Douglas A. Ewen is a young Canadian writer with a passion for the arts and entertainment. I chose comics as my main platform for entertainment because it gives me an escape from reality, not to hide from it, but to learn new cultures and gain unimaginable wisdom. So, I return stronger with knowledge of unexplainable proportions that will help lead us into the future utopia we all deserve. Douglas A Ewen is the owner and operator of Digitilly.ca that focuses on getting to know reviewers, so the people can get to know the critics who are telling them what is in or out this year!

FIRST WATCH: Get your Geek on With the Creators of “The Secret Loves of Geeks” Feb 21!

On February 4th, 2018, Dark Horse will release The Secret Loves of Geek, the follow up of last year’s incredible anthology, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. The new and upcoming anthology features comic and prose stories from writers, cartoonists, and professional geeks of all gender identities and sexual orientations about their most intimate, heartbreaking, humorous, and inspiring tales of love, sex, and dating.

Details

REVIEW: Backways #2 All the Forgotten Things: Part 2 – (Aftershock Comics)

Fans of mystical titles like Alice in Wonderland or Stardust our bound to be dazzled as Writer Justin Jordan (Green Lantern) and artist Elenora Carlini (Batgirl, Harley Quinn) bring you back into the enchanting and extravagant world of Backways. A place that holds unapprehended bewilderment as Anna Merrick, still searching all the forgotten spaces, has now entered a dimension where the only explanation for its existence is magic!

Details

FIRST WATCH: Marvel / Netflix Series Daredevil Welcomes The Woman With No Fear – Joanne Whalley – For Season 3

Season three of Marvel’s / Netflix’s Daredevil keeps on getting stronger as word of the return of The Kingpin, William Fisk played by the ever so talented Vincent D’Onofrio, spreads across Hellskitchen, a second wild card is dealt, this time in Matt Murdock’s favor. Joanne Whalley joins Season three of Daredevil, no official release date announced yet, but this news is big enough, so big you would have to be blind to miss it!

Details

FIRST WATCH: Image Comics Launches #WeBelieve Campaign – Celebrating Artists With Exclusive Virgin Wraparound Covers.

Image Comics is proud to reveal the first 7 of 14 exclusive virgin wraparound covers. The #Webelieve campaign celebrates artists and their importance, influence, and tremendous contribution they have when putting together the perfect comic. We Believe in Artists will be the first of many great things Image Comics has planned for the innovative #WeBelieve 2018 campaign. This imaginative and glorious campaign will help highlight the importance artist have in the creation of comics. This aspect of the creative process can be easily overlooked in the ever so growing comic industry.

Details

First Watch: From Console to Comic Book – Gears of War Comic Debut Sells out

IDW Publishing and The Coalition have taken the extremely popular Xbox exclusive third-person shooter and put it on our next favourite media platform, comic books. Both, IDW and The Coalition, are proud to announce that Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1, the debut issue of the highly anticipated adaptation,  has sold out at the distributor level just as it’s hitting stores. Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1 has already been sent back to print.

Details

First Watch: Two Childhood Friend’s Dreams Come True as Isola is Set to Hit Comic Book Shelves in April.

Brendan Fletcher (Acclaimed writer of Gotham Academy) and Eisner Award-winning storyteller Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy)  have been best friends since they were 10 years old. While they cooked up ideas as youngsters for great stories they would write together as adults, which they have, they finally figured out the missing ingredients. Sprinkle a little colour in the recipe from Msassyk (Gotham Academy) and a dash of lettering from Aditya Bidkar (Motor Crush) and presto you have the perfect entrée, the lush, mind-shattering Isola.

Details

First Watch: Deadpool and Logan Lead the Way for R Rated Superhero Films, Now it’s Spawns Turn.

With the success of Deadpool (745.7 million worldwide) and Logan (616,795,600 million worldwide), major studios are not afraid to gamble with a big red R on their superhero movie posters anymore. Although it is not always necessary to have mature content to get your point across, especially in the superhero genre – Pretty sure Marvel/Disney is doing just fine – Fans have had their voices echo for over two decades on what they expect to see in the Spawn re-boot, and Todd McFarlane was listening to them the whole time.

Details

First Watch: Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! Valliant Announces the First Issue of ‘The Coalition’, a Sense-Shattering Arc starting with Ninja-K #6

NINJA-K #6 is the FIRST ISSUE of “THE COALITION” – An all-new heart-stopping point from writers Christos Gage (Netflix’s Daredevil) and incendiary artist Juan José Ryp (BRITANNIA)! International super-spy codenamed NinjaK – Colin King – assembles an all-new death squad of black-ops featuring Livewire, Punk Mambo, Dr. Mirage, and the robotic alien enforcer known as GIN-GR to stop Valliant Comic’s most dangerous villains ever assembled… “The Coalition”!

Details