Sea of Sorrows
Rich Douek, writer; Alex Cormack, artist; Justin Birch, letterer
IDW, 2021
1926, and the aftermath of the Great War left rich salvage available in the North Atlantic Ocean. This five-issue miniseries follows the crew of the SS Vagabo
Read more…Night Mary
Rick Remender, story & script; Kieron Dwyer, story & art
Image Comics, 2022
This reprints an IDW five-issue miniseries from 2006, making it fairly early Remender (published around the time of Strange Girl and the first issues of Fear Age
Read more…Tales from Harrow County Volume 1: Death's Choir
Cullen Bunn, script; Naomi Franquiz, art, chapter breaks; Tyler Crook, lettering, variant covers
Dark Horse Books, 2020
Ten years have passed since the end of the Harrow County series. Emmy left the co
Read more…Killadelphia Vol. 2: Burn Baby Burn
Rodney Barnes, story; Jason Shawn Alexander, art; Louis Nct, color
Image Comics, 2021
The second installment finds Abigail Adams and her vampire band pursuing a different strategy than the one directed by ex-Preside
Read more…Family Tree Vol. 3: Forest
Jeff Lemire, writer; Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Ryan Cody, artists
Image Comics, 2021
The family drama/ecological horror series concludes here. It spends a lot of time in the present--five years after the big transformationa
Read more…Stillwater Vol. 2: Always Loyal
Chip Zdarsky, creator/writer; Ramón Pérez, creator/artist; Mike Spicer, colorist
Image Comics, 2022
The previous volume ended in chaos and confusion, the town courthouse blown up in a coup attempt. Ted's Marine budd
Read more…Hey Kids! Comics! Volume 2: Prophets & Loss
Howard Chaykin, writer & artist; Yen Nitro, colorist; Ken Bruzenak: letterer
Image Comics, 2022
Chaykin continues his faux-history of the comic book industry in this second (and final?) installment. Like th
Read more…Bone Orchard: The Passageway
Jeff Lemire, writer; Andrea Sorrentino, artist; David Stewart, colorist
Image Comics, 2022
The first book in Lemire and Sorrentino's new Bone Orchard Mythos is a brief, atmospheric tale very similar to their previous coll
Read more…Ascender Vol. 4: Star Seed
Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen, storytellers
Image Comics, 2021
Star Seed is the big conclusion not only to Ascender, but the whole Descender/Ascender saga (which began in 2015). Descender was set in a universe where robotics h
Read more…Road of Bones
Rich Douek, writer; Alex Cormack, art & colors; Justin Birch, letters
IDW Publishing, 2020
More historical horror by the same creative team who made Sea of Sorrows. This time the setting is the Siberian Gulag of Kolyma, and the year is
Read more…Snow Angels
Jeff Lemire, writer; Jock, artist & cover
Comixology Originals, 2021
Lemire and Jock told this story in the form of two Seasons, totaling almost 250 pages. It takes place in a stark, frozen dystopia, opening with a family skating down an
Read more…Ice Cream Man Vol. 7: Certain Descents
W. Maxwell Prince, writer; Martín Morazzo, artist; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2022
Might as well say up front that the seventh Ice Cream Man includes the title character only in the brief, mystical
Read more…Sea of Stars Vol. 2: The People of the Broken Moon
Jason Aaron & Dennis Hallum, writers; Stephen Green, artist; Rico Renzi, colorist
Image Comics, 2021
The second (and final) installment begins with Gil working to keep himself and the strange old sha
Read more…Killadelphia Vol. 1: Sins of the Father
Rodney Barnes, story; Jason Shawn Alexander, art; Luis Nct, color
Image Comics, 2020
Killadelphia is a vampire story with a unique hook. It begins when Baltimore cop Jimmy Sangster returns to his Philadelphia ro
Read more…Made in Korea
Jeremy Holt, story; George Schall, art; Adam Wollett, lettering
Image Comics, 2022
A Korean engineer makes a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence discovery, but realizing that he did it on company equipment he quickly moves to keep it f
Read more…Stillwater Vol. 1: Rage Rage
Chip Zdarsky, creator/writer; Ramón Pérez creator/artist; Mike Spicer, colorist
Image Comics, 2021
After getting fired from his job and beaten by a bouncer at a bar, Daniel is ready for a change of scene. Receiving a lette
Read more…The Good Asian Vol. 1
Pornsak Pichetshote, writer; Alexandre Tefenkgi, artist; Lee Loughridge, colorist; Jeff Powell, letterer & designer
Image Comics, 2021
This is a crime noir with a unique focus. The detective is Edison Hark, a Chinese-American
Read more…Canopus
Dave Chisholm, story & art
Scout Comics, 2021
Helen is an astronaut who comes to marooned on a planet orbiting the star Canopus, 309.8 light years from Earth. She has to get that information from her in-suit navigation system, because she doe
Read more…Underground
Jeff Parker, writer; Steve Lieber, illustrator; Ron Chan, colorist
Oni Press, 2021
I overlooked this when it was first published in 2010 by Image Comics, so I am glad that Oni Press reprinted it so I could catch up with it. The story stars
Read more…Nocterra Vol. 1: Full Throttle Dark
Scott Snyder, story; Tony S. Daniel, art; Tomeu Morey, colors
Image Comics, 2021
Another dystopian story, but with a generous helping of horror elements. The initiating event is the sudden onset of complete blackne
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