We review the newest and best digital comics, from big name titles on platforms like ComiXology to essential indie titles and the latest app-based publishers.
Scout Comic’s Black Cotton gives a fresh spin on contemporary racial tensions by swapping the traditional roles with a rich black family coming under fire for their attitudes towards minority whites. But is Black Cotton a tale worth spinning?
It’s no secret that we are huge fans of Ryan K Lindsay (Everfrost, Eternal) and so when we discovered his latest series with Sebastian Piriz (Disaster Inc) was being released via the venerable Heavy Metal magazine we knew we had to find a copy and check it out. Set upon an alien world where intergalactic refugees have been invited, can Black Beacon find a home with readers?
True love can be a tricky concept to comprehend, especially as a teenager with no experience. What constitutes love? Is it sex? Attraction? Romance? And do you need a romantic partner to be truly happy? On her summer holiday, Viola learns a lot more about love than she expected in Assia Petricelli and Sergio Ricardi’s ‘Forever’.
Sentinel was one of the biggest British hits of last year, mixing sci-fi, humour and adventure. Now the team behind that title, Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle, have launched a title aimed at younger readers called Crackpot. Inspired by the likes of The Beano and Whizzer and Chips, Crackpot is a familiar mix of mad […]
Our latest small press spotlight features a selection of comics with an horrific edged to them. They include: tortured robots in ID-10T – Error; mysterious mental patients in Busy Littles Bees; and a creepy road to hell in Clutch.
Set in a world where everyone can astral project, O.B.E. – Out of Body Experience sees detective Cole is called to a series of mysterious deaths that may or may not be connected to the mysterious institute O.B.E., home of enigmatic professor Medlock who is the practice’s leading light.
Having recently completed a successful Kickstarter Campaign, Grayham Puttock and Adam Jakes’ Longpig #1 is a horror thriller about a mysterious family with a taste for the disturbing. But is this really a delectable entree to a great new comic series or will it leave readers with a bitter taste?
Travelling through space and time to save the world from rogue dinosaurs or Russian love machines, Jonathan Stevenson and Luke Balmer Kemp’s The Disconauts is a delightfully daft and frequently hilarious comic strip adventure that is packed full of puns, flares and funky moves!
We keep an eye on and report on the use of the euro outside the euro area. The euro makes our lives simpler by enabling citizens to live, work and study abroad more easily. At the ECB, we safeguard the euro so that you can make the most of all that Europe has to offer. […]
Imagine watching others undeservedly live in the lap of luxury due to their status whilst you struggle to pay the bills, get enough food to live, and provide for your family, working every day for a pittance. Would you think that this is fair? Protagonist Frank Owen certainly doesn’t think so in Sophie and Scarlett Rickard’s faithful graphic novel adaptation of Robert Tressell’s socialist novel, ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.