Clue: Candlestick #3 (of 3)
Dash Shaw (w & a & c)
The Boddy Mansion is piled with bodies. Still, the candlestick lurks, and may illuminate the unseen killer… or last victim. In the climactic issue of this whodunit, we finally see who’d done it! Cartoonist auteur Dash Shaw takes his last turn in the puzzling, quirky, and colorful world of Clue!
FC • 36 pages • $4.99
We spent the weekend at the ALA Conference and will have our thoughts later in the day (it was amazing). It was an amazing experience celebrating books, comics, libraries, and more! While you wait for that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.
Kotaku – Streamer Raises Almost $1 Million For Charity In Just Four Hours – Not comic related but great to see this.
New York Post – Ex-employee of famed comic shop accused of swiping $50K in merchandise – That’s not good.
Queensland Times – Comic book drug plot alleged ringleader in court – This has been fascinating to learn about.
CBR – Venom 2: Sony Confirms Sequel is Happening, Tom Hardy Returning – The first made a ton of money. Of course it’s returning with Hardy!
Reviews
Newsarama – Captain America #11
AIPT! – Clue: Candlestick #2
CLUE: Candlestick #2
Dash Shaw (w & a & c)
Was it Miss Scarlet in the conservatory with the lead pipe?! In issue two of this mind-boggler based on the timeless detective game, suspicions mount and Scarlet’s story is revealed. Still, more bodies will fall. Cartoonist auteur Dash Shaw deepens the mysterious, quirky, and colorful world of Clue!
FC • 36 pages • $4.99
It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone excited to get? What do you plan on reading? Sound off in the comments below! While you debate on that and wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.
Kotaku – U.S. Senator Says His Anti-Loot Box Bill Has The Video Game Industry Worried – Maybe?
CBLDF – ACLU Explains Banning Book Critical of Prisons Unconstitutional – Duh?
ICv2 – Wizard Swings to Q1 Loss on Declining Revenues, Higher Talent Costs – This is still going on?
Reviews
Newsarama – Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale
Newsarama – Clue: Candlestick #1
Talking Comics – Skyward #13
Wednesdays 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 Wednesday.
The Avant-Guards #5 (BOOM! Studios/BOOM! Box) – This series has been fantastic and a lot of fun following an upstart college basketball team. You get a new issue and the first trade out this week!
Bone Parish #9 (BOOM! Studios) – A mix of horror and crime, this is a comic that’s delivered with every issue. The concept of a drug made from the ground up dead plus the crime family aspect is such an amazing mix.
Clue: Candlestick #1 (IDW Publishing) – We’re board game fans, so this makes the list because we’re intrigued as to what it is.
Drawing Blood: Spilled Ink #1 (Kevin Eastman Studios) – One of two releases from Kevin Eastman this week. This is his return to indie comics and this release is a look at the turbulent life and times of a once-successfull cartoonist…. Hmmmm. Eastman co-created this with David Avallone.
The Flash #71 (DC Comics) – “Year One” continues!
The Goon #2 (Albatross Funnybooks) – Eric Powell’s The Goon is always fun with a mix of horror and a Popeye vibe. Love it!
Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls (Kevin Eastman Studios) – The other Eastman comic out this week. This one is the story-within-the-story about three crime-fighting mutant cats that launched a franchise. Sound familiar?
Road of Bones #1 (IDW Publishing) – A Russian prisoner must escape a gulag and survive in a frozen tundra with the help of his childhood fantasy story. It sounds really interesting to us.
Wage Slaves (Conundrum Press) – Daria Bogdanska’s autobiographical story about attempting to build a life in Malmö and a battle that leads to fairer work practices for people in her community.
X-Force #8 (Marvel) – A fun throwback to some classic X-Force that picks up the loose threads from recent X-events. Stryfe is back… nuff said.
CLUE: Candlestick #1
Dash Shaw (w & a & c)
All of your favorite suspicious characters are back in this new brain twister based on the timeless detective game. Ripe with puzzles, secrets, and lies, in CLUE: CANDLESTICK everyone’s a suspect! Cartoonist auteur Dash Shaw unleashes his murderous imagination on the quirky, thrilling and mysterious world of Clue!
FC • 36 pages • $4.99
IDW Publishing has announced that Dash Shaw, the comic book auteur and creator of the celebrated animated film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, will unravel an all-new mystery in CLUE: Candlestick, a three-issue comic book miniseries launching in May.
All of your favorite suspicious characters are back in this new brain twister based on the timeless detective game. The CLUE: Candlestick miniseries is rife with puzzles, secrets, and lies, and everyone’s a suspect! Visionary creator, Dash Shaw unleashes his murderous imagination – and writing, illustrative, coloring, and lettering prowess – on the quirky, thrilling and mysterious world of CLUE!
Shaw’s loyal fans will thrill to know that, in addition to his fantastic main covers for the series, variant editions of each issue will form a triptych of the iconic suspects and their murderous instruments, and illustrator Jed McGowan will also provide a special incentive cover. For added value, each issue features extra-length story content and will feature brand new CLUE game cards based on the comic.
