A couple months ago we received a few manga books from the awesome people at VIZ Media. One of the books that caught our eye was the first volume of stories from the Children of the Whales series, created by Abi Umeda.
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We told you in January that Hawkman was to get a monthly comic book series spinning out of Metal. Then in February that it would be written by Robert Venditti. And DC's PR department and their media partner the Washington Post have confirmed that with a certain Bryan Hitch as artist, who drew the recent Hawkman Found.
Reading Tom King and Mitch Jenkins's Mister Miracle reeks of reading Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's Big Numbers -- so much so that I often forget which I am reading, even though it's obviously going to be Mister Miracle.
In July, Laura Kinney is getting both a name change and a new #1 issue as Mariko Tamaki, Jaunn Cabal, and Nolan Woodard launch X-23 #1.
ComiXology is being allowed to play in Marvel's quarterly digital sales rather than just the Amazon Kindle digital comics getting all the love -- but it does create some weird conflagrations when Marvel collections normally priced $20 or under get pushed out for 99 cents a pop.
You can see the power of Amazing Spider-Man as it ratchets up to #800 and retailers struggle to catch up with demand coming out of the woodwork for the Red Goblin story -- whomever it turns out to be. The Batman/Catwoman marriage saw the cover with the wedding dress also get a lot of attention.
I am still flummoxed by just how well Dan Jurgens has handled Superman since the DC Rebirth relaunch less than two years ago. While successful in the '90s
The first New Mutants team were created by Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod in the 1982 Marvel Graphic Novel of the same name and subsequently
Today's All-New Wolverine #32 continues a journey into Laura's past, the consequences of her actions as a trained, brainwashed assassins, and working
Infidel tells the story of Aisha, her husband, her step-daughter, and her mother-in-law. They live in an apartment building that recently suffered from a mass murder. Aisha fears she's being visited in the night. Does it make a good read?
Many superhero comic books run with titles including Man, Boy, Woman, Girl, Lad, Lass, Lady and the like. It seems intrinsic to the genre. We have
Tomorrow sees the release of Red Hood & The Outlaws #20 by Scott Lobdell, Deter Soy and Veronica Gandini. Writer, Scott Lobdell, was in the news
Over in X-Men Red, the very nature of the mutant issue in the Marvel Universe has been emphasised with the United Nations looking at in-utero testing for
Comic book stores aren't having the best time right now. Already 2018 sales are down on 2017 which was down on 2016. So as Detective Comics #976 takes
The passing of Stephen Hawking at the age of 76, has been marked for his impact on pop culture as much as the understanding of the universe. Here's how a
The second installment of Incognegro: Renaissance finds Zane undergoing a makeover so that he can go undercover at the whites-only Cotton Club to find a woman present during Xavier's murder. Is it a good read?
Yu and the other Mech Cadets arrive at Central Command to rally before joining the war against the Sharg. However, Central Command may just be hiding something from the rest of the Mech Corps. Does it make for a good read?
The Wicked + The Divine continues onward with a revelation of how the game of gods that makes up this series began. In the present, Persephone and Cassandra are still trapped. Is it a good read?
Our Assassinistas are shown on a hit in flashbacks while Octavia tries to console her son in the present after he shoots someone for the first time on a mission. Is it a good read?
Publisher's Weekly reports that Jordan Brown at children's publisher Balzer + Bray, an imprint of Harper Collins, has beaten five other publishers at
Jughead: The Hunger #4 focuses on the story of Elena Cooper and her complicated relationship with the werewolf Joneses in years past. Is it a good read?
Bleeding Cool ran this preview of Domino #1 a couple of weeks ago, unbeknownst to us, accidentally exclusive to Bleeding Cool. Well, now we get the pages
Tomas has joined a Dodge City dodgeball team called the Jazz Pandas. Unfortunately, he's not good at dodgeball, and the Pandas have a losing streak to overcome. Is it a good read?
A boy named Moth is sold into slavery by his own family to a nobleman known only as the magister. He takes the boy to the Highest House, the castle of the land's monarchy. Is it a good read?
DC Comics has revealed new details, character profiles, and artwork for the upcoming comic book The Unexpected from Steve Orlando and Ryan Sook.
The lead up to Amazing Spider-Man #800 continues to burn through printings. And even though they didn't actually have the Red Goblin in them, Amazing Spider-Man #795 and Amazing Spider-Man #796 are going to third printings of both, out on the 18th of April.
The good news is that, for the first time since 2012, a new volume of Sophie Campbell's Wet Moon is being release this November, according to a press release from Oni Press. The bad news: this will be the last one.
What would you think if we told you that the debut of the Ranger Slayer as part of BOOM! Studios' ongoing Power Rangers super-mega-crossover event, Power Rangers: Shattered Grid, will bring with a new Zord?
Five years ago, Image Comics published Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura's I Kill Giants. It is now an upcoming American fantasy thriller film directed by Anders Walter, and now they are reissuing the collection with a cover from the movie, Collecting I Kill Giants #1-#7.
Tomorrow, comic book stores will be giving away a free 32-page comic reprinting the thirty-year-old first issue of The World of Krypton #1, courtesy of