Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17 Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17

Review: Lola XoXo v2 #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Siya Oum’s Lola XoXo is a beautiful comic. It’s one that you could easily look at for days and days because of how gorgeous everything is and not just the title character of Lola. The world it creates is fairly interesting as well, a kind of post-apocalyptic world, but not in the vein of Mad Max. More like that terrible TV show Revolution, but only in the setting and style.

Jonathan Edwards 7/12/17 Jonathan Edwards 7/12/17

Review: Mighty Mouse #2

By Jonathan Edwards

I was not impressed by the first issue of Mighty Mouse. It was an entirely by-the-book endeavor that failed to justify a version of 2017 where a grade-schooler loves Mighty Mouse almost as much as it failed to justify a new Mighty Mouse comic in our version of 2017. I still gave it a decent rating. Because, I could still see someone reading and enjoying it for some quick and cheap fun. All that being said, I did find one way this book could redeem itself, and that is the explanation of how the hell Mighty Mouse was transported between worlds. Unfortunately, we don't get that in this issue either, but we do get a couple other interesting ideas, or at least executions, instead.

Daniel Vlasaty 7/12/17 Daniel Vlasaty 7/12/17

Review: Regression #3

By Daniel Vlasaty

I’ve been a horror fan for almost as long as I can remember. It started when I was eight or nine when my mom introduced me to horror movies like Rosemary’s Baby and Poltergeist and The Return of the Living Dead. I remember we used to go to the video store every Friday on our way home and we’d both pick out one horror movie and we’d watch them over the weekend and see who picked the better one. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. Most of them were probably movies an eight or nine-year-old kid should not be watching but whatever. Lately, though, I think I’ve gotten kind of bored with the genre. I haven’t really been excited about anything horror related (movies/books/comics) in a long time. Cullen Bunn and Danny Luckert’s Regression is a book that is breaking through that slump. I’m not going to go so far as to say that it’s rekindled my love for the genre, but it’s a solid, creepy-crawly offering in a genre oversaturated with crap, in my opinion.

Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17 Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17

Review: Mage: The Hero Denied #0

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ve never read any of the Mage series, but I remember it fondly from Wizard magazine from back in the day. They seemed to like it, and since I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve ever ready by Matt Wagner, well, it seemed like a no-brainer to check out.

Benjamin Snyder 7/12/17 Benjamin Snyder 7/12/17

Review: Kill or Be Killed #10

By Ben Snyder

The plot thickens in a mostly calm but emotion-packed issue in Kill or Be Killed #10 as Dylan grapples with the consequences of his crusade and the impact it has on himself and those around him. While in this issue we get back in touch with the task force in charge of capturing and arresting Dylan, issue #10 continues to toy with the much more interesting plot point of the origin of the Demon: Is he real or a hallucination?

Benjamin Snyder 7/12/17 Benjamin Snyder 7/12/17

Review: Dread Gods #1

By Ben Snyder

In a ruined and impoverished world, most people can’t live like a God necessarily. But they can live through them. That is the premise that Dread Gods #1 establishes and while not entirely novel, I couldn’t put down the first issue. The action is gory and fluid, the writing is hammy but effective, while not a perfect issue Dread Gods #1 leaves me craving more in the best way possible.

Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17 Dustin Cabeal 7/12/17

Review: Godshaper #4

By Dustin Cabeal

I rarely pay any attention to solicits. They tend to just be giant spoiler sellers, but that also means that I rarely know how many issues a series is expected to run if it’s not on the cover. BOOM! varies a bit, but the majority of their mini-series run four issues which would mean we would be there. Clearly, that’s not the case since this issue sets up the story for more. Again, I don’t actually want or need a comment telling me how long the series is running for because it’s an intentional ignorance. Too many reviews give a series a pass because “Well it only had four issues” or worse, “It was originally supposed to be six.” What’s there is all I have to go on, and I won’t make excuses for a title.

Dustin Cabeal 7/11/17 Dustin Cabeal 7/11/17

Darby Pop Publishing Releases Deluxe Editions of Two Sold-Out TPB’s, Indestructible and Side-Kicked

Press Release

To celebrate their first month as a truly independent comic book studio sans distribution partnerships, Darby Pop Publishing will release Deluxe Editions of two of their previously sold-out trade paperbacks, Indestructible: Not So Much Vol. #1 Deluxe TPB and Side-Kicked Vol. 1.5 TPB -- each now featuring an additional 22 pages of story.