Lost On Planet Earth #1: Perfection Is A Heavy Weight
Lost On Planet Earth #1
Visaggio and Aguirre create a sci-fi futuristic story that prays tribute to our everyday tribulations and preciousness.
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Broken World #1: Who Lives and Who Dies?
Broken World #1
For those looking for a heartfelt take on apocalyptic comics, Broken World #1 (Barbiere, Peterson, Louise, Dukeshire) brings all the emotion you could want with powerful character-driven drama. It’s dynamic, packs plenty of twists and turns, and leaves with a cliffhanger that will force you right into the next issue no questions asked.
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Drones Vol. 2: PTSD
Drones Vol. 2
Drones Vol. 2 (Runberg, Louis, Daviet) will make you ask some difficult questions and challenge how you look at the world, but it asks an incredibly important question when doing so regarding the inevitability of tragedy in modern wartime situations driven by political discord.
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The Forgotten Queen #1-4 : A Tale Of Inmortality and Memory
The Forgotten Queen #1-4
The Forgotten Queen #1-4 (Howard, Pinna) After this run, you’re not going to forget Vexana, the War-Monger. Incredible character work in an existential tale about dread, anguish, love and blood. Please, Valiant, give us more of her!
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Facing the Sun #1-5: Holding On In The Face Of Grief
Facing The Sun #1-5
Beautifully crafted by Tesslyn Bergin all by herself, Facing the Sun is a tale of abuse, grief and codependency excels in its themes and shocking panels, but with space for cuteness and healing.
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Monitor: Our Data is Our Strength, Our Data Will Protect Us
Monitor
Monitor (Wampler, Mkheidze, Juskiewicz) is a sci-fi epic with uniquely impressive visuals that unfolds like a relentlessly paced thriller, and despite the sometimes overly-complex narrative, it’s an undeniably thoughtful exploration of the dangers of our own technological dependence.
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Planetary #2: Here in this Place of Dreams
Planetary #2
The second issue of Planetary (Ellis, Cassaday, Depuy, O’Neil) feels like a love letter to all things Kaiju on its surface, but investigative elements push the story into new territories, emphasizing the archaeological roots of the team in wonderful new ways.
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Star Trek Captains Log – Pike: Is It All Worth It?
Star Trek Captains Log – Pike
If the classic Star Trek series just didn’t go deep enough into his origins and circumstance, Star Trek Captains Log – Pike (Moore, Woodward, Robbins) is definitely one to read. Just be sure to manage your expectations, it will make it easier to enjoy the lore being presented.
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Rai #1: Man or Myth?
Rai #1
Rai #1 (Kindt, Crain, Lanphear): Gorgeous art, rock solid writing and a sense of mystery and wonder that gets you on the hook from page one, Rai is everything it sets out to be and more.
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Empty Zone #2: Dragged From Our Eternal Slumber
Empty Zone #2
Empty Zone #2 (Alexander, NCT, Jackson) delivers the horrors with an issue that feels like a dark mystery unraveling within a technologically induced drug trip.
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Astonishing X-Men (2004) #50: Everything Is In Danger
Astonishing X-Men (2004) #50
Astonishing X-Men (2004) #50 (Liu, Perkins) A beautifully done and hard to digest issue, where emotional weight, tragedy and tension are achieved in practically all of it, both in the script and in the art.
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Drones Vol. 1: Hellfire
Drones Vol. 1
Drones Vol. 1: Hellfire (Runberg, Louis, Daviet) is a futuristic wartime graphic novel which asks readers to follow a personal vengeance-fueled story that attempts, to limited success, to shed light on a much larger real-world dynamic on the motivations of war. It’s good, but it had potential to be great.
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