With James Wan’s Aquaman hitting theaters in two months, DC is boosting the hero’s profile on the page with crossovers putting him at the center of stories featuring major properties like Suicide Squad and Justice League. After facing off against the Squad last month, Aquaman is about to be submerged in “Drowned…
After hijacking Kitty Pryde and Colossus’ wedding in X-Men Gold #30, the newly married Rogue and Gambit have embarked on a honeymoon that has gone about as well as these things normally do for superheroes. Which is to say it’s been a total disaster. They decided to go to space to get away from all the drama on Earth,…
The best horror stories make it impossible to turn away, even after your fear takes over. They transfix you and keep you turning the page (or watching the movie), casting a spell that makes the misery of others irresistible. Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino’s Gideon Falls is one of those stories, a comic that turns…
Bobby Drake and Emma Frost have a complicated relationship. In the ’90s, Emma possessed Bobby’s body and helped him unlock the full potential of his ice powers—but it still involved unwanted psychic manipulation, and that’s not cool. Emma has flip-flopped between hero and villain for years, and she’s currently in a…
Justice League Dark is a superhero book driven by horror storytelling, so it makes sense that it would be at the center of an event during the spookiest month of the year. Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour is a weekly storyline unfolding in two 48-page one-shots and this month’s issues of Wonder…
22 years in the making, Jason Lutes’ Berlin is a sprawling work of historical fiction detailing the rise of the Nazi party in a fractured Germany struggling to recover from the devastation of World War I. When Lutes began his comic-book series in 1996, he couldn’t have known just how relevant it would be for the…
Much like vampires and zombies in past years, kids on bikes with flashlights have become a defining force of popular horror. Stranger Things is a streaming TV sensation. It broke box office records. Paper Girls has multiple Eisner Awards. There’s a hungry audience that flocks to these stories, and Oni Press is getting…
For the mother and son at the center of Max de Radiguès’ Bastard, quality family time comes from being on the lam. May and Eugene have just been part of a sprawling heist that saw 52 places robbed at the same time, and heat from both the police and their back-stabbing partners sends them on the run.
The DC Universe has been in a state of rapid change since the conclusion of the Dark Nights: Metal event. The Source Wall at the edge of the multiverse is broken, allowing threats to emerge that have continued this cosmic transformation. Justice League Odyssey is a new series taking a group of heroes into the Ghost…
Marvel’s X-Men line is about to go through another rehaul with Uncanny X-Men returning as a weekly series in November, but hopefully the end of this recent color-coded phase doesn’t mean the end of Tom Taylor, Carmen Carnero, and Rain Beredo’s X-Men Red. The solicitation for December’s issue #11 reads a lot like a…
Wildstorm created a new modern superhero universe when it debuted in the ’90s, embracing the storytelling conventions of the time to give readers high-energy superheroics with an x-treme edge. The genre has changed considerably in two decades, so when writer Warren Ellis and artist Jon Davis-Hunt reimagined the…
When it comes to creating a superhero team, humor can often be more effective at bringing characters together than world-shattering stakes. Writer Kelly Thompson, artist Stefano Caselli, and colorist TrĂona Farrell show how in the pages of West Coast Avengers, a title that introduces a compelling new superhero team by…
Hawkman has one of the most confusing histories of any superhero, thanks to the cycle of reincarnation that seen him live as an ancient Egyptian prince and a cosmic police officer, among the many roles he’s played throughout the millennia. In the right creative hands, that confusing continuity provides rich narrative…
Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka’s Runaways has been all about getting the old team back together, resurrecting both Gertrude Yorkes and Victor Mancha to recapture the magic of Brain K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona’s original series. And it works. Rowell and Anka have reinvigorated the title by doubling down on the…
Michael DeForge’s relationship with Koyama Press is one of the most rewarding professional partnerships in comics, as Koyama regularly releases new DeForge graphic novels and compilations of the cartoonist’s constantly expanding body of work. And the publisher is doubling down on DeForge this year, publishing a…
In any political regime, there are people who benefit and people who suffer. The proportions may vary, but even the worst administrations are advantageous to a select population. Hydra’s takeover of the United States in Marvel’s Secret Empire event threw the country into chaos, but Steve Rogers is discovering that…
This month’s Sandman Universe #1 is a good omen for Vertigo Comics’ new line of titles reviving Neil Gaiman’s Sandman mythos, bringing a talented line-up of writers and artists together to craft distinct introductions to their upcoming ongoing series. Writer Simon Spurrier, artist Bilquis Evely, and colorist Mat…
Last year, DC Comics released six one-shot specials that featured DC superheroes and villains interacting with Looney Tunes characters. Elmer Fudd hunted Batman, the Martian Manhunter fought Marvin the Martian, and Lobo became the latest fool to chase down Road Runner. This goofy experiment has since become a…
There was some major anxiety among Laura Kinney fans when Marvel announced that the she would be stepping down from the Wolverine role and going back to her old X-23 codename in a new solo series. Tom Taylor’s run on All-New Wolverine gave Laura a new sense of purpose as she took over for the deceased Logan, and…
Cartoonist Keiler Roberts doesn’t shy away from pain in her autobiographical work, understanding that the hard parts of life are what make the joys so valuable. Her work is as delightful as it is harrowing, exploring how these different emotions often intersect. Her first book for Koyama Press, Sunburning, was full of…
