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Unboxing: Scout Comics Subscription Box – June 2022

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Scout Comics has its own subscription box where you can get up to 12 Scout Comics including sought-after variants!

You can buy one box for $39.99 plus shipping or subscribe for $33.99 plus shipping. The box ships once a month!

In this box:

  • Agents of W.O.R.L.D.E. #1
  • The Ballad of Gordon Barleycorn #1
  • Beyond the Beyond #2
  • Broken Eye #3
  • Cities & Magick #2
  • Code 45 #1
  • Cult of Ikarus #4
  • Distorted #3
  • Ghost Planet Ash Can
  • Mr. Easta Ash Can
  • Pentagram of Horror #2
  • Wannabes #1

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Unboxing: Scout Comics Subscription Box – May 2022

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Scout Comics has its own subscription box where you can get up to 12 Scout Comics including sought-after variants!

You can buy one box for $39.99 plus shipping or subscribe for $33.99 plus shipping. The box ships once a month!

In this box:

  • Agents of W.O.R.L.D.E. Ashcan
  • Azza the Barbed Ashcan
  • Broken Eye #2
  • By the Horns: Dark Earth #1
  • Code 45 #1
  • Cult of Ikarus #3
  • Headless #3
  • Misfitz Clubhouse Ashcan
  • Murder Hobo: Chaotic Neutral
  • The Recount: Preamble #1
  • Third Wave 99 #3
  • Triskele #1

Subscribe now to get the next one!

Cult of Ikarus #1 Gets a Second Printing

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Second printing! Tossed out by her foster family after one-too-many rides home in the back of a cop car, Hunter packs up and sets out on a mission to find out who she is. A mysterious book – her only link to her parents – leads her to discover a covert world of magic and danger running parallel to our own. One punk rock show, two whiskeys, and three vicious vampire assassins later, Hunter’s on the run from the ancient, deadly Cult of Ikarus. Hunter came looking for answers. What will become of her once she gets them? 

Scout Comics has announced that Cult of Ikarus #1 from writer Jenna Lyn Wright and artist Karl Slominski.

Cult of Ikarus #1 2nd printing

Review: Cult of Ikarus #1

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There’s a lot of vampire stories out there. A lot. And lets face it, so many blend together it’s hard to distinguish them and tell them apart. So, going into a new one you need to look for what stands out and is different. Cult of Ikarus #1 has more than enough to keep things interesting and have me come back for more. Hunter is on a mission to find out who she is. After meeting a mysterious bookstore owner she’s attacked by a group of vampires who think she’s familiar.

Story: Jenna Lyn Wright
Art: Karl Slominski
Letterer: Taylor Esposito

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Review: Cult of Ikarus #1

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Cult of Ikarus #1

There’s a lot of vampire stories out there. A lot. And lets face it, so many blend together it’s hard to distinguish them and tell them apart. So, going into a new one you need to look for what stands out and is different. Cult of Ikarus #1 has more than enough to keep things interesting and have me come back for more. Hunter is on a mission to find out who she is. After meeting a mysterious bookstore owner she’s attacked by a group of vampires who think she’s familiar.

Jenna Lyn Wright delivers a debut that feels like it has a lot of inspiration from other pop culture. There’s a little Blade, some Lost Boys, mix in White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade, and absolutely Terminator 2. And it really works. There’s a bit of style to the debut issue that stands out. It’s interesting in how the story plays out. Not a lot of that is original but you’re sort of dropped into the story after the initial opening segment. Hunter is just in this store having a conversation that we feel like we’ve missed something. But that’s where the storytelling becomes really strong. It plays out slowly revealing what lead up to that and all of the information we think we missed is explained. It’s an interesting writing style that feels fresh and different. The reader feels a bit lost in the story like Hunter is.

The art by Karl Slominski is good. There’s an indie punk look to it all that really fits the characters and settings. The surprise of some of the action plays out as exactly that, a surprise by the characters. There’s also some really solid small details that adds some intriguing aspects to it all. Taylor Esposito‘s lettering adds to the action and some of those key action moments really emphasizing what’s going on, and delivering some humor to it all as well.

Cult of Ikarus #1 is another entry in the modern vampire genre that definitely has its roots in what has come before. But, there’s a certain flair about the debut that has me wanting to come back and see what happens next. Like Blade, there’s a popcorn entertainment aspect it that works and works well.

Story: Jenna Lyn Wright Art: Karl Slominski Letterer: Taylor Esposito
Story: 7.85 Art: 7.85 Overall: 7.85 Recommendation: Buy

Scout Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Land of the Living Gods #1

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.

Apache Delivery Service #2 (Dark Horse Comics) – Any comic by Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, and Hilary Jenkins is likely getting on this list. The first issue being interesting doesn’t hurt either.

Batgirls #3 (DC Comics) – The series has been a lot of fun with a solid mix of story and pop art to go along with it. There’s a kinetic energy about it all that has us hooked.

Bylines in Blood #2 (AfterShock) – The first issue was solid focusing on a murder a detective needs to solve while exploring the failure of the systems meant to protect and lead us.

Cult of Ikarus #1 (Scout Comics) – Hunter wants to find out who she is but after vampire assassins come for her, she’s on the run from the deadly Cult of Ikarus.

Devil’s Reign #4 (Marvel) – The event has been fantastic so for and this issue is full of action and some solid emotional and tragic moments.

Hecates Will #2 (Black Mask Studios) – Hecate tenaciously continues her mission of scattering graffiti stencil puzzle pieces through the streets of Manhattan. It’s a very different and intriguing series so far.

Hellboy & the BPRD 1957: Forgotten Lives (Dark Horse Comics) – It’s a Hellboy one-shot. These are always entertaining in some way and well worth getting if you want some action horror to read.

Land of the Living Gods #1 (AfterShock) – The end is here! The spirits of the first people have returned to witness the last days of humanity. Enter a world of wonder and cruelty, beauty and perseverance.

Life Zero #1 (Ablaze) – A new sci-fi, action, horror series with art by Marcho Checchetto.

Secret X-Men #1 (Marvel) – We’re suckers for the “B team” type of X-Men teams where it’s a mix of characters who usually don’t get the spotlight or respect.

Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 (DC Comics) – A slight twist on the usual formula with some of the regular members having to manage new recruits who are part of a secret government procedure called Blaze!

Cult of Ikarus is Coming Soon from Jenna Lyn Wright, Karl Slominski, Taylor Esposito, and Scout Comics

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Cult of Ikarus

A rebellious, teenage foster kid goes searching for her roots, only to discover that she’s something more than human and possibly a harbinger of the apocalypse. 

Tossed out by her foster family after one-too-many rides home in the back of a cop car, Hunter packs up her meager belongings and sets out on a mission: stop drifting and find out who she is.

That journey turns out to be more like a trip down the rabbit hole, as she’s introduced to a covert world of magic and danger running parallel to our own, complete with undead rock stars, a pair of sorcerer brothers with questionable morals, and a prophecy that puts her at the top of an ancient vampire coven’s hit list.

Hunter came looking for answers. What will become of her once she gets them?

Cult of Ikarus is from writer Jenna Lyn Wright, artist Karl Slominski, and letterer Taylor Esposito. It’s coming soon from Scout Comics.