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Review: Paradox Girl #1

One of my favorite actors of all time is Michael Keaton. Growing up he acted in a more than a few movies that pretty much formed my sense of humor. He primarily acted in comedies until the two Batman movies he did, but then he moved to more dramas and other serious fare. One of his best movies after Gung Ho, is Multiplicity, one where his character gets himself cloned so he can do other things.

The movie was both funny and made you think, of the possibilities of what can do if they could make copies of themselves, just how productive you can be. The last time I remember a movie character doing something similar, is Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen. What if you could time travel and make copies of yourself? This is the premise that is featured in the series, Paradox Girl and what the reader is introduced to in the first issue.

We meet our titular character and her hundreds of copies in the first few pages, and how they go about getting through their day, and how many times they have traveled through time. We soon find out how she got her powers in the first place and just about habitually late she is despite her abilities. We also meet one of her superpowered friends, Axiom Man, who keeps her on track and helps fight monsters. By issue’s end, she gets her favorite waffles from 1985, saves the city from a kaiju, trains with Axiom Man, and lives to fight another day.

Overall, an excellent debut issue that feels like it is going 100 miles per hour and never lets you go. The story by Cayti Elle Borquin is very funny and action packed. The art by Yishan Li is gorgeous and vivid. Altogether, a raucous series that will have you in stitches and  will make you wonder what would you do in PG’s shoes.

Story: Cayti Elle Borquin Art: Yishan Li
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Buy

Preview: Assassin’s Creed Uprising​ ​ #4

Assassin’s Creed Uprising #4

Writers: Dan Watters and Alex Paknadel
Artist: José Holder
Cover A: José Holder & Marco Lesko
Cover B: Yishan Li
Cover C: Adam Gorham
FC – 32pp – $3.99 – On sale: May 24, 2017

END OF ARC 1!

Discovering a link dating back to the Spanish Civil War, Charlotte de la Cruz entered the Animus in the hopes of learning more about the mysterious enemies that have the Assassin Brotherhood on high alert, but now finds her self trapped in the limbo-like Memory Corridor. Worse of all, it seems an ally is not all they appear to be…

Aces Weekly Asks You to Pick a Card, Any Card

Aces Weekly, the on-line comic magazine, founded in 2012 by David Lloyd and Bambos Georgiou, has announced the release of a set of collectible “trading cards”, which give purchasers access to volumes of the award-winning publication.

Each of the ten cards features an image from a specific volume on one side and a unique code on the other, which allows access to that volume. Volumes feature at least six different stories spanning seven issues and are often over 200 pages in length.

The cards are limited editions of 100 per volume, and are available from direct sales comic shops retailing for £6.99 for one card.

The first ten volumes feature a stellar line-up of established talent such as David Lloyd,  Herb Trimpe, Marc Hempel, Henry Flint, James Hudnall, Val Mayerik, JC Vaughn, Mark Wheatley, Phil Hester, John McCrea, Yishan Li, Algesiras, Alain Mauricet, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Roger Langridge, Dan Christensen, Kev Hopgood, Ferg Handley, Dave Hine, Shaky Kane, Keith Burns, Lew Stringer, Carl Critchlow, Phil Elliott, Lew Stringer, Stephen Baskerville, Jim Hansen, Mychailo Kazybrid, David Leach, Batton Lash, Jimmy Broxton and Bambos Georgiou.

Aces Weekly has also managed to launch plenty of breakout creators during those first ten volumes, including Paul McCaffrey, David Hitchcock, Ben Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Esteban Hernandez, Kathryn Layno, Jok, Santullo, Rachael Smith and Lawrence Beveridge of the Fearless Vampire Killers, to name but a few.

The cards feature the following artist;

Volume 1 David Lloyd
Volume 2 Henry Flint
Volume 3 Marc Hempel
Volume 4 Herb Trimpe
Volume 5 Shaky Kane
Volume 6 Roger Langridge
Volume 7 Nardo Conforti
Volume 8 Paul McCaffrey
Volume 9 Val Mayerik
Volume 10 Keith Burns

Comic shops can obtain wholesale prices and order sets of cards by contacting Bambos Georgiou at info@acesweekly.co.uk

Preview: Sherlock: The Blind Banker #1

SHERLOCK THE BLIND BANKER #1

Writer: Stephen Thompson
Co-Creators: Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss
Artist: Jay.
Cover A: Jay.
Cover B: Photo
Cover C by Mariano Laclaustra
Cover D by Yifeng Jiang
Cover E by Yishan Li
FC & BW – 40pp – $4.99 – On sale: January 4, 2017

A mysterious break-in at a bank…Some enigmatic symbols…Hidden dangers…Could the case of the ‘Blind Banker’ be too dangerous for Holmes and Watson to handle?

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Preview: Sherlock: The Blind Banker #1

SHERLOCK THE BLIND BANKER #1

Writer: Stephen Thompson
Co-Creators: Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss
Artist: Jay.
Cover A: Jay.
Cover B: Photo
Cover C by Mariano Laclaustra
Cover D by Yifeng Jiang
Cover E by Yishan Li
FC & BW – 40pp – $4.99 – On sale: January 4, 2017

A mysterious break-in at a bank…Some enigmatic symbols…Hidden dangers…Could the case of the ‘Blind Banker’ be too dangerous for Holmes and Watson to handle?

