Review: Morning Star #1
By Patrick Wolf
Massimo Rosi’s Morning Star is a creepy paranormal thriller about the shaky divide between Hell and Earth. While there’s nothing cutting-edge here, this series is scary, well-drawn, and exciting enough to keep you coming back for more. I’d recommend Morning Star to any fan of the horror genre.
Review: Batman: The Red Death #1
By Justin McCarty
The premise for this comic is pretty simple: Earth-52 Batman (Dark Knight Returns Batman) is fed up with his lack of progress with his war on crime. He has lost everyone he’s loved, and he’s had no success. He literally believes if he had the speed force he’d be able to do better. Batman spends the first half of the book fighting Flash for it. He rigs the cosmic treadmill to the Batmobile; his plan is to drive so fast he catches up to the speed force? It’s a superhero comic; I’ll let it go. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by saying he sort of gets what he wants. He and Flash merge, and Batman Red Death is born. This is an exceptionally dark take on Batman. He kills all the bad guys in his universe, then, after getting a little motivation from the Batman Who Laughs, he decides to take on Earth-0, where he goes full on evil.
Comic Bastards Podcast - 013
By Dustin Cabeal
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013 - I'm prepared this week! At least more than last week. This time around on the ole Comic Bastards Podcast it's all first issues! There are so many first issues that I couldn't remember them all or be bothered to cover them. Thanks for listening and please subscribe on iTunes or Google Play with the links below!
Valiant Announces Faith's Winter Wonderland Special
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Valiant is proud to announce FAITH’S WINTER WONDERLAND SPECIAL #1– a lavishly illustrated season's greeting featuring one of the beloved superheroes in comics today! On December 6th, bundle up as Eisner Award and Russ Manning Award-nominated artistic sensation Marguerite Sauvage (FAITH, DC Comics Bombshells) – one of the comic industry's fastest rising stars – takes the helm to write and illustrate the fanciful tale of Faith’s very first-holiday extravaganza!
MIKE CAREY IS JOINED BY ARTIST KENAN YARAR TO BRING DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT'S BARBARELLA TO COMICS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 35-YEARS
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Timed to coincide with the celebration of legendary heroine Barbarella's 55th anniversary, Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce that the iconic character's first-ever American comic series, and first new comic series in more than 35 years, is now set to feature the critically-acclaimed artistic stylings of Turkish artist Kenan Yarar (Hilal). Yarar joins writer Mike Carey (X-Men, Lucifer, The Girl with All the Gifts), and longtime Barbarella brand custodian and consulting editor Jean-Marc Lofficier, on the revolutionary new series slated for release this December!
New Liverpool based indie comic publishing house to launch at Thought Bubble
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2017, Liverpool: Cog Life Comics wages war against the mundane world, as they launch their first comic, Isolation, at this years Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival on 23rd September.
P M Buchan's HANGOVER at Thought Bubble 2017
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At Thought Bubble sequential art festival in Leeds, UK, 23 to 24 September 2017, look out for P M Buchan’s HANGOVER – a new anthology of horror and horror-comedy comic strips created by Buchan and a range of some of the world’s brightest emerging comic creators, including Martin Simmonds, artist of the upcoming IDW/Black Crown series Punks Not Dead, and Leonie O’Moore, recently featured in Heavy Metal Magazine, as well as acclaimed horror artists such as D W Frydendall, whose work has been featured in Dark Horse’s Creepy, Girls and Corpses Magazine and White Wolf’s The World of Darkness series.
Royden Lepp’s 'Rust' Concludes in February 2018 from BOOM! Studios
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BOOM! Studios is proud to announce Royden Lepp’s RUST VOL. 4: SOUL IN THE MACHINE, the final chapter to his critically acclaimed graphic novel series about a mysterious boy who suddenly appears on a farm struggling to survive after a long apocalyptic war and changes the fate of the family who runs it. Debuting in February 2018, this original graphic novel marks the first time the publisher has released both hardcover and softcover editions simultaneously in comic shops and bookstores.
Kittredge & Ingranata take on the WITCHBLADE
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All-female creative team—writer Caitlin Kittredge (THROWAWAYS, Coffin Hill) and artist Roberta Ingranata—join forces for an all-new story about one Alex Underwood, a journalist who thinks she’s seen it all… until she becomes the unlikely host to an ancient and powerful artifact known as the WITCHBLADE. The ongoing series—first co-created by Image Comics co-founder and partner, Marc Silvestri, with Brian Haberlin, Michael Turner, and David Wohl—is set to launch this December.
