Indie Comics Round-up: Almighties Origins, ALV, The Fourth Planet, Of Stone
This week’s indie comics round-up features: superhero origin tales in Almighties Origins; the new series from Close 2 Immortality ALV; The Fourth Planet; Of Stone.
Apes n Capes #1-4 (Bounce Comics)
Coming up with a great name for a new indie comic, can be quite the task, but with Apes n Capes writer Grainne McEntee and Matthew Rooke look set to join Kate Ashwin’s Widdershins and Ryan Jenkyns Whiskers McFadden on our ‘awesome names list’ – but can this ape-filled adventure live up to it’s epic name?!
The Pride #1-6 (Queer Comix)
Superheroes have often been used as vehicles for stories about prejudice or injustice, however when featured in the universes of the Big Two there is often a sense of token-ism as publishers look to appear to offer diversity but without going far enough. Fortunately Joe Glass’s The Pride is looking to turn that on it’s […]
Indie Comics Round-up: Ch05en: Grizz, Spiral, Start Up, Street Tiger
We’ve a mixed bag of titles in this week’s indie comics round-up featuring: superheroes on a mission for revenge getting caught up in a deathmatch tournament in Ch05en: Grizz; warring south London families in throwback crime drama Spiral; wholesome family superhero adventures in Start Up; and Tarantino-inspired grindhouse violence in Ertito Montana’s Street Tiger.
Karma Police #1-4 (Comics Experience)
What comes after life? This has been a question with answers depicted throughout all entertainment mediums and comics are no exception. From Heaven (Afterlife Inc) to Hell (Hellbreak), all possibilities have been written about. Well, now Reincarnation is added to that list, with Karma Police, an action story detailing a group of monks looking to […]
Kickstarter of the week: PI Charles
Charles is a private eye, but not just any PI – he’s a robot, and so thanks to his machine logic he struggles to comprehend the emotional complexities of the crimes of passion he is required to solve. Plus, like any good PI he does this while drinking and smoking – not because he enjoys, just because […]
What if: Indie/small press creators worked on the DC Rebirth.
In mid January, comics writer and columnist Joe Glass posted a question on his Twitter feed which went along the lines of ‘what DC comic would I be most suited to write if asked?’ This was a question I responded to, starting a discussion which ended at True Believers between us about what he would […]
Kickstarter of the Week: The Pride Hardcover Collected Edition
This week’s Kickstarter of the Week sees Joe Glass, writer and creator of The Pride launches a campaign to raise funds for the printing of a massive, oversized hardcover collection of the LGBTQ+ superhero action adventure series, The Pride.
The Pull List #1 – Our Friends Electricomics
After weeks of working behind closed doors we can finally reveal our brand new product from the team here at Pipedream Comics as we launch the first issue of The Pull List, a new quarterly magazine dedicated to the world of small press, indie and digital comics. This first issue is packed with exclusive news, reviews and interviews with some of comics’ […]
Marvel Infinite Comics Round-up: Deadpool & Cable: Split Second, Amazing Spider-man & Silk: The Spider(Fly) Effect), Daredevil/Punisher: Seventh Circle, Marvel Universe Avengers, Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy
It’s was a bit quiet in the world of Marvel Infinite comics in 2015, but in recent months there seems to have been something of a deluge as we see fantastic team-ups from big name Marvel heroes strutting their stuff in the world of cutting edge digital comics. We round-up some of the best featuring Deadpool & Cable, […]