So the boss had me work another six-day week. It's getting to be a habit! So bear with me if I'm more confused than usual. Here what I had time for this week:
• ALL-STAR BATMAN #8
• AMERICAN GODS: SHADOWS #1
• ARCHIE #18
• THE ASSIGNMENT VOLUME 1
•
Read more…Satellite Sam Volume One
Matt Fraction, writer; Howard Chaykin, artist
Image Comics, 2014
I knew I'd had this eComic for awhile, but I had no idea it had been this long. Fraction and Chaykin created a B&W noir mystery story set in the early years o
Read more…FIVE BOOKS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
BLOODSHOT U.S.A #1 (of 4)
Publisher: VALIANT COMICS
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover C by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover D by RYAN STEGMAN
Cover E by CULLY HAMNER
Read more…Only one Marvel #1 this week:
Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider #1 - Ben attempts to create a new life in Las Vegas after the Clone Conspiracy Story by Peter David, art by Mark Bagley.
I wasn't reading comics during the initial Clone Saga, so I have no act
Phonogram Volume 3: The Immaterial Girl
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie, artist; Matthew Wilson, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2016
The long-delayed conclusion to the Phonogram series, with the focus shifted to music videos. P
Read more…REVIEWS: REBIRTH AND BEYOND!
ACTION COMICS #963
Publisher: DC COMICS
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER
Cover by CLAY MANN and SETH MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
“WHO IS CLARK KENT?” part 1!
Look -- dow
Read more…FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics Vol. 3: Audeamus
Simon Oliver, writer; Alberto Ponticelli, artist; Rico Renzi, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2015
Volume 2 left off with a helicopter sent by the mysterious Mr. Blackwood. But before that story resumes, we ge
Read more…Roughneck
Jeff Lemire
Gallery 13 Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), 2017
Jeff Lemire returns to the Canadian setting of his early masterpiece Essex County with Roughneck, a story that initially focuses on retired (and disgraced) hockey star D
Read more…ACTION COMICS #974
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by PATRICK ZIRCHER, STEPHEN SEGOVIA and ART THIBERT
Cover by CLAY MANN
Variant cover by GARY FRANK
32 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
This issue will ship with two covers.
“MILD MANNERED” part two! The mys
Read more…The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Presented by Sonny Liew
Pantheon Books, 2015
Sonny Liew is known as a comics artist, having illustrated The Shadow Hero with Gene Luen Yang, My Faith in Frankie with Mike Carey, and the latest DC Doctor Fate series wit
Read more…NIGHT OF THE MONSTER MEN
Since almost all of DC's superhero line has been Rebirthed, it seems pointless to single them out every week now. But here's a new crossover that involves three Rebirthed titles. Given that "Monster Men" were what Hugo Strang
Read more…Sex Criminals: Big Hard Sex Criminals Hardcover
Matt Fraction, author; Chip Zdarsky artist
Image Comics, 2015
Sex Criminals was such a runaway hit that the first ten issues were given the deluxe hardcover treatment (in addition to the trade paperbac
Read more…The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 4: Rising Action
Kieron Gillen, writer; Jamie McKelvie, artist; Matthew Wilson, colourist; Clayton Cowles, letterer
Image Comics, 2016
Newly created goddess Persephone was apparently killed at the end of the previous ar
Read more…BOOKS OF NOTE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #21
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Writers: DAN SLOTT & CHRISTOS GAGE
Art: GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant Cover by TBA
32 PGS. • Rated T • $3.99
A CLONE CONSPIRACY TIE-IN!
THE RETURN OF CARRION puts the Scarl
Read more…The Sheriff of Babylon, Volume 1: Bang. Bang. Bang.
Tom King (Writer); Mitch Gerads (Artist)
Vertigo Comics, 2016
The setting is Baghdad, 2004; the story begins ten months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam Hussein is gone, and American occupying fo
Read more…Starve Vol. 2
Brian Wood, writer; Danijel Zezelj, artist; Dave Stewart, colorist
Image, 2016
In Vol. 1 celebrity chef Gavin Cruikshank got drawn back into his cooking game show Starve after years of self-imposed exile. In the process he had to fac
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MORE PRESS RELEASES
A&A: THE ADVENTURES OF ARCHER AND ARMSTRONG #8
Written by RAFER ROBERTS
Art by MIKE NORTON with DAVID LAFUENTE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by DAVID LAFUENTE
Variant Cover by BRIAN LEVEL
Variant C
Read more…ACTION COMICS #959
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art by TYLER KIRKHAM
Covers by CLAY MANN
Variant covers by RYAN SOOK
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
These issues will ship with two covers.
“PATH TO DOOM” Chapter Three: Clark Kent gets caught in the crossfire
Read more…Roche Limit: Vol. 1
Michael Moreci (Writer), Vic Malhotra (Illustrations)
Image Comics, 2015
Well, it was bound to happen eventually: an Image series that is almost a complete dud. It's built on an intriguing sci-fi concept. Roche Limit is a colony
Read more…JUNE 8, 2016
FIRST ISSUE ALERT
4001 A.D.: BLOODSHOT #1
Publisher: VALIANT COMICS
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover A by RYAN LEE
Cover B by CAFU
Character Design Variant by RYAN LEE
Interlocking Mega-Cover Variant by RYAN LEE
$3.9
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