In the past I’ve mentioned some of what AfterShock Comics has been up to in my column here, but I haven’t talked about them as much as I should. I really haven’t been talking about the good work they’ve been doing. Having recently read World Reader #1, I decided I need to change that.
AfterShock Comics gets it.
I’ll explain. I was having lunch with Noah Sharma who writes over at Weekly Comic Book Review and AfterShock dominated the conversation. We talked about the different titles we’ve been enjoying like InSEXts, Animosity, Captain Kid, and World Reader. Well, the conversation actually started when I brought up how much I loved World Reader so let me backpedal a bit and talk about World Reader.
World Reader #1 hit the shelves on April 19th. It’s written by Jeff Loveness, drawn by Juan Doe and lettered by Rachel Deering.
AfterShock Comics gets it.
I’ll explain. I was having lunch with Noah Sharma who writes over at Weekly Comic Book Review and AfterShock dominated the conversation. We talked about the different titles we’ve been enjoying like InSEXts, Animosity, Captain Kid, and World Reader. Well, the conversation actually started when I brought up how much I loved World Reader so let me backpedal a bit and talk about World Reader.
World Reader #1 hit the shelves on April 19th. It’s written by Jeff Loveness, drawn by Juan Doe and lettered by Rachel Deering.
- 5/2/2017
- by Joe Corallo
- Comicmix.com
Comic Book Reviews: DC Comics Round Up Week 11-02-2016
After a brief hiatus from reviewing the great books of DC Comics I hop back and see what the current state of various series are. Officially moved from “I kind of care” to “I don’t care at all” are Cyborg, Justice League, Blue Beetle, Doom Patrol, Catwoman: Election Night and probably a few others soon. So the review list gets shorter! I am casually keeping up with these titles so if anyone has questions or thoughts feel free to sound off in the comments below and I’m more than happy to engage in discussion!
Aquaman #10
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy, Gabe Eltaeb
Review: Mera is brought before the widowhood and a prophesy is revealed that at some point in the future Mera will become insane with grief after Arthur befalls an untimely end, and thus...
After a brief hiatus from reviewing the great books of DC Comics I hop back and see what the current state of various series are. Officially moved from “I kind of care” to “I don’t care at all” are Cyborg, Justice League, Blue Beetle, Doom Patrol, Catwoman: Election Night and probably a few others soon. So the review list gets shorter! I am casually keeping up with these titles so if anyone has questions or thoughts feel free to sound off in the comments below and I’m more than happy to engage in discussion!
Aquaman #10
Story: Dan Abnett Art: Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy, Gabe Eltaeb
Review: Mera is brought before the widowhood and a prophesy is revealed that at some point in the future Mera will become insane with grief after Arthur befalls an untimely end, and thus...
- 11/4/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Katy Perry managed to make Snooki relevant at the Golden Globes by rocking Snook's fave hair accessory on the red carpet ... and admitting it! Perry sent the Internet into a nostalgia frenzy Sunday night when she copped to using a Bumpit, as seen on TV. Bumpit's inventor Kelly Fitzpatrick Bennett tells us Katy's 'do generated such insane interest, the company is making moves to get Bumpit back on shelves for the first time in 3 years!
- 1/12/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Bitch Planet #6 Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick Art by Taki Soma Cover by Valentine De Landro Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick Letters by Clayton Cowles Published by Image Comics on January 6, 2016
It’s been four months wait since we last got a Bitch Planet fix. Despite that length of time, issue #6 does not disappoint. In fact, it amplifies the sound and fury of issue #5, offering ironic contrast to the characters of the present narrative by flashing back to the time of their innocence before the Protectorate squashed their dreams of building a better world. Guest artist Taki Soma brings a delicacy of line to the story, emphasizing that hope is a thing with feathers, but also hollow, fragile bones.
Issue #6 relates Meiko Maki’s backstory and kicks off with a stark content warning for sexual assault. I revisit it here since I will be talking about the events of the issue,...
It’s been four months wait since we last got a Bitch Planet fix. Despite that length of time, issue #6 does not disappoint. In fact, it amplifies the sound and fury of issue #5, offering ironic contrast to the characters of the present narrative by flashing back to the time of their innocence before the Protectorate squashed their dreams of building a better world. Guest artist Taki Soma brings a delicacy of line to the story, emphasizing that hope is a thing with feathers, but also hollow, fragile bones.
Issue #6 relates Meiko Maki’s backstory and kicks off with a stark content warning for sexual assault. I revisit it here since I will be talking about the events of the issue,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Erin Perry
- SoundOnSight
Neverboy #1-6 (2015)
Written by Shaun Simon
Art by Tyler Jenkins
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Nate Piekos
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Remember your imaginary friend from childhood? How did you leave them? Did you grow older and forget about them? Decide that imaginary friends were for babies? Did they find ways into your works?
Now what do you think would have happened to them if you had died?
That’s approximately where the story of Neverboy begins.
