Just in time for spooky season, GlobalComix has announced their partnership with Sandy King and John Carpenter’s famed Storm King Comics!
Readers won’t want to miss the opportunity to get their read (and scare) this Halloween with the latest releases, John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 8, John Carpenter’s Night Terrors: The Coffin Road, John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: Stanley And The Forgotten Forest, and John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction: Civilians!
When Annie Graham’s lifeless body washes up Venice beach, the nation mourns the loss of a popular actress. Police suspect her death was no accident but Graham’s husband-billionaire Zachary Lot-has the best lawyers money can buy and the investigation stalls. That’s when Tambi Baker decides to take matters into her own hands and enlist three of her finest Parker Girl operatives to bring the Lot Empire down, one shocking scandal at a time.
Story: Terry Moore Art: Terry Moore
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The news started to go around earlier today that It’s Alive!‘s Andrew (Drew) Ford has passed away. Ford was found September 26 in his car in distress from COVID related pneumonia. His heart had stopped working for 20 minutes and he was rushed to to the emergency room where was pronounced brain dead. His organs will be donated.
It’s Alive! was launched by Ford in 2016 who had previously had worked for Dover Publications. The imprint was to get “long out of print comics back in print”. It also published new English translations of foreign releases as well as original projects. Later that year, the publisher struck a deal with IDW Publishing to release comics through them which lasted a limited time. In recent times Ford turned to crowdfunding for projects.
His real name is Nicholas Sinterklass, and this is the story of what happens when you steal his Naughty List. Nick is on a mission to get the list back.
Story: Nick Santora Art: Lee Ferguson Color: Juancho!, Pippa Bowland Letterer: Dave Sharpe, Simon Bowland
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This is a column that focuses on something or some things from the comic book sphere of influence that may not get the credit and recognition it deserves. Whether that’s a list of comic book movies, ongoing comics, or a set of stories featuring a certain character. The columns may take the form of a bullet pointed list, or a slightly longer thinkpiece – there’s really no formula for this other than whether the things being covered are Underrated in some way. This week: Battlepug: Volume One
Disclaimer: Somehow I managed to delete, and save the deletion, of almost the entire text of this column. It is currently about ten minutes before it’s due to go live…
After a visit to the thrift store the other day I found the first volume of MikeNorton‘s Battlepug. Joining Norton for the comic is colourist Allen Passalaqu and letter Chris Crank. The story itself is a blend between homage and parody to Conan and He-Man in a world where sword and sorcery is the name of the game in a world where giant cuddly and innocent looking (mostly) animals represent a rather unconventionally large threat. With the first volume taking on a story-within-a-story set up, the framing is of a fairly stereotypical fantasy woman telling a bed time story to her two talking pugs.
It’s the story within, that bed time story, that holds the origin of the Battlepug as a lone survivor of a village grows to become the Conan figure in all his brutal glory. The book, a slightly oversized hardcover that cost me $6, is presented almost like a children’s book – and because this isn’t a book for kids, that only adds to the brilliance of its presentation. Battlepug is one of those rare stories that is able to both poke fun at and show respect to its genre while exposing the tropes and criticisms that audiences level at classical fantasy. And it does all this with utter seriousness as a giant pug slurps and snorts through the pages.
Although there is a very cohesive and well told story here, there are also brilliant little moments every few pages; jokes in dialogue and imagery, nods of the head to other things the reader should be all too aware of, and things that may not necessarily be on their radar (I’m sure I missed a lot, honestly). There’s a much deeper story for you to unpack upon the second or third reading, and it never gets old. Or it hasn’t for me.
Norton’s story is utterly fantastic. It’s funny, it’s remarkably well written, and it deserves so much more than the hastily rewritten column that it is getting. It is beyond an Underrated gem, and it’s one that I have every intention of revisiting very soon, and in more detail, when I find the second volume.
Join us next week when we look at something else that is, for whatever reason, Underrated.
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(W) Ivan Cohen, Danny Lore (A) Marco Failla (CA) Robbi Rodriguez In Shops: Oct 04, 2022 SRP: $3.99
One of Earth-11’s bravest and boldest heroes makes the ultimate sacrifice to save one of their allies in Teen Justice! But can even that selfless choice turn the tide against the Core, whose plans involve the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of people? And what will survivor’s guilt do to the teen champion who didn’t want to be saved at such a heartbreaking cost? There’s only one issue left, but we’re not slowing down on the way to the finish line!
(W) Gene Luen Yang (A/CA) Bernard Chang In Shops: Oct 04, 2022 SRP: $3.99
The Jingu bang has stretched so large and long that it has become a nuisance to Atlantis, and so Aquaman goes to find who is responsible for this ginormous golden staff that destroyed so much of his city. The good news is, the Jingu bang can shrink back to normal size, but only the Monkey King is worthy enough to wield its magical properties-will the staff recognize Monkey Prince as good enough to do the same?
