Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/26/17

Review: Night Owl Society #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Well, I’ll say this about Night Owl Society, it’s extremely different from the vast majority of titles that IDW publishes. It also seems like their stab at getting their own Breakfast Club-esc story that’s primed and ready for the CW. Also, just because it’s different from what they usually publish, doesn’t mean it’s instantly better.

Jonathan Edwards 4/14/17 Jonathan Edwards 4/14/17

Review: Helena Crash #2

By Jonathan Edwards

I was somewhat surprised by Helena Crash #2. The first issue was by no means bad, but there wasn't necessarily that much to it either. We got a sense of the world, a general idea of Helena's character, and a little bit of plot at the end. It was enough to want to see what happens next, but I had yet to be really hooked. To be completely honest, this one didn't completely do that either. However, what it did do was build interestingly off of what we saw last time, and it got me more thoroughly engaged from the get go.

Jonathan Edwards 4/5/17 Jonathan Edwards 4/5/17

Review: Darkness Visible #3

By Jonathan Edwards

This was an odd direction to go with the third issue. We'd just finished setting the stage for Daniel Aston's story to really kick off. But now, instead of doing that, we're being yanked back in time to World War II so we can learn how the Shaitan came to co-exist with humans in modern Britain. It's not like that an inherently bad or uninteresting concept, I just don't see any good reason for doing it now. Especially when there doesn't appear to be any real connection to the main story. It's just "yep, this is how it happened." That being said, it's not a bad issue in and of itself.

Press Release 4/3/17 Press Release 4/3/17

Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo Reunite This July

Coming this summer, two decades after their last encounter, comic book universes collide as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles step foot into the world of Usagi Yojimbo in a special one-shot comic.

Press Release 4/1/17 Press Release 4/1/17

IDW Partners with Ominous Press for Launch of Publishing Line

IDW Publishing announces a partnership with OMINOUS PRESS to bring a new line of epic adventure comics to the market. The brainchild of comic art master Bart Sears, Ominous Press will tell stories of larger-than-life heroes and villains in fantasy and science-fiction settings.

Dustin Cabeal 4/1/17 Dustin Cabeal 4/1/17

Black Crown Debut Title and Creators Revealed

Earlier this month, Shelly Bond made headlines when she announced BLACK CROWN, her new creator-owned imprint during IDW’s ECCC panel. She’s back at it again, this time at WonderCon, with juicy details to divulge about how Black Crown is taking shape, and she’s invited Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler to headline the imprint’s debut.

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Gabriel Rodriguez Launching New Creator-Owned Comic

IDW Publishing has been proud to publish award-winning artist Gabriel Rodriguez’s work over the years, and it is with great honor and excitement to announce that he will be launching his first creator-owned series as writer and artist, Sword of Ages, in October.

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George Takei Graphic Novel Coming From IDW Publishing

Pop culture icon and man of the people, George Takei, has signed a book publishing deal with IDW Publishing. Together, they will produce a graphic novel, developed under Takei’s guidance, re-examining the Japanese American internment camps during WWII through his family’s firsthand experience.

Levi Remington 3/29/17 Levi Remington 3/29/17

Review: Animal Noir #2

By Levi Remington

Manny Diamond, the detective giraffe, interviews a former star, partners up with a passionate activist, and inspects a snuff-film theater in search of his uncle's wife's missing "prey fantasy" hunt tape. This ambitious Euro-inspired comic ditches the anthropomorphic approach and thrusts primal animals into a hardboiled narrative, but its half-boiled attempts leave us instead with an unpleasant simmer. Read ahead for my complete thoughts on this week's issue of Animal Noir.

Dustin Cabeal 3/22/17 Dustin Cabeal 3/22/17

Shannon Wheeler Presents SH*T MY PRESIDENT SAYS: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump

By Dustin Cabeal

I'll support it. I mean I hate to support anything with Trumpy's name on it, but I like supporting anything with Shannon Wheeler's name on it. I also expect several volumes of this unless we get lucky and Trumpy gets impeached. Anyway, if it's half as good as Wheeler's rejected New Yorker strips, then we're all in for a treat.

Jonathan Edwards 3/22/17 Jonathan Edwards 3/22/17

Review: Helena Crash #1

By Jonathan Edwards

Helena Crash is a book I very likely would've skipped if I weren't reviewing comics on a weekly basis. The premise is high concept enough to draw attention, but it's only a shallow hook and not enough to make me really want to drop the $3.99 to find out more. At the same time, that's kind of what made me want to read and review it. After all, sometimes it takes looking where you normally wouldn't to find the hidden gems. And after reading through this first issue, I am glad I picked it. While not necessarily anything special, Helena Crash is an enjoyable read that doesn't take itself too seriously, nor does it make everything into a joke.

