Fan-favorite poet and writer Chrissy Williams reteams with artist Lauren Knight and colorist Sofie Dodgson for the upcomingGolden Rage: Mother Knows Best. This five-issue miniseries follow-up to their fan-favorite dystopian feminist tale is set to launch in April from Image Comics.
The new miniseries launch will also feature a stunning variant cover by artist Tula Lotay.
In a world where old and infertile women are deemed useless to society and abandoned on an island, Golden Rage documents their golden years of making friends, baking dessert, and fighting to the death. Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best builds upon the first miniseries for a glorious new adventure.
Golden Rage can perhaps best be described as an action-packed, feminist battle-cry and a high-stakes, dystopian blend of Squid Game and The Handmaid’s Tale.
Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best #1 Cover A by Knight & Cover B by Lotay will both be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, April 9.
Erwan and Yann Morin along with the TIKI Editions and Randolph teams introduce Mega Jackpot — a push your luck game that will keep you on your toes!
Embark on an adrenaline-pumping journey into the heart of the casino world, where every player can taste the thrill of risk from the comfort of their home. Mega Jackpot is a rollercoaster of emotions, testing your nerve while filling the room with laughter and cheers.
Highlights of Mega Jackpot:
Simple: Dive in effortlessly, thanks to a theme everyone knows.
Modular: Engage with the core game or amp up the excitement with the Mega Jackpot tiles.
Brain Boost: Sharpen your mathematical thinking by weighing the odds.
Captivating: Each card turn builds suspense, delivering the casino’s thrill without the risk.
Transform any night into a lively casino adventure with Mega Jackpot – where fortune favors the brave, and laughter is the ultimate jackpot!
2-4 players / 15 minutes / ages 8+
Mechanics: Push Your Luck, Betting and Bluffing, Sudden Death Ending
Claude Clément, along with the Gigamic team introduce Slide — a strategic set collection game for up to six players! It will be released by Hachette Boardgames USA this March!
In Slide, you need to arrange the numbered cards in a grid, aiming to score as few points as possible. The game plays out in an intense 16 rounds, where tensions mount as players reveal cards, strategically selecting from the center to slide into their grids. Each move must be calculated, as cards can’t be placed diagonally or directly into an empty slot. But watch out, you’ll need to keep an eye on your opponents and one step ahead to win the game!
Slide challenges players to arrange numbered cards with the goal of minimizing their score. Success requires not only careful planning but also staying one step ahead of your opponents!
Slide offers a dynamic and entertaining experience for players of all ages, blending accessible gameplay with thrilling strategic depth. Perfect for family game nights or casual gatherings, Slide promises endless hours of enjoyment as you compete to emerge victorious!
Dark Horse Comics presents Los Monstruos, a new four-issue detective mystery/monster mash-up miniseries set in the 1950s written by James Robinson, illustrated by Jesús Merino, colored by K.J. Diaz, and lettered by Jim Campbell. Issue #1 will be available in May 2025 and will feature main cover art by Merino as well as four variant covers by Tony Harris, Marcos Martín, Ramon Perez, and Dan Panosian.
Los Monstruos, located on the West Coast of America, is a city populated solely by monsters of all the kinds you’d find in classic folklore and black-and-white horror movies. They’re all just getting on with their lives, working, doing jobs, nothing bad, nothing evil. Well, apart from the crooks and gangsters in Los Monstruos’ underworld, but every city has those, right? All cities have private detectives, too, and werewolf P.I. Perry Cutter has a simple case that’s quickly turning into a king-size headache. Initially hired to find an old man’s lost love from among the city’s vampire community, Perry quickly finds things spiraling out of control as both vampire and Egyptian mummy criminal gangs begin to get involved too. So, as Perry looks for answers, he runs a gauntlet of danger while also uncovering dark secrets about his own past as a cop in the Los Monstruos Police Department. Can Perry solve the case, put his history to rest, stay alive, and still make that date he has with that cute vampire waitress he’s crazy about? It’s sure going to take all his skills as a detective and his abilities as a werewolf to do it.
Los Monstruos #1(of 4) will be available in comic shops on May 7, 2025. It is now available to pre-order for $4.99 at your local comic shop.
Solis Game Studio‘s Space Lion is back with Space Lion 2: Leon’s Strife! Join is for the ultimate pocket sized and super charged Space Lion experience!
2 Players, light and portable!
Level up your units as you fight for control of 3 outposts.
Play cards in outposts and bases, face-up or face-down. Be tricky! Be strategic!
Get a free Space Lion poker deck for backing early!
Stella knows fifth grade will be the best year ever. Her closest friends, Emiko and Latasha, are in her class and they all got the teacher they wanted. Then their favorite television show, Witchlins, announces a new guidebook and an online game!
