Mouse Guard: The Black Axe HC
A worthy addition to an already accomplished and critically lauded franchise. Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, from Archaia Studios Press, collects the six-part limited series of the same name written…
A worthy addition to an already accomplished and critically lauded franchise. Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, from Archaia Studios Press, collects the six-part limited series of the same name written…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…
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The North of England in the Nineties and teenage student Iris’s life is fast becoming defined by her experimentation with drugs in Mardou’s slice-of-lifer from Yam Books… Last year I…
An instant bat-classic without the bat, Zero Year brilliantly exploits the messy, mistake-riddled path to adulthood. And in Batman #22, young Bruce Wayne’s screw-ups are a runaway freight train about…
Over 20 years in the making, sci-fi legend Harlan Ellison and Paul Chadwick’s cosmic Magnificent Seven bends reality even as it seeks to expand your consciousness. There are few storytellers…
Ballistic is an explosive adventure from page one to the book’s end. Adam Egypt Mortimer and Darick Robertson’s Ballistic is my kind of book. Starting from the first panel of…
Henchmen, from writer Jamison Raymond and artist Ryan Howe, has plenty of pop and polish, but fizzles when it comes to tone. In the vein of books like J. Michael…
In 2009, Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark launched their webcomic, The Guns of Shadow Valley, a mystical western. In subsequent years, the series garnered both an Eisner and Harvey…
Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…
Unchained is the Superman book you’ve been waiting for. Pulse-pounding action, a Batman-worthy mystery, and impossibly beautiful art make this the must-read book of the summer. Storytelling in the…
Rousing, rebellious, and rebooted for the digital age, cult favorites Quantum and Woody expand the Valiant Universe in a fun and unexpected new direction. The self-proclaimed “World’s Worst Superhero…
Jump in the Bat-Time Machine kids. You’ve read the Batman ’66 digital comic by Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case already and you’ve seen the show it’s inspired by, but what…
A disappointing and jumbled foray into dystopian sci-fi from the writer of Umbrella Academy, but Becky Cloonan shines once again. In a dystopian future, a group of rebel heroes called…
From Dynamite Entertainment comes The Shadow/Green Hornet: Dark Nights, a team-up comic scripted by veteran film producer Michael Uslan (notably associated with such comic book properties as Swamp Thing and…
A household chat over the breakfast table may not seem the most dynamic of starting points but all is not as it seems in Kat Leyh’s Pancakes from Yeti Press,…
Aric of Dacia returns to Earth after his captivity by an alien race. But the world is not as he left it. In the fifth century, Visigoth warrior Aric of…
The town of Safe Haven is anything but. Writer Ed Brisson and artist Johnnie Christmas’ brand new series Sheltered stood out as one of Broken Frontier’s Staff Picks of the…
This beautifully illustrated coming of age story set in WWII is a surprisingly subtle little treat… also featuring Nazis and a golem!!! The solicits for Breath of Bones and the…
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026