Lost Falls Season 2 #4
Story: Curt Pires
Art: Pierluigi Minotti
Color: Emilio Lecce
Letterer: Micah Myers
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Our heroes confront their darkest fears and deepest nightmares as they enter the creatures lair. Will they be able to overcome the darkness? Isaac makes a decision.
Lost Falls Season 2 #4
Story: Curt Pires
Art: Pierluigi Minotti
Color: Emilio Lecce
Letterer: Micah Myers
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Our heroes confront their darkest fears and deepest nightmares as they enter the creatures lair. Will they be able to overcome the darkness? Isaac makes a decision.
You’ve Been Cancelled Vol. 1
(W) Curt Pires (A) Kevin Castaniero
(C) Jason Wordie (L) Micah Myers
The Running Man and Squid Game meet the kinetic martial arts action of The Raid: Redemption in this fresh and ambitious graphic novel. In the near future, cancel culture means more than just losing your job…it could mean your life.
CANCELLED is the world’s premier entertainment event – a live-streamed program where elite bounty hunters called “Cancellers” kill individuals who society has voted to “cancel” following heinous actions or offenses. But CANCELLED is not just a form of violent entertainment. It’s one of the last forms of upward mobility for an increasingly oppressed lower / middle class. Want to escape the gig economy? Pay off your crushing student debt? Cover your sick parents’ medical bills? CANCELLED just might be your way out. But you’re going to have to get your hands dirty.
Simulation Theory #4
Written by Curt Pires
Art by Darryl Knickrehm
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The Battle Of New Atlantis.
Ash and her new allies try and fight off Rez and the Nu-Life army.
Mariko Between Worlds
(W) Matthew Erman (A) Liana Kangas
(C) Rebecca Nalty (L) Micah Myers
Mariko and Rem are breaking up but they have one last night together in the Mall of Portals, an inter-dimensional consumerist heaven full of unending vice, before Rem takes his new job doing data entry on the Moon of Plenty. With a couple hours to spare, no personal repercussions and entire dimensions at their fingertips — what’s the worse that could happen?
This out of this world rom-com is straight out of the year 2099, but speaks to a feeling that time will never change. The fear of loss.
Artist Liana Kangas and author Matthew Erman team up to create a world of lust and star dust. Find yourself navigating the human condition with the most out of this galaxy characters. Mariko Between Worlds is down to earth and completely off the wall swarming with magic portals and sexy aliens.
Whisper of the Woods
(W/A) Ennun Ana Iurov (L) Micah Myers
What happens when a foreigner doesn’t listen to the local’s warnings and dives head-first into a haunted forest?
In search of his missing friend, Adam travels to the heart of Romania’s most supernatural forest, Hoia Baciu. Disregarding the local’s warnings of iele hunting the men in the vicinity, and the witch’s premonition of his impending death, he remains steadfast in his decision to find his friend. Though with every passing night, it becomes impossible to ignore the happenings around him…
Whisper of the Woods
(W/A) Ennun Ana Iurov (L) Micah Myers
What happens when a foreigner doesn’t listen to the local’s warnings and dives head-first into a haunted forest?
In search of his missing friend, Adam travels to the heart of Romania’s most supernatural forest, Hoia Baciu. Disregarding the local’s warnings of iele hunting the men in the vicinity, and the witch’s premonition of his impending death, he remains steadfast in his decision to find his friend. Though with every passing night, it becomes impossible to ignore the happenings around him…
Maverick and Mad Cave Studios have announced Confetti Realms, an original graphic novel from writer Nadia Shammas, illustrated by Karnessa, and colored by Hakto Oshiro, publishing October 31, 2023.
On Halloween night, when the moon is full, teenagers get up to mischief. But when an encounter with a giant, sentient puppet in a graveyard sends four teens to a mysterious dimension called the Confetti Realms, they must overcome obstacles in their own friendships–and collect the debted teeth owed to the puppet–in order to make their way home.