But when the classwork starts piling up, Stella struggles to stay on top. Why does it take her so long to read? And how can she keep up with friends in the Witchlins game if she can’t get through the text-heavy guidebook? And when she can’t deal with the text-heavy Witchlins guidebook, she can’t keep up with her friends in the game. It takes loving teachers and her family to recognize that Stella has a learning difference, and after a dyslexia diagnosis she gets the support and tools she needs to succeed.
Story: Kami Garcia Art: Brittney Williams Letterer: Tyler Smith
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YOU CAN RUN FROM JUSTICE…BUT YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE FATE!!Oni Press has unveiled the first look inside of this spring’s Out of Alcatraz #2 – the next relentless installment of the New Year’s first truly MUST-READ new series from Eisner Award-nominated writer Christopher Cantwell and Russ Manning Award-winning and Eisner Award–nominated illustrator Tyler Crook! This April, the taunt and terrifying tale of America’s most notorious fugitives continues as they desperately race for freedom through the California countryside … leaving a trail of wreckage, bodies, and painful revelations in their wake.
1962. California. Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They thought escaping America’s most notorious prison would be the hard part. They were wrong. Frank, Clarence, and their secretive handler were supposed to be laying low in the farmlands north of San Francisco, but the bodies have already started piling up . . . and it’s difficult to keep a finely tuned plan in order when you’re turning on each other. Meanwhile, the FBI wants this case closed and the escapees declared dead, but one rogue US Marshal has a lurking suspicion that might just bring the full weight of history crashing down on the walking dead men who somehow made it out of Alcatraz—only to find a worse kind of hell waiting for them.
Pairing co-creators Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook, Out of Alcatraz #1 begins a harrowing epic of killers and convicts every bit as cold as Alcatraz Island itself, as told across five lavishly painted issues from two Eisner-nominated storytellers with covers by co-creator Tyler Crook, Oliver Dominguez, Valeria Burzo, Massimo Carnevale, and Hayden Sherman.
The Blood brothers finally come face-to-face with the outlaws who stole their mother. But the boys soon discover the hard truth that vengeance can make a soul harder than an unforgiving landscape, and sometimes the greatest evil stares back at you from the mirror.
Story: Brian Azzarello Art: Eduardo Risso Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
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The chart-topping The Power Fantasy series by multiple award winning writer Kieron Gillen and fan-favorite artist Caspar Wijngaard will kick off a pulse-pounding new story arc with issue #6 next month.
InThe Power Fantasy #6, the stakes are raised as Magus and Heavy’s 18-years-in-the-making plans for world-domination are revealed.
The Power Fantasy #6 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, February 19:
Cover A by Caspar Wijngaard – Lunar Code 1224IM239
Cover B by Abigail Jill Harding – Lunar Code 1224IM240
Cover C 1:50 copy incentive by Rian Hughes Pantone Color PMS 806 – Lunar Code 1224IM240
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: Irredeemable
If you’ve been half paying attention to the gamut of movies hitting the theater this year that have some relation to comics or geek culture, then you’ve probably heard about the movie Brightburn, a superhero horror film that reimagines Superman’s wholesome origin as something much darker – this superpowered alien is a touch less well adjusted, and begins murdering people. Ten years ago, Mark Waid told a similar story. The Plutonian was essentially Superman, though without the influence of Jonathon and Martha Kent, who one day snaps after the world’s snide comments and contempt becomes too much for him to bear.
If you’ve ever wondered about whether Superman could take out the Justice League – or the Paradigm in this universe – the answer, at least according to Waid, is when he snaps he absolutely can.
Irredeemable is as much about the fall of the Plutonian, told in flashbacks, and how the world copes being at the mercy of the terrible supervillain. There are remnants of various teams left alive, but few seem capable of facing the Plutonian head on, instead trying to make the best of the new status quo.
“What if you go from, you know, Captain America to Doctor Doom? What if you go from Superman to Lex Luthor? How do you go from being the greatest hero in the world—someone that everybody knows, and everybody loves, and everyone recognizes—to the greatest villain in the world? What is that path? It’s not a light switch, it’s not an on-off switch, it’s not something that you wake up one day and just become evil.”
Mark Waid on the basis for Irredeemable, markwaid.com podcast.
Irredeemable earned Waid two Eisner awards, and understandably so, as his thirty seven issue deconstruction of the superhero mythos makes for essential reading for any who want to see the darker take on Superman have real consequences. But with as much despair as there is in the comic, there’s also hope, and humour. Waid’s commentary on the superhero genre (including some accurate comments about the frequency of black men with electrical powers, and the less than subtle racism said black hero faces) is another notch on the belt of a series that must be read.
The comic has now been collected in various trades, and can be found on comiXology for those interested in digital reading. I can’t recommend it, and the spin off series Incorruptible enough (more on Incorruptible next week). There’s thirty seven issues of Irredeemable to devour, and that’s it.
Join us next week when we look at something else that is, for whatever reason, Underrated.
