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June 13, 2026 12:36 am

Lionborne #1 (Review)

Neil Raymundo June 13, 2026 No Comments

Creator: Kang Jing Chiral Comics, May 2026 Kang Jing’s Lionborne #1 knows exactly what kind of comic it wants to be. The first issue introduces seventeen-year-old Jayden Lee, a Singaporean teenager suddenly burdened with the power of Simha, one of the oldest and most powerful spirit beasts. Long ago, Simha put down a rebellion led by the cobra spirit Olephis by doing something forbidden: separating Olephis’ power from his physical form and reducing him to an ordinary snake. Because that punishment violated the spirit beasts’ code, Simha suffered the same fate. He now exists as little more than a cat, while his power passes from host to host, this time landing with Jayden. Here is the promotional copy: Jayden Lee is a seventeen year old trying to find a way to pass his exams, but he is also something much greater; He is the champion of Simha, the Lion Spirit

The Deadman #1 (review)

DG Stewart June 11, 2026 No Comments

Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artist: Martin Morazzo DC Comics, August 2026 Fresh from their wonderfully chaotic moment on Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum comes writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Martin Morazzo with a very fresh take DC Comics’ favourite ghost, Deadman. Deadman first appeared in Strange Adventures #607 (1967), but which was a prominent addition to Adventure Comics, which by the late 1970s was an anthology series consisting of very short vignettes of the likes of Aquaman, Plastic Man, and other characters which did not have a permanent home. Deadman – a murdered circus acrobat named Boston Brand – was often lost in his quest to find his murderer, sidetracked by various crimes into which he intervened through his power of possession. Deadman, particularly as drawn by Neal Adams, was a gliding figure, sailing through the air like the trapeze artist he once was, his very distinctive rigid collar framing his