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!
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’.
A teenage boy looking for love is transformed into a swamp monster. A pregnant woman turns into a tree. A secret agent following the orders of a sinister balloon marries a human goat. I Feel Love is, it is fair to say, not your traditional anthology.
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.
TKO Studios latest raft of titles are heading in a new and exciting direction, we check out Djeliya, a fantasy story based on many African folklore stories by new creator Juni Ba.
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.
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.