January 10, 2025 1:39 pm

Buck Rogers 2425 (Review)

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 Phillip Nowlan. The novel featured a character called Anthony Rogers. Like that other famous Rogers in comic books (Captain America), Rogers is a present-day man who found himself emerging years into the future, after waking up from suspended animation. Rogers would go on to feature in his own comic strip titled Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. The strip is written by Nowlan, with illustration provided by Dick Calkins. The comic strips have entered the public domain this month. This gives creators the opportunity to craft and publish new adventures for the time-displaced Buck Rogers. One of the first comic book publishers to do so is new California-based publisher Array Comics, in the title Buck Rogers 2425. Buck Rogers 2425 is written and drawn

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“It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth”(review)

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 Stephenson seemed to be at a loss as to what to write, his fingers tangled on his keyboard as he struggled to be upbeat about a title which is generally not upbeat at all. It does not seem to be especially accurate factually, either: It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth, an original graphic novel by up-and-comer Zoe Thorogood (The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, Joe Hill’s Rain), will hit shelves from Image Comics this November. In It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. This fresh and thought provoking auto-bio-graphic is an intimate and

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The New Gods #1 (review)

Writer: Ram V Artist: Evan Cagle DC Comics, December 2024 Here is DC Comics’ promotional copy for this new title: An old god has died,

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Kyra Chronicles #2 (Review)

Creator: Antonio Rubbini 2024 Created by Antonio Rubbini, Kyra Chronicles is an action comic book series set in a fictional version of Brooklyn, New York.

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Nymphobots #1 (review)

Writer: Paul Venstra Artist: Breno Braga Independently published, April 2024 Nymphobots is a sci-fi/cyberpunk comic book mini-series written by Paul Veenstra and illustrated by Breno

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Aliens v Avengers #1 (review)

Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Esad Ribić Marvel Comics / 20th Century Studios, December 2024 How appropriate that we publish a review on a sci-fi /

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The Coffee Table (review)

Kieran Alexander – writer Christopher Wood – artist Independently published, 2023 When we write a review for this website, we think about the best way

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