Limerence Press's 'Oh Joy Sex Toy' Secures Support From Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and The Magic Wand
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Limerence Press and Oni Press are proud to announce that Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan’s widely acclaimed Oh Joy Sex Toy, the free weekly sex education webcomic, has secured support from Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and The Magic Wand® personal massager.
New TOKYO GHOUL Manga Sequel - TOKYO GHOUL: RE - Debuts From VIZ Media
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VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, announces the sequel to the smash-hit horror/action manga series with the launch of TOKYO GHOUL: RE on October 17th.
‘DuckTales: Treasure Trove’ Graphic Novel Coming From IDW
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IDW Publishing, in conjunction with Disney Publishing, is bringing Scrooge McDuck and his young triplet great-nephews Huey, Dewey, Louie, plus Webby, back in a cleverly written, comic book series to coincide with Disney XD’s new animated comedy adventure series “DuckTales” debuting Saturday, September 23 with two new back-to-back episodes (7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 10:30 p.m., EDT).
AfterShock Comics Announces Monstro Mechanica
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A new series starring Leonardo da Vinci, his female apprentice, and their wooden robot!
At the height of the Renaissance, warring factions vie for control of Leonardo da Vinci’s destructive arsenal. The only thing standing in their way is Leonardo’s young apprentice and her nine-foot tall mechanical bodyguard. Together, they navigate a world of wicked men and war machines, determined to save Leonardo from the world—and the world from Leonardo.
Review: Language Barrier
By Oliver Gerlach
Hannah K. Lee’s Language Barrier is a collection that self-identifies as “zines, comics, and other fragments” on the cover. That’s an important piece of categorisation, as is the Koyama Press website’s description of it as “[an] art book”. This isn’t really a comic, and shouldn’t be treated like one. It’s a giant zine or a surreal art project or something like that. Yes, there are comics in it, but I wouldn’t call it a comic in itself. Whatever it is, though, it’s profoundly weird and unsettling, and doesn’t sit comfortably in any major category.
Review: Long Lost #1
By Zeb Larson
I’ll definitely say this for Long Lost: I finished the first issue and still wasn’t sure exactly how to pin down this particular book. It was initially pitched to me as a take on True Detective, but I’m not sure that particular piece of branding works in this case. If anything, it was more of an iGeneration take on Gothic Horror, as we (the reader) struggle to understand whether the malevolent entity in this story is something supernatural or the main character’s damaged psyche haunting them. To preserve the surprises, I'll be keeping this review spoiler-free.
Super S - Anime Podcast E.034
By Dustin Cabeal
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034 - Welcome back to the show, we have five episode of Welcome to the Ballroom to cover this time around so get ready to the Ballroom Beat! That's the bulk of the episode, but we still have time to talk about more anime of course.
Review: Sisco vol. 1 – Shoot When You’re Told
By Dustin Cabeal
When I was instantly drawn to the covers for Sisco while looking through izneo’s catalog of titles; something about the covers just kept me coming back to them. I didn’t read what Sisco was about because I don’t ever do that. I blindly read anything and everything as a reviewer because it allows me to see if the story’s plot comes through on its own rather than through a synopsis supplied by a publisher.
Review: Atar Gull
By Dustin Cabeal
Well, I was way wrong about the title of this comic on my latest podcast. The full title is Atar Gull or The Tale of the Model Slave. Which is more fitting than what I thought it was. Listen, reading stories about slaves shouldn’t be easy. This book doesn’t glorify slavery, but it does strangely attempt to humanize all of the people involved in slavery and not in a sympathetic way either.
Review: Saltlick #1
By Dustin Cabeal
Saltlick won’t be for everyone. It’s weird first and foremost, and it’s not attempting traditional storytelling. It’s just three strange stories with sometimes abrupt endings. The resolution you’ll get will come from your own enjoyment of the stories and not because the story ended. It’s damn weird, but I loved it.
Follow Your Heart With Seven Seas’ License of GO FOR IT, NAKAMURA! Manga
Press Release
Seven Seas Entertainment is proud to announce the license acquisition--both print and digital--of the manga Go For It, Nakamura! by Syundei, the hilarious boys’ love manga about one young man’s attempts to keep it together in front of his crush!
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