White Ash #1 Charlie Stickney and Conor Hughes, 2017 Writer: Charlie Stickney Marvel Comics’ superhero title Thor, working in tandem with Neil Gaiman, an unabashed obsessive of Scandinavian mythology, would on the face of it together have mined out most of the fine grade literary ore from Asgard and its surrounds. Norse mythology no longer … Read more
Unfamiliar Skies #1-2 Sam Webster, 2016-2017 UK writer and artist Sam Webster has written a comic ideal for the pre-teen, animated Star Wars demographic. It features many of the indicia of Star Wars: interstellar spacecraft the size of cars, bug-eyed aliens (some friendly, some treacherous, some hustling for what they can get), a “void wyrm” … Read more
Purgatory: First Circle (#1) Purgatory: Lucid (#2) www.purgatorythecomic.com Writer: Don Juan Mancha III What if life after death was a different form of life? What if you needed to eat, drink, sleep, and take medication, but could remember your previous life and remember the details of your death? Writer Don Juan Mancha III has created … Read more
Polybius Dreams #1 Hypnotic Dog Comics, 2017 Writer: Benjamin Grisanti With the benefit of hindsight, it is remarkable that no one has previously thought to turn this particularly compelling urban legend into a comic book. The title, written by Benjamin Grisanti, comes at a topical time in legal circles around ownership of urban legends. The … Read more