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Writer: Jed MacKay Artist: Valerio Schiti Marvel Comics, June 2025 What a fun read. The Avengers #25 is part of a big continuity-wide event engineered by American superhero beehive Marvel Comics. Perennial villain Dr Doom has acquired the magical powers of the Sorcerer Supreme. Dr Doom has a decidedly autocratic bent, and so even as an ostensibly benign “saviour” of humanity, Doom finds himself offside with Earth’s superheroes. The opening page of this issue features Doom at the core of crackling chaos, reeking of mystic power and laying waste to the cast of characters. One of the Avengers, Captain America, finds himself injured in the battle, with lacerations, a broken arm, and broken ribs. This is Sam Wilson, a version of Captain America once known as The Falcon, who (in his own words) has “a shield and some wings and I can talk to birds”. Wilson is a character who
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 race car driver named Go Mifune and his high-tech automobile, dubbed the Mach 5. The manga was given the title Mach GoGoGo, and was serialized in Shueshia’s magazine Shonen Book (which was the precursor to the popular Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.) A year later, Mach GoGoGo was adapted into an anime series. This anime was rebranded as “Speed Racer” and released to the west, becoming one of the first few successful Japanese animation to make its way to the U.S. screen. The dubbed version, while taking liberties with dialogue and editing, became a hit and earned a devoted young fanbase. These young fans, adults now, might be the target market for Mad Cave Studios’ comic book adaptation of the Speed Racer series. Mad Cave is
Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Hayden Sherman DC Comics, January 2025 This high voltage adventure, penned by Kelly Thompson and with art by Hayden Sherman, continues
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
Creator: Carol Adlam Jonathan Cape, June 2024 The creator of this title has a curriculum vitae that would put almost all creative talents to shame:
Writer, letterer: Ryan Ladner Artist: Guilherme Raffide Thrill Comics, December 2024 What little we know of the city of Memphis, Tennessee could be written on
Creator: Fredrik Rysjedal Independently published, 2024 The scarification of the childhood psyche by overly cautious parents seems to be a universal phenomen. “Watching too much
Written, drawn, and lettered by Karima Lacroix Self-published, December 2024. Isadora’s Feet is a short graphic novel set in Montreal, Canada, and follows Laleh, as
Creator: Milo Manara Fantagraphics, December 2024 In June 2010, news outlets reported that scientists discovered the bones of the Old Master best known as Caravaggio.
Creator: Robert Beaucage Array Comics, January 2025 In 1928, the anthology magazine Amazing Stories published a sci fi novel titled Armageddon 2419 A.D., written by
Creator: Zoe Thorogood Image Comics: September 2023 (fourth printing). Below is the substance of a press release issued by Image Comics in May 2022. Mr
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