Tokyo Ghost (hardcover collected edition) Image Comics, July 2017 Writer: Rick Remender Primitivism, the melange of both wistful fantasy and philosophy, is founded in the premise that a simpler life is inherently better than the complexity of modern life. It has its Anglophone origins with Matthew Arnold, an English writer who espoused through his work … Read more
Redneck Volume 1 Image Comics: Trade Paperback: October 2017 Writer: Donny Cates In the American vernacular, a “redneck” is a term: a. used for a white person, often from the south-eastern United States; and b. is also often associated with poverty, a lack of education or cultural sophistication, and a fundamentalist belief in the Christian … Read more
Hit-Girl #1 Image Comics, February 2018 Writer: Mark Millar In February 2008, Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar created a comic book series titled Kick-Ass for American publisher Marvel Comics (via its Icon imprint). This comic told the story of a teenager, Dave Lizeweski, who decided to become a real-life superhero despite not having any … Read more
Rocket Girl Volume 1 Written by Brandon Montclare Publisher: Image Comics Trade Paperback: October 2016 Science fiction novelist Poul Anderson has his Time Patrol books, in which time police destroys rogue fictional realities (a series of novels running from 1955 to 1995). Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity, from 1955 is very similar. More recently, … Read more