If you missed Free Comic Book Day on May 5, you may be able to get some leftovers form your kind comics retailer. Otherwise, you can at least grab Dark Horse’s offerings this year as their two flipbooks are now available for download. DARK HORSE FREE COMIC BOOK DAY COMICS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FOR LIMITED TIME! If [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #90-Grand Finale!
57 mins. Yes, it’s the big finish, our fond farewell, our last hurrah. In our most rambling episode yet, we talk about a bunch of comics, Turok, the master of sit-com theme songs, an awkward Italian song contest, David Bowie’s wife, Michael Jackson as Spider-Man, alternate cinematic realities, and much more! Fare thee well and [...]
Free Comic Book Day 2012
It’s that time again! The annual, worldwide event that is Free Comic Book Day. Most comic shops take part, so why not see The Avengers and head on down, and bring a friend, or your kids, to discover the wonder of sequential art. Here’s a look at me with a few of this year’s goodies, and here’s [...]
Top Shelf and Dark Horse Digital Sale
I forgot to mention this a couple of days ago, but Top Shelf are having a huge digital sale. Make the most of it. There’s also two new, and cheap, digital comics, and to make it a hat trick, Top Shelf are also giving the curious a free sampler. Official lowdown of all these cheap [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #89-Fave Comic Book Films
70 mins. How many movies based on comic books have there been in the last few years? Heaps. How many of them have been awesome? Far less. We offer our ten fave films, and not many of our selections feature superheroes! Also, Katrina and the Waves, and a dancing Emperor Palpatine. LISTEN TO IT BELOW [...]
The Avengers Review
As a DC Comics fan, at least until lately when they unnecessarily rebooted their entire line, I was always hoping to see a Justice League film on the big screen. Alas, it looks like that won’t be happening for a long time. The Avengers will do very nicely however. Effectively, it is now the template [...]
Extermination from BOOM! Studios
Here’s the press release about a June launching series from BOOM! Studios, plus the variant covers, and four text-free preview pages. Looks pretty good, and intense. BOOM! STUDIOS LAUNCHES EXTERMINATION, ALL-NEW ORIGINAL ONGOING SERIES WRITTEN BY SIMON SPURRIER. FULL FIRST ISSUE ONLY $1. This June, BOOM! Studios launches EXTERMINATION, an all-new ongoing super-hero thriller written by Simon Spurrier (X-CLUB, FEAR [...]
Marathon Review
This was a pleasant surprise. Coming in June from First Second is this great historical adventure tale form Boaz Yakin and Joe Infurnai. Here’s my rather glowing review.
Extra Sequential Podcast #88-Are Superheroes Relevant?
58 mins. We examine the role superheroes play, what stories they can tell, and how far they’ve come since their roots from the pulp era. Also, multiple Boba Fetts, and Jean-Claude Van Damme vs a pinata. LISTEN TO IT BELOW DOWNLOAD IT HERE GET IT ON iTUNES You can email us at kris (at)extrasequential(dot)com and [...]
Grim Leaper from Image
Next month, another Image series with a high concept launches. Grim Leaper is from Kurtis J. Wiebe, the writer of the acclaimed Green Wake, and Peter Panzerfaust. The name, and cover are cool too. SHADOWLINE TAKES A LEAP GRIM LEAPER, new series from PETER PANZERFAUST creator in May At the beginning of the new Image [...]
Spike and Willow at Dark Horse Comics
They’ve been publishing the official Buffy adventures for years now, and recently created the Angel and Faith series. Now, Dark Horse Comics are giving blonde vampire Spike (in space?!), and witch Willow a new home. Both series were just announced at the C2E2 convention. Lowdown below, and covers by Jo Chen and David Mack. Dark [...]
Avengers, X-Men and Nightwing
Yay! Pretty pictures. First up, here’s a text-free look at next month Avengers vs X-Men extravaganza from Marvel. Your First Look At AVX: VS #2– An AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Tie-In! Marvel is proud to present your first look at, AVX: VS #2, the explosive, no holds barred, action packed tie-in to the smash-hit blockbuster event of the [...]
Freedom #1 Review
This was one of those items I saw in the Previews catalogue 2 months ago and ordered on a whim. Hopefully it benefitted from a few nice words at Bleeding Cool and Diamond, and others did the same. Freedom is published by Potato Comics and created by Seamus Heffernan. It’s also the recipient of a grant [...]
Sea Lion Books Previews
Relatively new publisher Sea Lion Books seem to be flying under the radar, which is unfortunate, as they have some good looking comics on the way. Here’s a few to show what I mean, starting with the release of this week’s Hush, Hush, which is a 120 page OGN and is described thusly… For Nora [...]
