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Antarctica Vol. 1 has an intriguing premise but doesn’t feel like a complete story

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Hannah’s life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father, and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed.

Collects Antarctica #1-5

Story: Simon Birks
Art: Willi Roberts
Letterer: Lyndon White

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.

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Antarctica Vol. 1 has an intriguing premise but doesn’t feel like a complete story

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Hannah’s life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father, and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed.

Collects Antarctica #1-5

Story: Simon Birks
Art: Willi Roberts
Letterer: Lyndon White

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.

Bookshop
Amazon
Kindle

Top Cow Productions provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from this site. Making purchases through these links helps support the site

Preview: Antarctica #6

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Antarctica #6

(W) Simon Birks (A) Lyndon White (A/CA) Wili Roberts
In Shops: Dec 13, 2023
SRP: $3.99

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST
It’s Christmas Eve. Hannah is seven years old and looking forward to spending the holidays with her father, but when she wakes on Christmas morning, things don’t seem right. Jerome is acting suspiciously, the windows are showing the same scenes over and over again, and someone, or something, is waiting for her on the other side of the wall…

Antarctica #6

Team Antarctica wishes you a Happy Holidays with a gift of the first issue, FREE to read!

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Team Antarctica wishes you Happy Holidays and are sharing the first issue of Anatarctica which you can read for free below! The trade collections comes out on Valentine’s Day 2024.

Hannah’s life imploded the day her father disappeared from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Desperate to find him, she gets a job at the same station and is immediately thrown into events threatening the entire planet when a duplicate station appears, complete with another version of herself hellbent on executing a terrifying agenda.

Collecting the first five issues, Antarctica Vol. 1 Out in the Cold is written by Simon Birks, art by Willi Roberts, and lettering by Lyndon White. It comes to shops February 14, 2024.

Preview: Antarctica #5

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Antarctica #5

(W) Simon Birks (A) Lyndon White (A/CA) Wili Roberts
In Shops: Nov 15, 2023
SRP: $3.99

With the arrival of a third Antarctic base, Hannah and Dr. Hannah must unite against a new common enemy. Hatching a plan to jump to Hannah’s world, Dr. Hannah reveals the heartbreaking motives behind her actions. With the enemy closing in, the team must make one last sacrifice in their desperate attempt to escape to safety.

Antarctica #5

Preview: Antarctica #4

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Antarctica #4

(W) Simon Birks (A) Willi Roberts
Cover B by Koi Turnbull
Cover C – The Walking Dead 20th Anniversary Variant by Giuseppe Cafaro
In Shops: Oct 18, 2023

After tragedy strikes the group, they must dig deep and use all their skills just to stay alive. After another startling discovery, Dr. Curtis puts a gun to the head of alt-Jim. Will Hannah give herself up to save him? And just who are the new unwelcome visitors?

Antarctica #4

Top Cow reveals The Walking Dead 20th Anniversary Variants

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Top Cow Productions is helping to celebrate Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead 20-year milestone anniversary with collectible variants by artist Giuseppe Cafaro and colorist John Starr. Together, these three virgin variant covers will connect to create a panoramic masterpiece featuring Top Cow characters from Destiny Gate #1, Antarctica #4, and Haunt You To The End #5, fighting side-by-side with The Walking Dead iconic horror series heroes and villains this October.

Top Cow/EP1T0ME series Destiny Gate #1 by Ryan Cady and Christian DiBari, The Walking Dead‘s Negan is wielding the mighty Lucille as he struggles with Destiny Gate protagonist Mitchell Slate while the demonic character ‘Madness’ looms.

While in Antarctica #4, Michonne’s sword is drawn with Antarctica heroine Hannah, as they fight back to back as zombie’s claw at them. 

Lastly, the cover to Haunt You To The End #5, features the tough as nails mercenary Gersh, as she struggles in the foreground while behind her the The Walking Dead‘s Maggie fights for her life against ravenous Zombies, tears in her eyes in shock and surprise, as next to her she sees the mangled, broken, ghost corpse of the love of her life, Glenn.

Covers by Giuseppe Cafaro and John Starr are available now to pre-order:

  • DESTINY GATE #1 Cover C – Lunar Code: 0823IM297 (left) – On sale Wednesday, October 11, 2023
  • ANTARCTICA #4 Cover C – Lunar Code: 0823IM353 (center) – On sale Wednesday, October 18, 2023
  • HAUNT YOU TO THE END #5 Cover C – Lunar Code: 0823IM385 (right) – On sale Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Antarctica has been extended into an ongoing series

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Due to the positive response, Top Cow Productions’ latest sci-fi adventure series, Antarctica by Simon Birks and Willi Roberts has been greenlit to be an ongoing series. The sci-fi comic was originally solicited as a five issue series.