Neverboy is the story of an imaginary friend of the same name who was created by a boy named Sam. After Sam’s death, Neverboy creates a life for himself by creating a family and taking drugs to keep himself in reality. Naturally, this annoys the Ministry of Imagination, but it gets much worse when he meets a down on his luck artist named Julian Drag who’s looking for nothing but inspiration.
Written by Shaun Simon
Art by Tyler Jenkins
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Nate Piekos
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Remember your imaginary friend from childhood? How did you leave them? Did you grow older and forget about them? Decide that imaginary friends were for babies? Did they find ways into your works?
Now what do you think would have happened to them if you had died?
That’s approximately where the story of Neverboy begins.
Neverboy is the story of an imaginary friend of the same name who was created by a boy named Sam. After Sam’s death, Neverboy creates a life for himself by creating a family and taking drugs to keep himself in reality. Naturally, this annoys the Ministry of Imagination, but it gets much worse when he meets a down on his luck artist named Julian Drag who’s looking for nothing but inspiration.
- 12/15/2015
- by Ashley Leckwold
- SoundOnSight
Neverboy #1-6 (2015)
Written by Shaun Simon
Art by Tyler Jenkins
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Nate Piekos
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Remember your imaginary friend from childhood? How did you leave them? Did you grow older and forget about them? Decide that imaginary friends were for babies? Did they find ways into your works?
Now what do you think would have happened to them if you had died?
That’s approximately where the story of Neverboy begins.
Neverboy is the story of an imaginary friend of the same name who was created by a boy named Sam. After Sam’s death, Neverboy creates a life for himself by creating a family and taking drugs to keep himself in reality. Naturally, this annoys the Ministry of Imagination, but it gets much worse when he meets a down on his luck artist named Julian Drag, who’s looking for nothing but inspiration.
Written by Shaun Simon
Art by Tyler Jenkins
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Nate Piekos
Published by Dark Horse Comics
Remember your imaginary friend from childhood? How did you leave them? Did you grow older and forget about them? Decide that imaginary friends were for babies? Did they find ways into your works?
Now what do you think would have happened to them if you had died?
That’s approximately where the story of Neverboy begins.
Neverboy is the story of an imaginary friend of the same name who was created by a boy named Sam. After Sam’s death, Neverboy creates a life for himself by creating a family and taking drugs to keep himself in reality. Naturally, this annoys the Ministry of Imagination, but it gets much worse when he meets a down on his luck artist named Julian Drag, who’s looking for nothing but inspiration.
- 12/11/2015
- by Ashley Leckwold
- SoundOnSight
The Shield #1
Written by Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig
Art by Drew Johnson
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Rachel Deering
Published by Archie/Dark Circle Comics
After the success of The Fox and Black Hood, the Dark Circle superhero imprint of Archie brings back the Shield, who has the historical distinction of being one of the first superheroes to wear the American flag back in January 1940. This was 11 months before Captain America made his Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created debut for Timely, later Marvel, Comics. This new take on the Shield stars a teenage girl named Victoria Adams, who remembers fighting and dying in basically all American wars from the American Revolution onward as she spends most of the issue on the run from the police, FBI, and an unnamed chaos-obsessed villain, who may be The Shield #1’s weak link. Writers Adam Christopher (sci-fi noir novel Made to...
Written by Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig
Art by Drew Johnson
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Rachel Deering
Published by Archie/Dark Circle Comics
After the success of The Fox and Black Hood, the Dark Circle superhero imprint of Archie brings back the Shield, who has the historical distinction of being one of the first superheroes to wear the American flag back in January 1940. This was 11 months before Captain America made his Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created debut for Timely, later Marvel, Comics. This new take on the Shield stars a teenage girl named Victoria Adams, who remembers fighting and dying in basically all American wars from the American Revolution onward as she spends most of the issue on the run from the police, FBI, and an unnamed chaos-obsessed villain, who may be The Shield #1’s weak link. Writers Adam Christopher (sci-fi noir novel Made to...
- 10/21/2015
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Jamie McKelvie (Backups by Sarah Gordon, Clayton Cowles)
Colors by Matthew Wilson (Backups by Sarah Gordon, Kelly Fitzpatrick)
Published by Image Comics
Opening with stark blue fuzz that bring back memories to the days before digital cable when you could watch music videos late at night, during breakfast, and really any time, Phonogram #1 shows that it and its characters are rooted in the past even as they decry all things retro. For those who haven’t read the previous two volumes (published in 2007 and 2009), the basic premise of the comic is that the characters (called phonomancers) in Phonogram can use music to make magic. Writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie delve into a variety of genres, including pop, alternative, hip hop, and punk to show how our taste in music defines us as humans and can evolve (or not...
Written by Kieron Gillen
Art by Jamie McKelvie (Backups by Sarah Gordon, Clayton Cowles)
Colors by Matthew Wilson (Backups by Sarah Gordon, Kelly Fitzpatrick)
Published by Image Comics
Opening with stark blue fuzz that bring back memories to the days before digital cable when you could watch music videos late at night, during breakfast, and really any time, Phonogram #1 shows that it and its characters are rooted in the past even as they decry all things retro. For those who haven’t read the previous two volumes (published in 2007 and 2009), the basic premise of the comic is that the characters (called phonomancers) in Phonogram can use music to make magic. Writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie delve into a variety of genres, including pop, alternative, hip hop, and punk to show how our taste in music defines us as humans and can evolve (or not...
