âPeople donât believe in God,â says Jesus Christ in Second Coming #1, âso much as they hope for a witness to their suffering.â Thus began a series from writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace that surprised readers and critics alike. Far from the blasphemous screed the Fox News crowd assumed it would be before…
I have interviewed a mess oâ people over the years â Jason Aaron, Scott Snyder, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Charles Soule and Brian Michael Bendis to obscenely drop a few names â but outside of Eliot Rahal and Kyle Starks (two repeat customers who are always good for great insights and even better laughs), my favorite…
Redfork is a six-issue miniseries/six-part graphic novel by writer Alex Paknadel, artist Nil Vendrell, colorist Giulia Brusco and letterer Ryan Ferrier. It follows Noah as he leaves prison and returns to his Appalachian hometown, where he discovers sinister forces both without and deeply within that community. It is available now from TKO Studios. This interview…
Ed Brisson has done a lot of notable work for Marvel the past couple years, including a well-received run on âGhost Rider,â co-writing âX-Men: Disassembledâ with Kelly Thompson and Matthew Rosenberg, co-writing âNew Mutantsâ with Jonathan Hickman and a one-page story in an X-Men Christmas special that made Glob Herman everyoneâs favorite good globby boy. …
Some kids think of their parents as superheroes; usually thatâs a good thing. But when it turns out your dad has superpowers and ditches your family to become the one superhero in the world, well, the reality doesnât quite live up to the fantasy. âLike Father, Like Daughterâ â by writer Kat Calamia, artist Wayne…
Mark Russell and Steve Pughâs AHOY Comics series âBillionaire Islandâ arrived in early March as an uneasy world watched what would soon be declared a pandemic spread across the globe and collectively tugged on its collar and made a big cartoon gulping sound. Suddenly, the idea of the worldâs billionaires moving to a floating island…
When AHOYâs âAsh & Thornâ launched in June, it disrupted the patriarchyâs hold on both content and the publisherâs creative teams, as silver-haired heroine Lottie Thorn beat back the boysâ club of titles such as âHigh Heaven,â âSecond Comingâ and âPlanet of the Nerdsâ with writer Mariah McCourt and artist Soo Lee right behind her. …
The latest in our series of profiles of Kickstarters you should check out is âRDW,â a dark fantasy comic from creator Marco Rudy. You may know Rudyâs work from âThe Shieldâ at DC or âUncanny X-Menâ and âBucky Barnes: The Winter Soldierâ at Marvel. We sat down with Rudy to talk story, inspirations and his…
Like most comic book journos, I do this for fun â and âfunâ there can be a few different things, from ripping on the trash books that deserve it to marveling at the ones that do the artform proud. In my interview pieces, I look for the characters, the creators, the people who tell stories…
I have a little secret Iâm not proud of: With the amount of Kickstarter projects I back, when they arrive, they tend to pile up. I have an entire pile of unread Kickstarter graphic novels and single issues that I always say Iâm going to get to next week, and next week always becomes the…
Marty is stuck at his dead-end job at Burger Lord and the last 15 years have passed him by. What happens when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from an insane cult full of violent lunatics, led by a monster in human form? Will his manager and best friend Bernice roll her eyes and fire…
Marauders, Cable, Savage Avengers, Gerry Duggan has a ton on his plate at the moment. But he was nice enough to sit down and answer some questions from us about his latest escapades at Marvel. Xavier Files: Kate Pryde and her struggles with her identity have been at the forefront of this run. What made…
Tristan Palmgren is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy writer of the upcoming Domino: Strays, coming out on October 6th, 2020. Their debut novel Quietus, a genre-warping blend of historical fiction and space opera set during the Black Death, was published by Angry Robot Books March, 2018. The sequel, Terminus, was released in November, 2018. Andrea Ayers of Xavier Files…
Up-and-coming indie comics creators and start-up publishers need to answer a lot of questions. How much money do I need to publish my comic? How can I work with comic shops to market the comics? How do I select a printer? Entertainment contracts attorney Gamal Hennessy seeks to answer those questions in The Business of Independent Comic…
Chances are, if you make comics, at some point youâll be out here crowdfunding a book through Kickstarter. But just like every comic may be some readerâs first, creators, too, need to start somewhere when it comes to promoting their first indie or self-published comic. After covering Kickstarters and similar projects on his own site,…