By Justin McCarty

This installment of Eugenic is a much smaller story than the first issue. This is a story of young idealists and their dissent. The Numans have risen to power and humans are no longer the top of the food chain. In fact, humans are now considered to be no better than any other animal. In this issue, we get to a distinctly dystopian view of society. Can a society designed to be perfect still be evil? 

By Daniel Vlasaty

Rock Candy Mountain has been one of my favorite books of the year. In it, Kyle Starks has created a world that is weird and full of history and life – and hobos, bums, tramps, and Satan. He’s decided to focus the attention of the book on a population and community that is never really looked at favorably, either in fiction or in the real world. I don’t really know where I’m going with this, other than to say Rock Candy Mountain with issue #5 is back, my dudes, and I am super freaking excited about that.

By Cat Wyatt

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32 continues Bats Out of Hell plot, bringing us None More Black. The events in this issue take place during Dark Nights: Metal, bringing us back to the Multiverse. In this issue, the events that occur are split into two different times, “then” and “now.” Then appears to be before everything went downhill, while now is showing us with our heroes either in a fight or rapidly losing it.

By Ben Snyder

In Royal City #7, Jeff Lemire finally begins to reveal his intentions with the character of Thomas Pike. Throughout the series so far, every member of the Pike clan pasted their expectations and hopes onto the lost soul that was Tommy. In entry #7, Lemire does a great job of showcasing this while also introducing Tommy’s new role as a broadcasting center of sorts.

By Cat Wyatt

Batman: Lost is a Dark Nights: Metal tie-in, and being that it is issue #1 it has the luxury of starting where it wants to. In this case that is showing us Bruce Wayne at the ripe old age of 78, settling down to read a story to his granddaughter. Seeing Bruce act so parental should probably set off some sort of alarm bells for any Batman fan, for surely something deeper is going on here.

By Oliver Gerlach

Clonsters #1, written by Amy and Pat Shand and illustrated by Vanessa Cardinali, is an odd creation. The title is short for Clay Monsters, and the book itself is based on the clay creatures made by Amy Shand, creator of the concept. A comic based on somebody’s Etsy store is not something I ever expected to read, but this is one that clearly has an enormous amount of affection put into it.

By Patrick Wolf

This is, without a doubt, one of the worst titles I’ve read all year. Loaded with pretentious language, exposition, plot-holes, stock characters, and new age religious nonsense, I can’t believe anyone could enjoy this drivel. Normally, I try to be as charitable as possible whenever reviewing an indie series, but there’s no way I can endorse this one. With the exception of the art, there’s nothing good about this and the only way I’d recommend it to anyone is if that person was either a new-age hippy or just some guy I don’t like.

By Oliver Gerlach

Blood of Gods #1, by Erick Dominguez and Jake Bilbao, is a big loud fantasy comic about a world where demigods (or, in this case, “divine breed”) walk the earth and have magical powers. It’s got swords and dragons and large muscular bearded men who yell a lot. So far, so generic fantasy.

By Dustin Cabeal

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019 - This week is an audio-only podcast, but looking at the low amount of views I might just be doing an audio podcast going forward. I'm sick as hell this week and not in a rock'n'roll kinda way. Also, I'm shaking things up by talking about Bendis signing to DC and Disney attempting to buy Fox.  I ran long and reviewed three books as well.

Comics/manga covered on this episode:

• Prison School vol. 8
• Umami #1
• Kid Lobotomy #2

Press Release

If you think comic book readers and retailers were outraged about Captain America being a Nazi in the pages of Marvel Entertainment’s SECRET EMPIRE event, wait til they get their hands on UnPresidential, the new graphic novel from Man Vs Rock. In the sure-to-be controversial book, Kim Jong Un runs for President of the United States…. And wins.