NEWS WATCH: SCOUT COMICS Proudly Presents SOULSTREAM, A New ALL AGE SCOOT Imprint Title
Coming in late 2020 from Scout Comics’ imprint Scoot!
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Metal Men #6: A Fortune in Lies
Metal Men #6
Metal Men #6 (Didio, Davis, Wright, Lanham) is an engrossing tale that brings a meaty realness to the Pinocchio trope, Davis and Didio take something that’s been done a million times and turns it on its ear to create something unique that truly draws you into the story.
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Swamp Thing: New Roots #3: The Imaginary Salvation of Power
Swamp Thing: New Roots #3
Swamp Thing: New Roots #3 (Russell, Santucci, Kalisz, Sharpe) is consistent with it’s enjoyable characterizations, and there is just enough depth of plot to keep you coming back. It may not convince a new reader to jump into the series but it does push the story in interesting new directions and left me excited to come back for more.
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Lois Lane #10 (of 12): Crash Course in the Multiverse To Go
For the first time, the creative team of Lois Lane (Rucka, Perkins, Troy) comes up short in issue 10, larding this issue with unnecessary exposition for a character we barely know. It isn’t a complete disaster by any means, but is oddly out of character for such robust creators.
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For Molly #2: Fox Eyes
For Molly #2
For Molly (Cheng, Sawyer) is proving itself an interesting story with a mythos that captivates and captures the reader. Going now in their Kickstarter for issue #3, this second one provides us worldbuilding and designs filled with expressiveness, emotion, and strength.
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NEWS WATCH: Parallax Studio launches Kickstarter for new film “To Meet the Faces You Meet” starring Patton Oswalt
Parallax Studio is excited to announce the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to fund the final phases of its newest independent film project, To Meet the Faces You Meet.
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DP7: Gruenwald and Ryan’s Soap Opera
Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan’s D.P.7 is a three year “real time” soap opera about seven unusual Americans and the hospital they escape from.
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Case File nº221: Kabukicho Series Review: Elementary
Case File nº221: Kabukicho
In the center of the infamous Kabukicho, home of host clubs, crime, and the headquarters of the famed Pipe Cat Bar and its crack team of detectives who can solve any mystery thrown at them. Such a promise is what brings Doctor John Watson to the establishment, looking for the slightly odd but unquestionably brilliant Sherlock Holmes. The good doctor and the unstoppable super sleuth travel all around Kabukicho, solving crimes ranging from vandalism, theft, and murder. They are often joined by the other members of Pipe Cat, as well as the well-informed street leader of Shinjuku, the young James Moriarty.
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Astonishing X-Men (2004) #62-65: The Queer Sadness Of Bobby Drake
Astonishing X-Men (2004) #62-65
Astonishing X-Men (2004) #62-65 (Liu, Walta): Bobby Drake has always been a complicated case. Join Comic Watch today to travel to 2013 and take a look at a queer Bobby issue, 2 years before his coming out. It’s complicated, it’s confusing, it’s sometimes not so good, but what it ultimately tells us about storytelling and subtext is precious.
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NEWS WATCH: Dark Planet Comics Debuts PALOMINO Cover And All New Preview by Stephan Franck
Dark Planet Comics has debuted the cover and an all new preview sequence from Stephan Frank’s highly anticipated PALOMINO, the first part of a planned four-part graphic novel series.
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Ninjak #17: An End and A Beginning
Ninjak #17
Ninjak #17 (Kindt,Bernard, Rodrigues, Dalhouse, Arreola) is the kind of climax you wish all spy/action stories who measure up to. It neatly and expertly wraps up a huge chapter in both Roku and Ninjak’s lives while also planting small seeds that show promise of epic things to come.
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Swamp Thing: New Roots #2: Everything Eats and Everything Dies
Swamp Thing: New Roots #2
The creative team utilizes their firm understanding of the character for a heartfelt, albeit inconsequential, story in Swamp Thing: New Roots #2 (Russell, Santucci, Kalisz, Sharpe) that once again explores the outside perspective of the life and death cycle that Swamp Thing experiences. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth your time.
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