Review: Fowl Language: The Struggle Is Real
By Dustin Cabeal
This ended up being the second comic about parenting from the male perspective that I’ve read in as many weeks. Fowl Language has some chuckles for sure, but it wasn’t always wildly entertaining.
Review: Batman is Trustworthy
By Dustin Cabeal
Having read the previous two books in the Capstone/DC kids books, I decided to give it one more shot because I really would love a kids Batman book that I could share with my son. The same problem persists in Batman is Trustworthy as it did in Be A Star, Wonder Woman and Bedtime for Batman. The message isn’t subtle and the equivalent of me just telling my child to do something while showing them a picture of Batman and saying the word “Batman” over and over.
Review: Bettie Page #2
By Dustin Cabeal
After a lackluster first issue, I decided to give this series another shot. Unfortunately, it’ll be the last shot I give it. It’s not a bad comic. I’m not quitting it because the story is awful or because the artwork is unenjoyable. It’s just a boring comic book.
Review: One-Punch Man vol. 12
By Dustin Cabeal
If there’s a hotter franchise to come from Japan in the past few years, then I don’t know what it is. I have been approached by so many people regarding One-Punch Man due to the anime, that it shows that it’s transcended just being a manga.
Review: Southern Bastards #17
By Zeb Larson
Southern Bastards is finally back, after a long hiatus. Both Sebastian Girner, the series editor, and Jason Latour lost their fathers within a few weeks of each other, and understandably this pushed back publication of the book. But I’ll be selfish and won’t lie: it’s good, damned good, to finally have this series back. We’re in the middle of several different threads of narrative payoff even as new ones take their place. All of the different factions and people around Boss want him dead, and he’s running out of ways to make himself indispensable to them. For once, his biggest problem isn’t going to be what happens next on the gridiron.
Comic Bastards Podcast - 009
By Dustin Cabeal
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009 - Get ready for something different! This is not the return of the usual Comic Bastards Podcast that you may have been waiting for. Instead, it's something different. It's just me, Dustin, and I'm going to review some books... quickly. Okay, not that quick it turns out, but I will run through about seven or eight titles in what I hope will be a weekly show that I put together. Be sure to check out the video as well... it's me staring at the camera and doodling on the screen... enjoy?
Eisner Award Nominee Tonci Zonjic Covers the NINJA-K #1-4 PRE-ORDER EDITION BUNDLE
Press Release
Valiant is proud to announce the NINJA-K #1–4 PRE-ORDER EDITION BUNDLE – available only as a pre-order set to fans who reserve the first four issues of the next EXPLOSIVE ONGOING SERIES in the Valiant “ICONS” line-up! From acclaimed writer Christos Gage (Netflix’s Daredevil) and Valiant superstar Tomas Giorello (X-O MANOWAR), the NINJA-K #1-4 PRE-ORDER EDITION BUNDLE kicks off with a jam-packed 48-page debut and exclusive covers by Eisner Award-nominated artist Tonci Zonjic (Who is Jake Ellis?, Immortal Iron Fist) on each issue – all specifically reserved for fans who pre-order with their local comic shop by the initial order date (IOD) of September 28th, 2017!
Celebrate 25 glorious years of Lenore with Roman Dirge’s The Bloody Best of Lenore
Press Release
This September 19 sees the release of Roman Dirge’s THE BLOODY BEST OF LENORE - a selection of Lenore's funniest and most manically silly adventures collected together for the first time in a special hardcover edition! Celebrating 25 glorious years of Lenore: The Cute little Dead Girl, this fantastic collection comes with a brand-new cover by creator Roman Dirge, and includes a stunning embossed 4-D cover!
Guest Artist Benjamin Dewey Joins the RICK AND MORTY Team for One-Shot
Press Release
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub! Oni Press, Portland’s premier comic book publisher, is proud to announce that Milwaukie, Oregon native Benjamin Dewey (The Autumnlands, I Was The Cat) is bringing his watercolor and illustration talents to the interiors of Rick and Morty™ #30.
Review: Corsair #1
By Oliver Gerlach
Corsair #1, currently on Kickstarter, is an interesting piece of uniquely British horror work, for all the good and all the bad associated with that subgenre. It follows Agent Corsair, a man tasked with investigating the nastier side of the occult. It’s a sound, entertaining premise, with a lot of potential to explore a range of different aspects of both horror and Britain itself.
