By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Everybody loves a story about a boy and his dog. Even if they're both robots.
Tim-21 (boy) and Bandit (dog) are the stars of writer Jeff Lemire's new Image Comics series, Descender, whose first trade paperb
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ADAM.3 #1 (of 5)
Writer/Art/Cover: SCOTT KOLINS
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Award-winning writer/artist Scott Kolins (Past Aways, The Flash, The Avengers) premieres his first original comic book creation: ADAM.3! A man born into
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Frankenstein Underground #1 (of 5), comes out in March.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #2 comes out in April.
Cover by Mike Mignola. Copyright Dark Horse Comics.
Frankenstein Underground #3 comes o
Free Comic Book Day 2015: The Q&A!
By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Saturday, May 2, is Free Comic Book Day, an event which has become a first-Saturday-in-May tradition at most major comic shops since the first one in 2001. If you haven’t ev
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Tribune Content Agency
The publisher is calling it “DC You.” Various websites call it “the Batgirlization of DC.” Whatever you call it, it’s a welcome attempt to broaden the base of comics readership.
During the month of June, DC
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Tribune Content Agency
In the late 1940s and '50s, one of the best-selling comic books in America was titled Crime Does Not Pay. Ridiculous! Now, as then, crime pays pretty well -- at least in comics.
If you think about it, most
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Tribune Content Agency
The strength of some graphic novels, like the prose kind, is the power to make you think. Such is the case with Just So Happens by writer/artist Fumio Obata (Abrams ComicArts, $24.95).
The narrative is fai
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CONAN/RED SONJA (HC)
Writers: GAIL SIMONE, JIM ZUB
Art/Cover: DAN PANOSIAN
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Pencils: RANDY GREEN
Inks: RICK KETCHAN
FC, 96 pages, $19.99
HC, 7″ x 10″
Comics superstars Gail Simone and Jim Zub!
Gail Simone and Jim
Read more…This week's Comics Guide, painstakingly collated and annotated for your maximum reading pleasure, was deleted due to technical reasons that drive Captain Comics into a murderous rage when he thinks about them. So he's not going to think about them. I
Read more…Ultron (James Spader), an artificial intelligence, really, really, really, really hates his “father,” Tony Stark. Movie poster. Copyright Marvel 2015.
Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) are characters being share
Roy Thomas Presents: Sheena, Queen of the Jungle Volume One (PS Artbooks, $49.99) is the first of three volumes reprinting the complete Sheena title from the 1940s and '50s. Copyright PS Artbooks.
Bob Powell's Complete Cave Girl (Kitchen Sink, $49.9
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AGE OF REPTILES: ANCIENT EGYPTIANS #2 (OF 4)
I've enjoyed the first two issues, which have are basically Darwinian tales of survival, as various lizards vie for their next meal. There's been no explanation for the title as yet, so I must a
Read more…I've forgotten whether our Invaders expert Richard Mantle has recommended this or not. If he did, here it is!
ALL-NEW INVADERS VOL. 3: THE MARTIANS ARE COMING (TPB)
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Penciled by STEVE PUGH, BARRY KITS
Read more…I remember reading some A.B.C. Warriors back when Quality or somebody reprinted them for the U.S., and they weren't very good. This looks like it could be the next generation, so maybe it'll be better.
ABC WARRIORS RETURN TO MARS (HC)
Publisher: RE
Since the movie didn't answer many questions, maybe this series will!
ALIENS: FIRE AND STONE (TPB)
Publisher: DARK HORSE
Writer: CHRIS ROBERSON
Art: PATRIC REYNOLDS
Colors: DAVE STEWART
Cover: DAVID PALUMBO
FC, 104 pages, $14.99
TPB, 7″ x 10″
During
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DEATH HEAD #1 (of 6)
Writers: ZACK KELLER, NICK KELLER
Art: JOANNA ESTEP
Colors: KELLY FITZPATRICK
Cover: E. M. GIST
FC, 32 pages, $3.99
Miniseries
Who is the Plague Doctor? What does he want? And how will the family survive?
Zack K
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ARCHIE VS. PREDATOR #3 (of 4)
To tell you the truth, I'm a bit put off by the violence and death in this series. It was amazing when Archie and Punisher crossed over, mostly because nobody important in Riverdale got killed, and somehow the
Read more…Here's another Action Lab title starring a girl.They're turning into the most girl-friendly publisher around.
I haven't read it yet, but I plan to.
AERO GIRL #1
Publisher: ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: DEWAYNE FEENSTRA
Art: AXUR ENEAS
Cover: AXUR
Read more…The "main" cover to Star Wars #1, which has many, many variant covers. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
The "main" cover to Darth Vader #1, which will also have many variant covers, coming in February. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
The "m
Marvel Comics is supporting the film with a new Ant-Man series beginning this month, and this prose novel arriving in July. Copyright Marvel Entertainment Inc.
Ultron nearly destroyed humanity in the 10-issue, 2103 series Avengers: Age of Ultron, but
