Book One shipped back in November and I liked it. I liked it so much, I started a "Black Lightning" thread to discuss the rest of the series. The thing is, I know now that only the first issue focuses on Black Lightning. I don't really know where the
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ALL EIGHT EYES #1 (OF 4)
Story: Steve Foxe | Art: Piotr Kowalski | Covers: James Stokoe | $3.99
Steve Foxe (Creepshow, Party & Prey, X-Men ‘92) and Piotr Kowalski (Where Monsters Lie, Bloodborne) present a new vision of creature-fea
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Sean Lewis, writer; Hayden Sherman, artist; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2023
Above Snakes is a supernatural Western, a rare genre indeed. The most recent example is writer Cullen Bunn and artist Brian Hurtt's The
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Joshua Williamson, writer; Andrei Bressan, artist; Adriano Lucas, colorist
Image Comics, 2023
The story begins in black and white. Arthur has just lost his job, and kills his wife in a rage. When he buries her in the d
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ABE SAPIEN DARK & TERRIBLE VOL 2 TP
ART OF PETER BERGTING HC
Art/Cover: Peter Bergting | $49.99
Dark Horse Books is proud to present a new, beautifully designed hardcover art book, The Art of Peter Bergting. Celebrating the award-wi
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HAIRBALL #1 (OF 4)
Story/Cover: Matt Kindt | Art: Tyler Jenkins | $5.99
Timed to National Cat Lover’s Month, Flux House and Dark Horse Comics are announcing HAIRBALL by bestselling writer Matt Kindt and artist Tyler Jenkins with col
Read more…Story So Ike Pearlmother Perlmutter is out, Marvel Entertainment is to be folded into larger Disney business units, and I don't know what it all means! Is it the real-life Marvel "Endgame"? Is it just a reorganization? Will worlds live? Will worl
Read more…Steve Skeates, Longtime Comic Writer and Hawk & Dove Co-Creator, Dies at 80
Steve Skeates, one of the first members of the so-called "second generation" of comic book writers, who had a long and distinguished comic book writing career at DC, Marvel,
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Author: Ian Fleming
Year published: 1958
THE PLOT
The station chief and his attractive assistant in Jamaica disappear, with most assuming they've run off together. M sends Bond to investigate, at least partially as a light vacation assign
Read more…Between 1987 and 2004, Fantagraphics Books published 50 softcover volumes of Hal Foster's masterpiece Prince Valiant from the beginning (February 13, 1937) through strip #2271 (August 17, 1980). In 2012, the same publisher began a rerelease of the sa
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BLUE BOOK #2 (OF 5)
COLONEL WEIRD AND LITTLE ANDROMEDA HC
EXISTENTIALLY CHALLENGED
From Yahtzee Croshaw (Differently Morphous, Mogworld, Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Jam), the creator of the Zero Punctuation gaming review series,
DARK HORSE COMICS
BIG GUY & RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT TP (2ND ED)
The Nice House on the Lake Vol. 2
James Tynion IV, writer; Álvaro Martínez Bueno, artist; Jordie Bellaire, colorist
DC Black Label, 2023
The story concludes here, or at least one aspect of it: the final panel says "end of CYCLE ONE." Given that the f
Read more…Joe Giella died on March 21, 2023, at the age of 94. He received the Inkpot Award in 1996. In 2016, he received the Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award at the Harvey Awards. In 2017, Giella was the Guest of Honor at the 2017 Inkwell Awards cer
Read more…MLJ clearly hit gold with Archie Andrews in 1941.
Not right away, of course. It did take a year or so for Bob Montana to finally land on the formula that lasted for more than 40 years.
But what was that formula? What was it about those initial charac
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Brian Michael Bendis, writer; David Mack, artist
Dark Horse Books, 2022
Collecting a DC Comics series from 2018-19 (and inspired by David Mack's work for the U.S. State Department as a cultural ambassador), Cover posits the recruitment
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MASTERS OF UNIVERSE: MASTERVERSE #2 (OF 4)
SPY SUPERB #3 (OF 3)
STAR WARS: HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES #3 (OF 8)
WHITE SAVIOR #3 (OF 4)
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
DARKWING DUCK #3
DRACULINA: BLOOD SIMPLE #2
MADBALLS VS GARBAGE PAIL KIDS
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Cullen Bunn, writer; Jonas Scharf, illustrator; Alex Guimarães, colorist
BOOM! Studios, 2022
The second arc begins with Hannah and Regan pursuing the remaining Chimera. Regan is opposed to it, but then she begins to hear voices: she h
Read more…Story Sounds as though the Batman series, at least, is being shopped around.
Read more…Ah, Bert I., Bert I. Bert I...What to say about Bert I. Gordon?
Was he the greatest director ever? Were his movies occasionally cheesy? Let's put it this way: eight of his movies - (King Dinosaur (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Ea
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