IndieGoGo: Shadow Draw – First Impressions
By Dustin Cabeal
It has been a long time since I talked about or posted a project that’s either on or coming to a crowd-funded platform. I’ll be honest with you all since I get asked all the time why I stopped (and likely the reason I’m cursed at in private) covering crowd funded projects, and the reason is that there’s just too damn many. I am one dude and to be quite honest the bulk of the requests I was given had no info and nothing for me to see and write about. It’s extremely difficult to help someone when you don’t know anything about their project other than the surface level stuff. It was difficult writing articles worth reading about projects I could hardly talk about. Soon enough, I was getting numerous requests for IndieGoGo/Kickstarter coverage, and it got to the point that I had to decide if I was covering comics or crowd funded projects. I choose comics.
Unboxing: Loot Crate - August 2017
By Dustin Cabeal
Hey, everyone! I'm trying something new today with the unboxing video so please give it a spin and let me know what you think of my unboxing of Loot Crate's August loot! But seriously there's some cool shit on there.
Unboxing: Simpsons Penny Skateboard
By Dustin Cabeal
Okay, I thought I would be able to do something cool with this board or at least make an unboxing video that didn't suck. I was wrong. In hindsight, I should have waited to film this, but here it is... I'm sorry, please don't hate it too much and if you like Penny Skateboards, know that this shit is cool as hell. Try to enjoy it.
Super S - Anime Podcast E.032
By Dustin Cabeal
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032 - Hey on this episode of Super S - Anime Podcast Lindsay got a gift... and it's of titanic proportions! AH, puns. It's a pretty painful episode of Lindsay with her two shows, but a nice batch for myself before we end on the Ballroom Beat! Also, we didn't realize how many episodes of Welcome to the Ballroom there was so we'll be changing that up some. Enjoy the show and please leave a comment or just a picture of someone giving a thumbs up!
Mech Cadet Yu Promoted to an Ongoing Series at BOOM! Studios
Press Release
After selling out the week of release at the distributor level (copies may still be available at local comic shops) and drawing rave reviews from all corners, BOOM! Studios is excited to announce that the MECH CADET YU limited series has been upgraded to an ongoing series.
Review: Scarlet Rose #1
By Oliver Gerlach
Scarlet Rose is an ongoing French series of comics, currently ten years into its run, but only newly available in English. Apparently very successful in France, it’s something of a shame that it’s taken so long to make it over here. It’s a thrilling child-friendly historical adventure about a girl, her sword, and her obsession with a highwayman known as The Fox.
VIZ Media Launches New Shojo Manga Series QUEEN'S QUALITY
Press Release
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, delivers the sequel to shojo manga creator Kyousuke Motomi’s acclaimed series, QQ SWEEPER, with the launch of QUEEN’S QUALITY on September 5th.
BOOM! Studios Challenges You to 'Fence'
Press Release
BOOM! Studios is thrilled to announce FENCE, an all-new original comic book series debuting in November from best-selling novelist C.S. Pacat (Captive Prince) and popular online sensation Johanna The Mad. Launching from the BOOM! Box imprint, FENCE brings together the worlds of teen soap opera with the adrenaline rush of competitive fencing, an exciting journey of self-discovery that challenges readers with one simple phrase: En garde!
Supernatural horror comics project "Box of Bones" coming summer 2018
Press Release
Rosarium Publishing is proud to announce its latest comics project, Box of Bones, by Ayize Jama-Everett (The Liminal People, The Entropy of Bones) and Eisner Award winner, John Jennings (Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, Blue Hand Mojo: Hard Times Road).
VIZ Media Launches Hilarious NARUTO Manga Spin-Off
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, announces the launch of NARUTO: CHIBI SASUKE'S SHARINGAN LEGEND, a hilarious spin-off of the world’s most popular ninja manga series, NARUTO, on September 5th.
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By Justin McCarty
I picked up Transdimensional having no prior knowledge of the subject. Not even the Kickstarter description. If I had, I probably would have skipped it. I am probably one of five comics fans that don't get into sci-fi horror. The Kickstarter describes the comic as being a sci-fi horror in the same family as Alien and The Abyss. I’ve seen Alien maybe (just the one - sad face from you probably), not The Abyss. I wasn’t the proper audience for this comic. However, if I was into this type of story, I could see its appeal.