June 21, 2025 11:17 am

The Cull (volume 1) (review)

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Mattia de Iulius Image Comics, April 2024 Beachside caves in fiction are dangerous places harbouring strange inhabitants. Homer warned us about this in The Odyssey, when Odysseus and his crew stupidly thought the smorgasbord in the dark cave was altruistically left for them. Two and a half thousand years of storytelling later, in The Cull, five high school students named Cleo, Wade, Will, Lux, and Kaitie decide to film a motion picture on the beach and wander into a littoral cave, and they encounter much more than they were expecting. Here is Image Comics’ promotional pitch for this collected volume, published last year (somehow, we missed it): Eisner-winning writer KELLY THOMPSON (BLACK CLOAK) and superstar artist MATTIA DE IULIS (Captain America) team up for their first creator-owned work togetherSomething is Killing the Children horror vibes mix with The Goonies-style adventure as five friends set off to

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Miss Morpho #1 (review)

Writer: Bryan Swann Artist: Joseph Arnold Bare Bones Conics, June 2025 This title, Miss Morpho #1, reminds us of an old issue of The Sandman. In 1989, British writer Neil Gaiman blew the dust off an obscure DC Comics superhero named Element Girl, and used her in a story called “Facade” appearing in The Sandman #20. Element Girl (Rainie Blackwell) was the female associate of a superhero character called Metamorpho. Until that issue, Rainie had been long-forgotten as an obscure character by DC Comics’ usual readership. Mr Gaiman depicted Rainie as an isolated, deeply depressed woman, longing for death and, by reason of her formidable superpowers, unable to achieve it. Miss Morpho has powers that are extremely similar to that of Element Girl, and in addition she has her own mental illness. While Rainie sat alone in the dark alone, Miss Morpho is a popular superhero with a good relationship

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Westron #1 (review)

Writers: Shawn Macbee and Maciej “MJ” Jankowski Artists: Nicolás Nieto and Matías De Vincenzo Fandom Limb, June 2025 A new, independent title called Westron features a curious

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Carnet de Voyage (review)

Creator: Craig Thompson Faber Press, 2018 (expanded edition) This autobiographical travelogue was first written in 2004 by Craig Thomson, an American creator who had very

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Paul is Dead (review)

Writer: Paulo Baron Artist: Ernesto Carbonetti Image Comics, June 2020 The promotional copy for Paul is Dead, now five years old, reads as follows: John

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Speed Racer #0 (Review)

Writer: David Pepose Artist: Davide Tinto Mad Cave Comics, 2025 In 1966, Japanese author Tatsu Yoshida created a manga series that revolves around a teenage

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Heavy Metal Queen (review)

Author: Kevin Michael Roberts Red Line Comics November 2024 Overview Heavy Metal Queen is a sci-fi space action thriller written and illustrated by Kevin Michael

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