comics

BOOM! Studios is planning on getting you in the romantic mood this February with the release of its four-part comic book series Jonesy. 

From the creative team of writer Sam Humphries …
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The delightfully dark and hilarious Gunshow comics by cartoonist KC Green have been animated as TV bumpers for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block.

Jason DeMarco, VP and Creative Director of Adult …
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All unlicensed content previously featured on the English-language hentai website Fakku has been removed, in favor of a legal subscription plan that supports the Japanese artists behind the pornographic manga.

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The American consciousness, the American Dream, and the differences between American and European thought have been topics of Mark Millar’s comics for a long time. In the Jupiter’s Circle series, he has been exploring this a little more deeply. In this week’s Jupiter’s Circle v2 #2, he goes full speed into a reflection of the current American landscape, as seen through the mistakes of the past. It’s bad. It’s very bad.

And welcome back to our ongoing coverage of Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s Lazarus.

The standard preamble: We trust you know what Lazarus is, and you know why we …
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Tribute Games has finished its prequel comic for Curses ‘N Chaos and compiled all eight pages for easy reading.

Following the 2014 Metal Slug inspired game, Mercenary Kings, Tribute Games will release Curses ‘N Chaos …
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Hey, folks, my name is Alex Langley; you may know me from the gaming section of Nerdspan. Let’s flip our chairs around and sit in them backwards so we can …
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This Damned Band #1 is about a band called Motherfather that is, uh, damned. Or something like it. In the first page, the narrative tells us that the band are “…devotees of the occult,” and that they take their beliefs “…very seriously.” From there, Paul Cornell and Tony Parker go out of their way to make fun of this conceit, and the results are interesting.

Dark Corridor #1 gets an absolute endorsement if you’re already stepped outside of the Marvel / DC / Image / Dark Horse comfort zone. Rich Tommaso is doing something here that’s neat and unfamiliar enough to excuse its flaws. If you like crime stories with ambition, and you’re tired of the same-old / same-old with Brubaker and Phillips, give this a whirl.

The storied flaw of the anthology or the magazine is that they’re uneven. The best of collections can be victims to this pratfall, and in the case of Heavy Metal #275, while there’s a unique unifying element, an important detail is missed that hurts the cohesion of the anthology.

To give some benefit of the doubt: first issues are hard, and Ales Kot’s a talented writer. His pretension tends to jump in front of him. He has strong opinions about social issues, and he’s into weird sex, and he’s into Hollywood, and he’s into war, so those trickle their way into his work. Unfortunately, here in Material #1, they add up to absolutely nothing. Perhaps once the trade hits, this will be worth something; on its own, it is a top-to-bottom failure.

There’s been a truly outstanding run of Image comics lately. Valhalla Mad is certainly an Image comic, but it is not outstanding. If you have an itch for Thor comics, read Marvel’s genuine article as opposed to this dull, annoying farce. It’s not worth your time.