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Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Hayden Sherman DC Comics, December 2024 If the editorial mandate set down for the writers of the Absolute titles was to improve upon the each of the featured characters’ origins, then they have succeeded, and none more so than writer Kelly Thompson. Ms Thompson has been assigned Absolute Wonder Woman, a storyline presenting an alternative vision of one of American comic book publisher DC Comics’ iconic characters. There is not much wrong with this first issue, at all. There have been any number of online reviews talking about this refreshing take on a character which is now in her 80th decade. For us, as longstanding fans of the character, Wonder Woman’s message of peace is fruitless and even tone-deaf given what is currently happening in Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti and other troubled places. This storyline is however different. Wonder Woman is in this version a
Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artists: Various Image Comics, 2021 IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE reading any one of the six issues of HAHA SAD CLOWN STORIES singly as originally published, and still manage to read the rest. One shot and a hapless reader is likely to drift off, only glimpses seen since: transformed, turned to something else, or somewhere else entirely. To stay on course, get the collected stories by writer W. Maxwell Prince and various collaborating artists, and brace for a gentle, maniacal feast of fun, haha, from the clown’s point of view. In these six stories, illustrated in succession by collaborating artists Vanesa del Rey, Zoe Thorogood, Roger Langridge, Patrick Horvath, Gabriel Hernández Walta, and Martín Morazzo, the motion of the twisting plots and art carry you unexpectedly somewhere beyond the laughable, beyond the grimaceable, something you might have wanted to disown if it had not already reached out
Writer: Chuck Cox Artist: Tera W. Royal House Comics / Black Astronaut ADVENTURE ABOUNDS in the premiere issue of BAND OF THE BLACK FIST, featuring
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
Creator: Kit Anderson Avery Hill Press, 2024 FOR ONE SMALL MOMENT we help an other live: in memory, in experience, in action, in desperate times
Writer: Henry Chebaane Artist: Stephen Baskerville Supanova Media 2023 BINGE AN HOUR or three through the recently released 200-page graphic novel THE PANHARMONION CHRONICLES, and
Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Esad Ribić Marvel Comics / 20th Century Studios, December 2024 How appropriate that we publish a review on a sci-fi /
Kieran Alexander – writer Christopher Wood – artist Independently published, 2023 When we write a review for this website, we think about the best way
Creator: Dustin Weaver ( @dustinweaver12 ) Image Comics, June 2024 We were delighted to have stumbled across this title in a book shop, and dismayed
Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Nick Dragotta DC Comics, October 2024 A hulking Batman, akin more to a ridiculous professional wrestler than the traditional gymnast’s physique,
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel Art: Lee Sullivan Titan Comics, 2016-2017 Writer Ben Aaronovitch has for around a decade penned a series of novels
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