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Weekly Preview! AfterShock, Refugees, WWI, Kaiju, and more!

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There are a lot of comics coming out this week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning!

This week’s reviews include:

  • Hakim’s Odyssey Book 2 From Turkey to Greece (Graphic Mundi)
  • Kaiju Score: Steal From the Gods #1 (AfterShock)
  • Midnight Rose (AfterShock)
  • Serial (Abstract Studios)
  • The Stretcher Bearers (Dead Reckoning)

Not shown:

  • Days of Sand (SelfMadeHero)
  • Ghost in You: A Reckless Book (Image Comics)
  • Life Zero #3 (Ablaze)

AfterShock, Graphic Mundi, and Dead Reckoning provided Graphic Policy with FREE copies for review

Days of Sand is a Depression-era tale based on work of photographer John Clark

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United States, 1937. In the middle of the Great Depression, 22-year-old photographer John Clark is brought in by the Farm Security Administration to document the calamitous conditions of the Dust Bowl in the central and southern states, in order to bring the farmers’ plight to the public eye.

When he starts working through his shooting script, however, he  finds his subjects to be unreceptive. What good are a couple of photos against relentless and deadly dust storms? The more he shoots, the more John discovers the awful extent of their struggles, coming to question his own role and responsibilities in this tragedy sweeping through the center of the country.

A moving and unforgettable tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance against all odds.

Days of Sand, by Aimée de Jongh, is based on true events. In 1937, the federal FSA agency hired photographers to document the lives of farmers across the United States. The Dust Bowl was an oval-shaped region in the Mid-South, that was struck by severe droughts and heavily blowing dust storms. These storms carried so much sand and dust, that they could block all sunlight, turning days into nights. A total of 2.5 million inhabitants decided to leave the area, mostly toward California, in search of a better life. They became climate refugees – 90 years ago.

To research the story of Days of Sand, Aimée made a study trip to Oklahoma and California. She received a travel fund from the Dutch Foundation for Literature to make this trip possible. In 10 days, she drove from Oklahoma, through the old Dust Bowl area, to California. On the way, she stopped at museums and archives, to interview experts of the Dust Bowl and FSA history. A detailed travelogue of this trip is available in English on her blog.

Days of Sand

Review: Call Me Nathan

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Assigned female at birth, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers. As puberty hits and begins to change his body, it all just feels wrong, and something needs to change for it to feel right. He finds himself at a crucial crossroads. Becoming oneself is the work of a lifetime, no matter our gender, sexuality, or refusal to be limited by such categorizations.

Step into Nathan’s world and watch him discover one’s true self through transition.

Story: Catherine Castro
Art: Quentin Zuttion
Translation: Evan McGorray

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Amazon
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Bookshop

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Preview: Call Me Nathan

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Call Me Nathan

(W) Catherine Castro (A) Quentin Zuttion
In Shops: Apr 06, 2022
SRP: $19.99

Born as biologically female, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers, social ostracism from his peers, and incomprehension from his family-because from as early as he can remember, he knows he has been born in the wrong body. But, as his family comes to recognize, a physical identity is harder to change than a piece of clothing or a haircut. So from the moment he is at last supplied with a professional term for his self-diagnosis-“gender dysphoria”-he is able to leave behind his complicated psychological history, the challenges of his self-harming, and his struggles with sexual identity, and begin the difficult process of claiming his true self.

Call Me Nathan

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Call Me Nathan

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Batman: Beyond the White Knight #1 (DC Comics) – We’re intrigued where Sean Gordon Murphy takes his sandbox of the DC world in this latest series and volume.

Call Me Nathan (SelfMadeHero) – Based on the true story of one person’s transition.

Cities of Magick #1 (Scout Comics) – It’s a decade-old war between to powerful magick clans!

DC vs. Vampires #6 (DC Comics) – Who’s the Vampire King? We find out!

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Saturday Morning Adventures #2 (IDW Publishing) – The first issue perfectly capture the feel of the cartoon series in every aspect.

Immortal X-Men #1 (Marvel) – The next phase of the world of the X-Men really kicks off here courtesy of Kieron Gillen and Lucas Werneck. We’re intrigued what this duo can bring and how things shift.

The Killer: Affairs of State #2 (BOOM! Studios/Archaia) – The first issue gave us a new status-quo for The Killer. Now working for French Intelligence, the series seems like it’s focused on corrupt government officials and delivers the same complex stories we’ve come to enjoy.

