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It feels like it’s been a whole couple of days since we last saw a fantastic Vault Comics release a new comic and so, this week, we check out their first issue of their new series the Blue Flame. The comic, by Christopher Cantwell and Adam Gorham, follows the story of a Superhero in two very different adventures. Can Vault’s new series burn bright with readers or will the winds or the market blow it straight out?
A second volume of the fantastic supernatural crime procedural Harker: The Book of Solomon is now funding on Kickstarter. We look back at the first and see whether our sleuthing skills were up to scratch now we’ve read the sinister finale!
Our latest round-up of great new indie comics has a very crime focused feel with arctic misadventure Freak Snow, Blue Fox Comics’ undead revenge thriller Jimmys Vendetta and Ed Whiting’s 70s grindhouse crime thriller Bigger Fish.
Imagine if the Silver Age technology Stan and Jack gave us in the Sixties was real. If we’d lived in a world of flying cars, time machine and galactic nullifiers sixty years ago what would life be like now? Dose shows us and it’s not a pretty sight.
Most old-timers in financial markets are convinced that this category of players is only able to lose their funds, thus ensuring a harmless existence of brokers. Of course, it is impossible to vouch for the reliability of this information. At the same time, statistics is a stubborn thing, and it shows that the lion’s share […]
There’s a wonderful correlation between wrestling and comics, with both featuring valiant heroes and over the top villains and this is especially so in the world of small press. One of our favourites who really manage to capture that dynamic is James Lawrence’s Legend of La Mariposa and he is back with a collection of new knockout adventures in The Climb and Other Stories.
A first ongoing series from Black Mask Studios, Destiny, NY #1 and 2 sees Pat Shand and Manuel Preitano’s magical fantasy slice of life comic joining the likes of X’ed, Everfrost at a major indie publisher. It sees a young woman trying to find meaning for her life after already completing its original meaning. Is this comic series destined to succeed on the shelves or will it be the victim of false prophecy.
Set in a world of sensational videos being filmed on mobiles and uploaded to the sharing platform Contraband, community journalist Toby gets himself in deeper than he expects when he accidentally films the activities of the notorious Tucker. Blackmailed into finding the enigmatic Charlotte, Toby is drawn into a world of underground video sharing, political […]
Imagine if you could delete memories, forget the past, un-remember people. That’s the conceit behind Black Mask’s X’ed by Tony Patrick and Ayhan Hayrula with the first arc of the recent series, now collected for the first time.
We continue our look at some of the fantastic comics released by small press superstars Good Comics (see also our review of FML). This time we check out The Good Comics Reader Volume 2, Return by Niki Bañados and Fishes May Come Back – Emre Altindag. Good Comics Reader Volume 2 – Various This anthology […]