Carol Danvers’ promotion as the new Kree Accuser feels like echoes of Spider-Man’s own symbiotic power-up from the days of Secret Wars, and as such, Captain Marvel #18 (opens in new tab) is a solid Empyre tie-in that adds new wrinkles to Carol’s history with the Kree empire. This issue …
Read More »Jae Lee speaks out on Tom King’s “irresponsible tweets” over Rorschach cover
Artist Jae Lee has spoken out after a contemptuous 48 hours (opens in new tab) which began Friday when Tom King publicly expressed “deep disappointment” with DC hiring the artist to draw a variant for King’s upcoming Rorschach series. King quoted Lee’s recent drawing for a Comicsgate associated project as …
Read More »Image Comics October 2020 solicitations & covers revealed
The advanced Image Comics October 2020 solicitations have been unveiled along with the covers. Six new series will debut in October – The Scumbag (opens in new tab), Commanders in Crisis (opens in new tab), Getting it Together, Blue in Green, Stairway Anthology, and Planet Paradise – as well as …
Read More »IDW president/publisher/chief creative officer Chris Ryall exits company
Chris Ryall has announced that he is stepping down from his role as IDW Publishing’s president/publisher/chief creative officer to work for a new, as-yet-unnamed company developing some of the creator-owned projects he published while at IDW. “Change is often hard, and I will miss this extended family I have worked …
Read More »Best Shots Review: Hellions #2 “absolutely stands out amid the Dawn of X pack” (9/10)
The new Hellions’ first mission goes amazingly horrible in Hellions #2. Though saddled with a longer-than-usual lag time thanks to the covid pandemic, Zeb Wells’ troubled, but engaging cast returns in a grand, violent fashion. Tasked with the “therapeutic mission” of scouring Mr. Sinister’s old clone farm settled underneath the …
Read More »Sink your fangs into Vampire: The Masquerade as it embraces comic books
Get your fangs out, as Vampire: The Masquerade is on its way to comic books. On August 5, Vault Comics launches an ongoing series based on the cult-favorite bloodsucking tabletop role-playing game – and they’ve enlisted three writers that happen to be long-time fans: Tim Seeley, Tini Howard, and her …
Read More »First Look at Dune House Atreides #1 art
Boom! Studios announced the full creative team and showed off the first preview artwork from October’s Dune House Atreides #1, the debut issue of a 12-part comic book series adapted from the prose novel based on author Frank Herbert’s notes about his own seminal science fiction series of novels. Dune …
Read More »The return of Maestro gets a trailer from Marvel Comics
Fan-favorite Hulk creators Peter David and Dale Keown will team with artist German Peralta in August for Maestro, a new series exploring the origins of the villainous far-future version of the Hulk who debuted in David and George Pérez’s Hulk: Future Imperfect in 1992. The five-issue limited series will explore …
Read More »Marvels Strikeforce canceled
Marvel has cancelled the ongoing series Strikeforce, with August 5’s #9 serving as the series finale. Launched in the aftermath of the 2019 Marvel Comics event ‘War of the Realms,’ Strikeforce consists of Blade, Angela, Spider-Woman, Wiccan, the Winter Soldier, Monica Rambeau, and Daimon Hellstrom. With a motto of “No …
Read More »Rorschach from Watchmen returns in new DC series
Tom King and Jorge Fornés’ long-simmering DC project now has a name: Rorschach. After previously touching on Watchmen in his Batman run, King will dive head-long into that world with this 12-issue series spinning off the popular character created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. (Image credit: DC) (opens in …
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