- 8/12/2015
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
In Shops This Week:
Death Head #1
Writer: Zack Keller, Nick Keller
Artist: Joanna Estep
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Price: $4
Description: When Niles and Justine Burton go camping to get a break from their stressful lives, they expect to find peace . . . not an abandoned village hiding an ancient evil. In a turn of events ripped straight from a horror movie, a brutal killer wearing a plague doctor’s mask begins hunting Niles, Justine, and their two kids.
Our Take: As a new horror title, there’s many things to praise about Death Head: it has a suitably cool antagonist, a genuine sense of terror and a complex but intriguing narrative. On the other hand, the characters often feel flat and forced, given so little time to develop that they feel like parodies of the people they’re supposed to be. By starting so many stories in a single issue, the writers...
Death Head #1
Writer: Zack Keller, Nick Keller
Artist: Joanna Estep
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Price: $4
Description: When Niles and Justine Burton go camping to get a break from their stressful lives, they expect to find peace . . . not an abandoned village hiding an ancient evil. In a turn of events ripped straight from a horror movie, a brutal killer wearing a plague doctor’s mask begins hunting Niles, Justine, and their two kids.
Our Take: As a new horror title, there’s many things to praise about Death Head: it has a suitably cool antagonist, a genuine sense of terror and a complex but intriguing narrative. On the other hand, the characters often feel flat and forced, given so little time to develop that they feel like parodies of the people they’re supposed to be. By starting so many stories in a single issue, the writers...
- 7/20/2015
- by Chris Melkus
- Destroy the Brain
The Black Hood #1
Written by Duane Swierczynski
Art by Michael Gaydos
Colouring by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Lettering by Rachel Deering
Published by Archie Comics
Archie Comics is undergoing a creative renaissance. It started with Afterlife with Archie (2013), which re-imagined the kid-friendly world of Riverdale as a survival-horror zombie series. It made Archie the most culturally relevant it’s been in years, and they’ve been capitalizing on that book’s success with more forays into mature-reader comics. The Black Hood #1 launches Archie Comics’ new superhero universe, which will be published under the imprint Dark Circle Comics.
Launching a superhero universe in comics from scratch can be a daunting task with the Big Two destined to remain the top competitors in this industry for many more years to come. Valiant did so admirably when they relaunched their entire world in 2012 to great success. Three years in, and they’re still expanding. Dark Circle...
Written by Duane Swierczynski
Art by Michael Gaydos
Colouring by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Lettering by Rachel Deering
Published by Archie Comics
Archie Comics is undergoing a creative renaissance. It started with Afterlife with Archie (2013), which re-imagined the kid-friendly world of Riverdale as a survival-horror zombie series. It made Archie the most culturally relevant it’s been in years, and they’ve been capitalizing on that book’s success with more forays into mature-reader comics. The Black Hood #1 launches Archie Comics’ new superhero universe, which will be published under the imprint Dark Circle Comics.
Launching a superhero universe in comics from scratch can be a daunting task with the Big Two destined to remain the top competitors in this industry for many more years to come. Valiant did so admirably when they relaunched their entire world in 2012 to great success. Three years in, and they’re still expanding. Dark Circle...
- 2/26/2015
- by Trevor Dobbin
- SoundOnSight
Ash and the Army of Darkness #8
Written by Steve Niles
Art by Nacho Tenorio
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Marshall Dylan
Cover by Justin Erickson
Published by Dynamite
Ashley J. Williams is one of the few characters to successfully make the transition from movies to comics. Besides the obligatory movie adaptations Ash has crossed paths with Marvel ‘ s zombieverse, and both Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Dynamite’s recent series Ash And The Army Of Darkness picks up right where Army Of Darkness left off and continues Ash’s medieval adventures. Ash And The Army Of Darkness Issue #8 starts of with Ash in the hands of the Deadites lead by Sheila the possessed maiden that holds Ash’s heart – when she’s not trying to cut it out. Ash’s famous mix and match arm now sports a sword (one can only assume that it’s hard to find...
Written by Steve Niles
Art by Nacho Tenorio
Colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letters by Marshall Dylan
Cover by Justin Erickson
Published by Dynamite
Ashley J. Williams is one of the few characters to successfully make the transition from movies to comics. Besides the obligatory movie adaptations Ash has crossed paths with Marvel ‘ s zombieverse, and both Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Dynamite’s recent series Ash And The Army Of Darkness picks up right where Army Of Darkness left off and continues Ash’s medieval adventures. Ash And The Army Of Darkness Issue #8 starts of with Ash in the hands of the Deadites lead by Sheila the possessed maiden that holds Ash’s heart – when she’s not trying to cut it out. Ash’s famous mix and match arm now sports a sword (one can only assume that it’s hard to find...
- 6/12/2014
- by Zachary Zagranis
- SoundOnSight
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