Vampires and zombies are the darlings of pop culture at the moment, and regarding the former, Dark Horse have you covered. I must say, the Horse are publishing some superb horror titles right now and they always have a new, accessible series on the go. Dark Horse Does Vampires Right Digital Sampler If you’ve got [...]
Michael Midas Champion
Next month a new all-ages series debuts from former Batman editor Jordan B. Gorfinkel. The pic below looks awesome, and the premise sounds cool too. BOOM Studios Presents MICHAEL MIDAS: CHAMPION! Behind Every Cape And Cowl There’s A Human Side. This June, BOOM! Studios is proud to announce MICHAEL MIDAS CHAMPION by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Scott [...]
Captain Marvel #1 Preview
Ms. Marvel gets a new costume, a promotion to Captain, and a new series starting in July. Here’s a text-free preview of her debut ish. Introducing The All-New CAPTAIN MARVEL! This July, take flight as Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Captain Marvel #1! From the creative team of fan-favorite writer Kelly Sue [...]
Grab DC’s FCBD Issues
If you missed DC Comics Free Comic Book Day offerings two weeks ago, now you can grab them both right here. There’s the New 52 comic, and the all-ages sampler. Go for it! Whether in print or digital, these are two books you want in your collection. The New 52 FCBD Special Edition boasts an [...]
Empire’s Top Ten Female Avengers
Film mag/site Empire has a list of ten female Avengers they’d like to see in the sequel. There’s Moondragon, Tigra, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk and others only comics fans would know about. Oh, and also Miss Piggy. Um…yeah. Seeing as The Avengers has now made over a billion dollars and is the 9th highest grossing film [...]
Unmasked, and Dancer Reviews
Catch two recent reviews of mine at Broken Frontier, including the sleazy supervillainy of Unmasked #1, and the new surprise thriller mini-series Dancer, from Image.
Dark Avengers #175 Preview
The Dark Avengers are back in June. Text-free preview below. Your First Look At The ALL-NEW DARK AVENGERS #175! This June, prepare for an all-new brand of justice as the fan favorite creative team of Jeff Parker and Declan Shalvey bring fans a new line-up of Earth’s Deadliest in Dark Avengers #175! Featuring the Dark Scarlet [...]
Gestalt’s The Deep Wins Aurealis Award
Massive congrats to Gestalt, Tom Taylor and James Brouwer as The Deep: Here Be Dragons won the Aurealis Award for best OGN, and very well deserved, I say. This is the second time running Gestalt have won, and it’s a testament to the grand and diverse work they’re doing. Needless to say, if you haven’t [...]
Scar, and The Art of War Interviews
Now at Broken Frontier are two recent interviews of mine. I spoke to writer Edmund Shern on his work on the Scar webcomic, which is part of the new ShiftyLook site that re-imagines classic arcade games as webcomics. I also interviewed the pair behind the thrilling OGN, The Art of War to be released in July [...]
The Almighties #1 Review
Here’s my review of The Almighties, an Avengers parody. Check out some preview pages below, and free pages called Almighties Origins at the official site.
This Week’s Winners
Time for three quick reviews, although this first one came out last week. X-O Manowar #1. Valiant was one of a few publishers that launched in the 90s and Naughties but didn’t last. Now, they’re back, with this title as the first off the rank, and familiar series Harbinger, Bloodshot, and Archer & Armstrong on [...]
Invincible Iron Man #518 Preview
Text-free, and with some panels classified, Marvel is teasing a new Iron Man under a new iron mask. It wouldn’t be the first time someone other than Tony Stark has been Iron Man of course, with his best mate James Rhodes taking a turn before he became War Machine, and even Pepper Potts became the [...]
Holliday Interview
At Broken Frontier here, you can read my interview with writer Nate Bowden and artist Doug Dabbs. They are the creators of Holliday, an OGN that is released later this month, and is an entertaining crime tale that re-imagines Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and other Wild West gunslingers in the 21st century.
Siegfried Trailer
Archaia are known for producing great looking OGNs, and Siegfried from creator Alex Alice, certainly fits that bill. Below is the new trailer for the first book, which has had success in France and has now been translated for us English speakers. In fact we devoted an entire episode of the Extra Sequential podcast to [...]
