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Next week, Black Mask Studios will release Ballistic, a psychedelic sci-fi adventure from Adam Mortimer and Darick Robertson. This series is a return to basics for Robertson as the artist…
After examining Paul O’Brien’s analysis of Marvel’s sales, Graeme McMillan’s Newsarama blog posed an interesting question: why the low sales for Marvel’s female-led titles? McMillan’s question is likely to draw…
Yesterday, word got out that the long-running UK comics anothology The Dandy had halted its digital publication plans and that last week’s edition was the final one. It was only…
On sale next week from Image Comics is Ghosted, a five-issue miniseries about Jackson T. Winters, a criminal mastermind who’s locked away in jail for good, until some rich bloke…
The War Machine, the first fourteen-part story to feature the rebooted version of 2000 AD’s Rogue Trooper by Dave Gibbons and Will Simpson, has just been released in collected form…
June is a big month for Becky Cloonan. Not only is she drawing the spectacular The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, of which the first issue hit last week,…
There are plenty of heroes and groups of heroes in fiction, but few as innovative, as unusual or with just so much pure class as the Avengers, created way back…
By now it’s pretty clear that those Mayans got it wrong. The world didn’t explode on December 21, 2012. But that doesn’t mean humanity is completely out of harm’s way,…
Over the last few years Titan Books have published a number of handsome collections of classic comics work by legendary creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. These have included volumes…
Little creatures on a big adventure is normally something you’d associate with Disney, but Image Comics’ The Mice Templar is closer to fantasy epics by J.R.R. Tolkien, or George R.R….
Denny O’Neil, comics writer and editor extraordinaire and one of the smartest guys on the planet when it comes to funny books, once said: “There is seldom one absolute, unarguable,…
Here is my final examination of this year’s offerings for the awesomeness that is Free Comic Book Day (see Part 1 here). All-Ages Kaboom! Summer Blast. BOOM! Comics’ all-ages imprint has…
Welcome to an introduction to one of the greatest comic loving days of the year. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, an annual occurrence on the first Saturday in May….
Superhero sequels will always undergo scrutiny, and especially this franchise, after the rise of Robert Downey Jr, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, expectations were always going to be high. Thankfully,…
The Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, now in its fourth year, continues to be one of the best pop cultural events in the Windy City. While keeping comics at the…
At its core, this Hit-Girl run is about one very damaged little girl trying to connect with a reality she cannot even begin to understand. The original Kick-Ass series was…
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
“I Think ‘Limbo’ is Probably the Best Work I’ve Ever Done in Any Medium” – Ferry Gouw on His New Book from Breakdown Press, Cross-Media Work on ‘Major Lazer’, and Adapting His Style for Different ProjectsJune 30, 2026
“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