Press Release 3/20/17 Press Release 3/20/17

IDW Publishing To Release Lynn Johnston’s ‘For Better or For Worse’ in Complete Library Editions

Welcome back, Elly, John, and the entire Patterson family as IDW Publishing and the Library of American Comics proudly announce For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library by Lynn Johnston. These definitive hardcover editions will collect the entire series in nine volumes, three books per decade of the strip.

Jonathan Edwards 3/15/17 Jonathan Edwards 3/15/17

Review: Darkness Visible #2

By Jonathan Edwards

The first issue of this book left me of two minds. Primarily, I quite enjoyed it. Even the story beats did get somewhat by-the-book, they're at least used to build an interesting world and characters. Alternatively, the story has a fairly strong overtone of social commentary, but it's not entirely evident what that commentary is. With all of the hatred of demons shown by the human characters, you'd think the main issue would be racism. However, the use of the Islamic term "Shaitan" for the demons, describing them as being made up of energy (which one could argue is the real-world equivalent of "smokeless fire"), and someone literally criticizing Muslims on the first page, makes Islamophobia just as likely, if not more, to be the intended target. Of course, it could just as easily be both and then some, rather than one or the other. But, it could also be neither, as the Shaitan are portrayed as not particularly trustworthy and/or benevolent beings. I only bring this up at the beginning of the review because it was still rolling around the back of my mind when I started reading this issue.

Laramie Martinez 3/6/17 Laramie Martinez 3/6/17

Review: Judge Dredd - Annual 2017

By: Laramie Martinez

It’s cliché, but I’m going to say it anyway. Science fiction has nothing to do with the future, it’s all about the now. Sometimes it’s a warning, other times it a thought experiment, but there is another aspect, one that I think gets overlooked and goes a little under appreciated. It’s when science fiction is a protest. And at it’s heart I think Judge Dredd has always had a little bit of rabble rousing in it’s system. This annual gets that. It has everything I want in a Judge Dredd comic. Split into three stories, this issue is a fantastic clash of situations which make science fiction and Judge Dredd great.

Dustin Cabeal 3/5/17 Dustin Cabeal 3/5/17

IDW To Make Comics On Hasbro Board Games... First Up Clue

By Dustin Cabeal

By and large, I have no interest in this, but I will say that it's disappointing that they're not even using the young and hip revamped characters as seen on the current version of the game. Yeah, that's right, I clue, I'm a cluer... that's what we call ourselves... now.

Press Release 3/5/17 Press Release 3/5/17

Shelly Bond Heads To IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce the arrival of Shelly Bond to its editorial ranks. One of the most respected and admired editors among her peers, Bond previously served as VP-Executive Editor of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. With over two decades of comic-industry experience to draw from, Bond’s considerable skills and keen eye for talent will pave the way for exciting new projects and original voices.

Dustin Cabeal 3/3/17 Dustin Cabeal 3/3/17

Everyone Is Shitting Their Pants Over The Underwater Welder Movie Produced By Ryan Gosling

By Dustin Cabeal

The story wasn't the good and was very predictable. I'm sure it'll do well for everyone involved.

Dustin Cabeal 3/1/17 Dustin Cabeal 3/1/17

Review: Cosmic Scoundrels #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Whenever I read a comic that I end up not liking there’s one line that repeats over and over in my head. It’s from The IT Crowd, and it goes a little something like this, “It’s not for you Jen.” That, of course, is the best way to present my thoughts on Cosmic Scoundrels #1.

Dustin Cabeal 2/24/17 Dustin Cabeal 2/24/17

IDW To Release Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four Artists Edition

IDW Publishing continues to celebrate the King of Comics’ centennial birthday, this time with the forthcoming release of Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four World’s Greatest Artist’s Edition. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee crafted what is considered to be one of the greatest runs ever in comic book history and this volume makes a solid case to bestow that honor on it!

Dustin Cabeal 2/22/17 Dustin Cabeal 2/22/17

There Can Be Only One: IDW Publishing (2/22/17)

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ll be honest, I’ve avoiding doing this for IDW because I don’t enjoy the majority of their titles and didn’t want to suffer through them. I figured that this was a good week to go through them all since they had so many new titles and one of those new titles is Highlander, which is where the title of this review derives.