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Creator: Sid Quade Funcertainty Box, 2024 Our favourite curmudgeon were-hyena/goat returns in Gridley #2. We very enjoyed much enjoyed the first issue of this title: consider our review from January 2024: https://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/2024/01/16/gridley-1-review-the-exile/ . Giles Gridley, a Kaftar sorcerer, is in exile and forced to slum it with the hoi polloi, but he has quickly found gainful employment as an ectomancer in a dusty Western town. Creator Sid Quade helpfully in this issue provides us with a breakdown of the three different types of sorcery in his universe: That’s Gridley in the middle. Gridley is brilliant in his art, but detached from social etiquette, and so inevitably Mr Quade decides to give Gridley an apprentice, named Hester Ariti, to bring Gridley back to earth and to act as Gridley’s foil. Hester resembles a hyper-cute house cat and sounds like a yokel, and the aristocratic Gridley responds with distaste. (We have started
Writer: Ryan K Lindsay Art: Sami Kivela Mad Cave Studios, May 2024 A large deer is an investigative journalist in a large semi-rural town, dealing with the consequences of looking too closely at government corruption. Yes, you read that correctly. Here is the promotional copy for Deer Editor from publisher Mad Cave Studios: A John Doe slaying lures a journalist into a world of political intrigue, a wi-fi-enabled grotto, and a station locker full of secrets. For Bucky, an editor of the crime beat at “The Truth,” it’s all in a day’s work……but he also happens to be a deer.Will he chase down his last story in this antler noir series? Deer Editor is perfect for fans of Blacksad and Chinatown. “Antler noir”? Puns aplenty from Mad Cave’s marketing team, but this summary glosses over the story. Bucky (the deer’s name, of course) is a likeable protagonist who commands the respect
Writer: Tom King Art: Jeff Spokes DC Comics (Black Label imprint), October 2024 Tempus fugit. Twenty-four years ago, writer Warren Ellis observed the end of
Creator: Brian “Box” Brown First Second Books, 2023 This somewhat depressing title was published last year. Here is the promotional copy: Brian “Box” Brown brings
Created by Gardner Fox (writer) and Murphy Anderson (artist) DC Comics, October 1964 American superhero comic books have long had a history of adding sidekicks
Creator: Owen Pomery Avery Hill Press, October 2023 The promotional copy for this title is set out below: The time approaches when the mineral that
Writer: Steve Cronin Artist – Sergi Domench Independently published, 2024 Runes is an adventure into a remote Scottish region by two scientists, Dr Cal Norton
Written by: Geoff JohnsArt by: Mikel Janín DC Comics, March 2024 This title is a 12-issue maxi-series, written by DC Comics’ former Chief Creative Officer
Writer: David PeposeArtist: Jonathan LauDynamite, July 3rd, 2024 When we reviewed Space Ghost’s first issue, we praised it for being an effective plot springboard while
Gun Honey Writer: Charles Ardai Artist: Ang Hor Kheng Titan Comics, 2024 Queen & Country Writer: Greg Rucka Artists: Steve Rolston, Brian Hurrt, Leandro Fernandez,
Writer: Rodney Barnes Artist: Ramon Rosanas Marvel Comics, September 2024 With characters introduced in the television series Obi-wan Kenobi, here comes Inquisitors, a new four
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