There’s a lot of comics news out there. Who has time to digest it all? Not us! But we had a few minutes this morning, so here are some stories that brightened our inboxes this week.
Did You Hear About Mimi Green?
Dark Horse Comics on Thursday announced Did You Hear About Mimi Green?, the first comic by Cerebro podcast host Connor Goldsmith, with art by CXF Redesigning alum Josh Cornillon (with fellow Redesigning artist Alex Buckland assisting on colors) and letters by Ariana Maher. According to Dark Horse, the four-issue series offers a surreal and grisly take on the wellness industry, cancel culture, body dysmorphia and the complex power dynamics of show business. Issue #1 is due out May 27 and will retail for $4.99. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell and Nick Robles will supply variant covers.
Tastemaker Mimi Green is a popular essayist with a perfectly curated social media presence — until a blog post she wrote a decade ago, cruelly mocking fat people, resurfaces and sparks a viral furor. Mimi checks into an isolated mental health facility in Topanga to ride out the scandal, but as sound baths and crystal healings by day give way to restless nights, she’s pulled into another version of the building. There, the halls are old and gluttonous and gilded, and the vainglorious like Mimi and her fellow patients are punished again and again. Only local bartender Natalie, the lesbian lover Mimi hid from the public, stands a chance of tracking her down before it’s too late.
“Developing my first comic with Josh has been a joy, and Ariana’s lettering has pushed his gorgeous art even further,” said Goldsmith. “Did You Hear About Mimi Green? is a very personal story, and I’m so grateful Dark Horse understands what I’m trying to accomplish with this book. I am so proud of what we’ve made, and so excited we can finally talk about it!”
More Connor Goldsmith here. | More Josh Cornillon here. | More Alex Buckland here.
Sink Your Teeth In
And hey, while we’re plugging people who’ve been associated with the site in some way, shape or form, past CXF writer Zoe Tunnell has a Kickstarter out right now for a sapphic vampire noir, Sink Your Teeth In, with artist Lauren Knight, colorist JP Jordan and letterer Jodie Troutman, published through Kat Calamia and Phil Falco’s DEATHline imprint.
Chicago is a vampire town. Has been for years. Divided between four rival factions of influential undead, every drop of the city’s lifeblood runs through them. And Corsica Smith barely sees any of it. Having long since fallen from her once-powerful place in the city’s elite, she scrapes by as a bottom-rate private eye. Decades spent solving petty disputes and catching cheating spouses has left her trapped in a menial hell. But when her first real mystery in a decade throws her into a web of secrets and death, with her long-absent ex-lover at its center, as captivating as ever, she can’t stop herself from taking the case. Quickly finding themselves on the run and seeking answers, the two former lovers are forced to rely on each other and find out the best-kept secret in vampire society ... if they don’t kill each other first.
In other news, Tunnell announced this week she is writing a prequel comic for the video game Life Is Strange: Reunion with artist Claudia Leonardi. More details on that are to come.
Zdarsky goes MAD
DC on Wednesday announced MAD About DC, a 64-page one-shot arriving April Fools’ Day, with comics’ saddest clown, Chip Zdarsky, acting as guest editor.
“They say at DC there’s nowhere to go but down after writing Batman, and, yeah, it’s true,” said Zdarsky. “It’s very true.”
The superhero spoof magazine will include the following:
- Sergio Aragonés with “A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores”
- Jim Zub & Ramon Perez teaming for “Guy vs. Spy”
- A brand-new DC Fold-In by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne
- A parade of MAD-style parodies skewering the DC comic books you love, and a few you’ve always hated anyway, from Kyle Starks, Dave Johnson, Tini Howard, Mattie Lubchansky, Mark Waid, Ty Templeton, Rainbow Rowell, Vita Ayala, M.L. Sanapo, Mark Russell, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Gerry Duggan, Scott Aukerman, Mitch Gerads, Joanne Starer, Joe Quinones, Scott Snyder, Josh Williamson, Deniz Camp, Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Joe Kelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Mariko Tamaki, Riley Rossmo, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Shannon Wheeler, Leah Williams, Isaac Goodhart, Cody Ziglar, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Daniel Kibblesmith, Brandt&Stein, Casey Gilly, J. Bone, Skottie Young, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Byrne, Colleen Coover, Benjamin Errett, Matt Fraction, Kagan McLeod, Lee Gatlin, Joseph Starkey, Graham Roumieu…and more?!
The issue will feature a main cover by Dan Panosian, retailing for $7.99, cardstock variants by Simon Bisley and Zdarsky, retailing for $8.99, and a foil variant by Panosian, retailing for $10.99.
Not unlike X-Men in the late 1960s, MAD has mostly published reprints since 2019.
April Pool’s Day
Marvel announced Thursday a new Deadpool: April Pool’s Day one-shot written by past ‘Pool writer Gail Simone and drawn by C.F. Villa and others, with covers by David Baldeon, Todd Nauck, Jim Rugg and Kei Zama.
Join Wade Wilson as we celebrate April Pool’s Day the way our ancestors did – with tricks, gags and potentially universe-ending calamity. Wait, what was that last one? The real trick is, Wade’s being serious when he figures out how deadly the situation is on April 1, and no one believes him! But you do, right? Because if not, this could spell the end of the Marvel Universe as we know it!
More Deadpool here. | More Gail Simone here.
Dan Grote is the editor and publisher of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Follow him @danielpgrote.bsky.social.