But the allure of staying in a fantasy world is a hard one to beat, and going home to their normal lives is starting to sound less and less appealing for some. Will these friends return home?
Featuring a diverse cast of characters, this Tim Burton-esque, comedic, modern, and high-energy story is written by Harvey Award-winner Nadia Shammas, with art by Karnessa and colors by Hackto Oshiro.
Edited by Lauren Hitzhuzen and lettered by Micah Myers, Confetti Realms is slated for release October 2023 and is now available for pre-order from Maverick.
Mariko Between Worlds
(W) Matthew Erman (A) Liana Kangas
(C) Rebecca Nalty (L) Micah Myers
Mariko and Rem are breaking up but they have one last night together in the Mall of Portals, an inter-dimensional consumerist heaven full of unending vice, before Rem takes his new job doing data entry on the Moon of Plenty. With a couple hours to spare, no personal repercussions and entire dimensions at their fingertips — what’s the worse that could happen?
This out of this world rom-com is straight out of the year 2099, but speaks to a feeling that time will never change. The fear of loss.
Artist Liana Kangas and author Matthew Erman team up to create a world of lust and star dust. Find yourself navigating the human condition with the most out of this galaxy characters. Mariko Between Worlds is down to earth and completely off the wall swarming with magic portals and sexy aliens.
American Psycho #1 is an interesting comic. It’s one I can’t tell what it’s trying to do. Is it just an extension of the original story along with a new story? Or, is it commentary about consumerism and pop culture, like it’s own version of Patrick Bateman’s rants about Huey Lewis and the News. It’s not easy figuring that out after one single issue.
The debut issue features two stories, one set during the time of the original book/film (I’ve only seen the film) and another more modern tale set in 2011.
For the first half, we’re introduced to a new character who delivers a new perspective. Patrick Bateman’s killing spree is just happening and we get to see it all from the new character’s eyes. It’s “new revelations” from the world of American Psycho and I’m not sure if seeing it from a “whole new lens” really adds much… yet. For those who dive in, things might feel a bit off with the new character, like maybe it’s all in Patrick’s head or something but nope, it’s a new psycho with his own issues and then it connects to the original.
So far, it doesn’t really add anything to that story other than New York had a lot of psychos in the 80s. There might be something more profound but it hasn’t delivered that yet.
The second story introduces a new psychopath based in 2011. With the beginning of social media, it should be interesting to see where it all goes but the setup feels more Scream than American Psycho. Like the other story, it’s hard to tell if this will really “say” anything or just be another body count. There’s also an oddity about Patrick Bateman’s killing spree being called “infamous” and it not being brought up in the second story. There really hasn’t been a chance to organically yet, but if one doesn’t mention the other, then it throws a whole lot of questions into the mix.
Writer Michael Calero has a difficult task ahead and I’m intrigued to see where it all goes but the start feels more like the property’s name is slapped on than a real deep dive as to what made the original work. It’s hard to do in one comic since the original material is actually a slow psychotic build. Maybe as a collection or if it were a graphic novel it’d read a bit better. We’ll have to wait and see as releases come out.
The art by Piotr Kowalski is good. It hits the beats and there’s some interesting details thrown in but overall the look is rather generic. It never quite embraces 80s or even 10s New York City. Nothing in the art really stands out to me about the time at all. It’s not bad, it just lacks a personality. Kowalski is joined on color by Brad Simpson and lettering by Micah Myers. Myers lettering does stand out as the narrative is mostly in a journal of the new psycho and there’s something about the lettering that gives us insight into who this person is. It’s both controlled and off at the same time.
American Psycho #1 isn’t a bad comic but it just doesn’t deliver the same witty commentary of its source material. It’s just the first issue though and this is likely going to be a miniseries that’ll have to be judged on the whole and not individual parts.
Story: Michael Calero Art: Piotr Kowalski
Color: Brad Simpson Letterer: Micah Myers
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.25 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Read
Sumerian provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Purchase: TFAW – Zeus Comics