Though Antarctica has been a unique blend of Stargate and His Dark Materials, the second arc will throw readers back to a time before Hannah’s father, Jerome, disappeared. The creators will continue to deliver twists and turns, introduce new characters—both good and bad—and the excitement and mystery will continue to play out against the backdrop of snow and ice. 

Antarctica #6 Cover A by Willi Roberts and Antarctica #6 Cover B by Lyndon White will be in comic shops on Wednesday, December 13 and also available on digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST. It’s Christmas Eve. Hannah is seven years old and looking forward to spending the holidays with her father, but when she wakes on Christmas morning, things don’t seem right. Jerome is acting suspiciously; the windows are showing the same scenes over and over again, and someone, or something, is waiting for her on the other side of the wall…

Antarctica #1 kicks off a mystery you need to just roll with

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Antarctica #1

Hannah’s life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed. Antarctica #1 kicks off an intriguing mystery, you just need to ignore some things to enjoy it.

Written by Simon Birks, Antarctica #1 is an interesting start. We’re given a bit of an emotional ride as we learn about Hannah and her father and her slide after he disappears. It’s a hell of a slide that’s not really explained. While her emotional fallout makes sense, she also becomes homeless living on the streets. None of that is explained, it overall feels like a rather unneeded journey for Hannah. She is befriended by a bar owner, is encouraged to go to school, and then gets hired by the same company her father worked for. What? It’s a journey that feels a bit like a stretch. It’s never explained how she can afford school. The company not connecting her to her father feels a bit odd as well. It’s small details that feel like a bump on the journey to the morse interesting Antarctica.

The art by Willi Roberts is good. With lettering by Lyndon White, there’s a nice emotional ride in the first 2/3 of the comic as we’re taken through Hannah’s rough journey.. When we eventually get to Antarctica, there’s a coldness not in the white snow, but in the blacks, greys, and reds of the location. It’s all decent art but nothing quite jumps out or really uses its locations to deliver a bit more to the journey.

Antarctica #1 is an ok start. It takes a while to get going and there’s some odd distractions along the way but the end of the comic delivers. It’s enough to want to see what happens next, let’s hope it gets more to the point going forward.

Story: Simon Birks Art: Willi Roberts Letterer: Lyndon White
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Read

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Astrobots #3

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.

Animal Castle Vol. 2 #3 (Ablaze) – It’s a new take on the classic Animal Farm and the art is amazing.

Antarctica #1 (Image Comics/Top Cow) – Hannah secures a job at the Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed. We’re intrigued by the mystery.

Astrobots #3 (Massive Publishing/Whatnot Publishing) – The art has been amazing for this series about a robot society. The story too is great, focusing on the revolutionaries that see the corruption.

Con & On #1 (AHOY Comics) – Follow an ensemble cast of media pros and fans down through the decades of America’s most colossal comic book convention! Perfect to get us pumped for SDCC!

Dark Ride #7 (Image Comics/Skybound) – The series has been a fantastic horror ride and we can’t wait to find out more about what’s going on.

Eight Limbs (Humanoids) – Joanna, a retired Muay Thai champion, takes in a troubled foster teen and decides to train her… until the teen lands herself in a dangerous situation and Joanna must re-enter the ring to fight for her new family! We’re here for the Muay Thai.

Fishflies #1 (Image Comics) – The Free Comic Book Day teaser of this new Jeff Lemire series had us scratching our heads, so we definitely want to check out this debut.

Gargoyles: Dark Ages #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) – Return to the long-lost era when humans and Gargoyles lived in harmony but the peace is threatened.

The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold Your Childhood (First Second) – A new graphic novel by Box Brown about how marketing targeting children in the 80s impacts them today.

Kaiju No. 8 Vol. 7 (VIZ Media) – With Isao defeated, No. 9 fuses with the director general and takes on Kafka, Kikoru, and Narumi! Will they be able to defeat No. 9 and save their fearless leader?! We’re pumped to see what happens next!

Knight Terrors #1 (DC Comics) – After last week’s releases, the main series of this summer event kicks off here!

Sirens of the City #1 (BOOM! Studios) – New York City. 1980s. Runaway teen Layla struggles to survive on the mean streets, far from home. We’re excited for this series that says it “shines a light on bodily autonomy in a patriarchal world.”

WildC.A.T.s #9 (DC Comics) – The series has been full of action and a hell of a lot of fun.

World’s Finest: Teen Titans #1 (DC Comics) – We’re down for this retro series focusing on the early Teen Titans.

X-Men: Days of Future Past – Doomsday #1 (Marvel) – Wondered how it all happened? Find out here!

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