My Date with Monsters #5 (AfterShock) – The series has been a great mix of horror, comedy, and rom com and we’re intrigued and excited to see how it all wraps up.

Ranger Stranger #2 (Scout Comics) – The first issue was short comics that hand us laughing out loud and crying from laughing so hard. Here’s hoping the second delivers a similar amount of insanity.

Season of the Bruja #1 (Oni Press) – A story of magic that looks to have a solid amount of real world culture and history mixed in based on the writer’s own family’s traditions.

Preview: Call Me Nathan

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Call Me Nathan

(W) Catherine Castro (A) Quentin Zuttion
In Shops: Apr 06, 2022
SRP: $19.99

Born as biologically female, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers, social ostracism from his peers, and incomprehension from his family-because from as early as he can remember, he knows he has been born in the wrong body. But, as his family comes to recognize, a physical identity is harder to change than a piece of clothing or a haircut. So from the moment he is at last supplied with a professional term for his self-diagnosis-“gender dysphoria”-he is able to leave behind his complicated psychological history, the challenges of his self-harming, and his struggles with sexual identity, and begin the difficult process of claiming his true self.

Call Me Nathan

Weekly Preview! 3 from AfterShock, Pinball, Parents Talking, and a Story of Transition

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There are a lot of comics coming out this week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning!

This week’s reviews include:

  • Almost American #5 (AfterShock)
  • Call Me Nathan (SelfMadeHero)
  • The Heathens #5 (AfterShock)
  • My Date With Monsters #5 (AfterShock)
  • My Parents Won’t Stop Talking (Roaring Brook Press)
  • Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball (First Second Books)

Already reviewed:

AfterShock, SelfMadeHero, Roaring Brook Press, and First Second provided Graphic Policy with FREE copies for review

Call Me Nathan is a true story celebrating gender identity

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Call Me Nathan

Assigned female at birth, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers. As puberty hits and begins to change his body, it all just feels wrong, and something needs to change for it to feel right. He finds himself at a crucial crossroads. Becoming oneself is the work of a lifetime, no matter our gender, sexuality, or refusal to be limited by such categorizations.

For Nathan, his courageous first steps towards discovering his true self happen through transition. Based on a true story, Catherine Castro and Quentin Zuttion explore the tenacity and bravery that such a journey entails while society continues to wrestle with the meaning of identity.

Call Me Nathan issues a moving call for understanding, a powerful denunciation of prejudice and celebration of everything it means to love. The graphic novel is out March 29th in the US and March 31st in the UK.

SelfMadeHero will publish The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel in December

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Since its original publication in 1914, Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists has been a secret weapon of the grass-roots Left in Britain. Perhaps the first novel written by a working man about his working life, the utterly human story it tells scrutinizes the capitalist system with clarity and sharp wit. This beautiful, accessible, and engaging new graphic novel adaptation, by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard, has brought the message to a new generation of readers in the UK and is now available in North America.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists traces the political awakening of Frank Owen, and the team of painter-decorators with whom he works, and whose stories are intertwined with his. Exploited by profiteering employers, abandoned by a hypocritical church, and oppressed by corrupt politicians, Owen confronts head-on the greed and dishonesty of the pre-War capitalist system. As profoundly relevant as it is today, however, this is no dry political tract. Instead, the 350 full-colour pages of Scarlett and Sophie Rickard’s sumptuous adaptation celebrate the joys of fellowship and creative endeavour as beautifully as they convey the ugliness of its exploitation.

An inspiration to successive generations of political thinkers for over 100 years, Robert Tressell’s paean to the working man and woman here finds its perfect medium. Orwell called Tressell’s novel “a book that everyone should read”; the Rickards’ adaptation is a work of art that everyone should see.

The graphic novel is out December 14th.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Marvel, Image, BOOM!, and More! ComiXology has Your Digital Releases Covered!

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WHATS THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE #1

It’s new comic book day and comiXology has your digital comics covered. Check out the releases below by the publisher or start shopping now!

Ablaze

AfterShock

Archie Comics

AWA Studios

Behemoth

BOOM! Studios

Dark Horse Comics

DC Thomson

Devil’s Due Comics

Dynamite Entertainment

Harlequin

Humanoids

IDW Publishing

Image Comics

Keenspot

la Boîte à Bulles

Marvel

Oni Press

Papercutz

Red 5 Comics

SelfMadeHero

Tidalwave Productions

Titan Comics

Vault Comics

Zenescope

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