DRM-Free Stores Continue to Proliferate
In February Top Shelf Comics introduced its new DRM-free store. This makes it the second major comic publisher after Image Comics to introduce a DRM-free store. This is actually a…
Why You Should Be Reading Pretty Deadly
I always have a hard time figuring out which new comics I want to pick up. There are some choices that are easy, sure – I already know that I’ll…
Sex Criminals Finally Gets a Release Date
I’ve bee waiting for this series ever since I first heard about it. It has Matt Fraction (who I LOVE from Hawkeye, Fantastic Four, and The Defenders) and it has…
Multiple Warheads: A Crazy Soviet Alternate History, Pun-Filled World
When I first heard about Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity I had no idea who Brandon Graham was and the solicit didn’t particularly sound exciting: Sexica and her Werewolf boyfriend…
Not the Best time to be a Sidekick
Super hero sidekicks almost have the same joke status nowadays as Star Trek’s Red Shirts. In a lot of ways they’re a relic from an old era before people asked…
New Image Series and One Awesome Surprise
The AMAZING Matt Fraction (see today’s post in which Kari explores his teamwork with Aja on Hawkeye) will be teaming up with Howard Chaykin for a new black and white…
You Will Answer to No One Else…
Image Comics has been releasing a set of teasers with the text “You will Answer to No One Else But Me” with a hashtag, whatsnext. Two of the images look…
News: Lots of Reprints!, Graveyard of Empires,
Peter Panzerfaust #10 is getting a second printing. I read the first issue and I really liked it, but didn’t have the budget to get into the story at the…
News: Sex Sells, Skullkickers Dark, Baltimore Comic-Con 2013
Sex I just got word that Sex #1 has sold out. I’d like to think that is in no small part thanks to the advanced review I wrote. But if…
Sex #1 – Advanced Review
Surprisingly there isn’t much sex in Sex #1. I say surprisingly because this book wasn’t called Armored Saint and then advertised as a mature book with sex. It’s like having…