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Preview: The Troop #3

THE TROOP #3

Writer: Noel Clarke
Artist: Joshua Cassara
Cover A: Joshua Cassara
Cover B: Yishan Li
Publisher: Titan Comics
Format: Softcover
Page Count: 32 PP
Price: $3.99
On Sale Date: February 10, 2016

The ranks of the Troop continue to swell… teenager torch, Hotshot, and Virus, a little bundle of virulence, have been joined by Torrent, a young girl who gives a whole new meaning to ‘stream’ of consciousness. Now they begin to dig like fingernails in a scab to uncover the secrets of their origins…

THE TROOP #3 COVER A by Josh Cassara

Preview: Man Plus #1

MAN PLUS #1

WRITER/ARTIST: André Lima Araújo
COVER A: André Lima Araújo
COVER B: Ryan Stegman
COVER C: Yishan Li
PUBLISHER: Titan Comics
FORMAT: Softcover
PAGE COUNT: 32 PP
PRICE: $3.99
ON SALE: January 20

The highly-anticipated Final Cut of the hit web-comics experience!

From artist/writer André Lima Araújo (Avengers AI, Ultimate FF, Age of Apocalypse) comes this high-octane dystopian thriller in which technology rules with a heavy hand, cyborg strike teams are commonplace, and the lines between man and machine grow hazier every day.

ManPlus_1_CoverA by André Lima Araújo

Preview: The Troop #2

THE TROOP #2

Writer: Noel Clarke
Artist: Joshua Cassara
Cover A: Joshua Cassara
Cover B: Yishan Li
Publisher: Titan Comics
Format: Softcover
Page Count: 32
Price: $3.99
On Sale Date: Jan 13, 2016

Torrent, a young woman who can turn herself into water and travel via people’s bladders! Hotshot, sex bomb and pyro-boy! Virus, a little girl who spreads disease like a plague louse!

Superheroes with very little that’s super about them, they have been brought together by a mysterious billionaire who seems keen to protect them from an equally mysterious but far more lethal organisation with big guns and cool suits.

TheTroop_02_Cover A - Joshua Cassara

NYCC 2015: Faith Erin Hicks Pens All-New Buffy Tale for Young Readers

As revealed at the Dark Horse: CLASSIFIED! panel at New York Comic Con 2015, Dark Horse will deliver a new original graphic novel series titled Buffy: The High School Years, executive produced by Joss Whedon. The first volume will be written by Eisner Award–winning author Faith Erin Hicks with artist Yishan Li. Together they’re bringing the angst, the action, and the cool to Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

Set during Season 1 of the television series, Buffy: The High School Years—Freaks & Geeks delivers classic Slayer action! Moving to a new school and making new friends will create enough anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you’re Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer—the Chosen One (with all that entails)—building a new life can be overwhelming.

A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb the vampire social ladder by taking out the Slayer. They play on Buffy’s insecurities, wearing her down until she is full-on distracted by the mental warfare. But in addition to her Watcher, Giles, this Slayer has a couple of new friends, Willow and Xander, to cheer her on . . . except, of course, when they’re not getting along.

Buffy: The High School Years—Freaks & Geeks is in stores June 15, 2016.

Buffy The High School Year

NYCC 2013: Titan Announces New Wave of Titles

Titan Comics has released details on the brand-new wave of creator-owned titles for 2014, including titles from established comics stars Rob Williams,  D’Israeli, Peter Milligan, Arthur Suydam, Simon Bisley and more!

Announced at the panel  ‘Titan Comics: The Next Wave’, the new batch of fresh creator-owned titles includes adrenal grindhouse-flick Sally Of The Wasteland by Victor Gischler and artist Tazio Bettin, superhero thriller Girl 1 by award-winning actor-writer-director Noel Clarke and Yishan Li, and quirky anti-capes tale Ordinary by Rob Williams and D’Israeli.

Brand-new collections to add to Titan’s blossoming deluxe library include a cutting-edge two-volume English edition of the never-before-translated French science fiction masterpiece Snowpiercer. Snowpiercer is about a postapocalyptic train that can never stop, its thousand carriages housing all that’s left of humanity. The story has been adapted into an astounding new film directed by Joon-ho Bong, starring Chris Evans, John Hurt Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell, distributed in the USA by The Weinstein Company, and due for release in early 2014.

Other astounding graphic novels to come from Titan include the definitive edition of existentialist hitman satire Johnny Nemo,by industry legend Peter Milligan and Brett Ewins; The Complete Cholly & Flytrap by Arthur Suydam, collecting the full EPIC shorts and more; Gothic Victorian horror-adventure Springheeled Jack by David Hitchcock, and gnarly skull-crusher The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by screenwriter Michael Mendheim and rock-star of comics, Simon Bisley!

You can find out more at their next panel on Sunday October 13th at 3.45pm in Room 1A01, where you can meet the creators and be in at the very beginning…!

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