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Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here and some of the GP is enjoying a long one. We’ll still have lots of news and reviews to come all weekend and into the new year! We’re not slowing down!!!

While you wait for the weekend to begin, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Afropunk – Geek Consumerism: How Nerds Are Pressured to Constantly Spend Money – A really good read.

Journalism.co.uk – How ABC News is experimenting with comic book style storytelling – Rather interesting.

Newsarama – David Brothers Leaves Image Comics – Well that’s unexpected.

Newsarama – Marvel’s Ben Morse Leaving After 10 Years – So, a job opening?

 

Reviews

Comicosity – Batman #37

Adventures in Poor Taste – Comic Book History of Comics: Comics for All #1

Nothing But Comics – Dark Fang #2

Nothing But Comics – Evolution #2

ICv2 – The Forever War

Bam! Smack! Pow! – She-Hulk #160

Talking Comics – Tales of Suspense #100

Unboxing: Skybound’s The MegaBox “The Remains”

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Geek boxes are all the rage and Skybound Entertainment has launched one of their own! Skybound is the company behind The Walking Dead, Outcast, Invincible, and more!

The latest MegaBox is all about “The Remains” featuring toys, comics, and more!

So join us as we crack open the latest MegaBox and show off what’s inside!

The MegaBox ships once a quarter and you can order the next one now!

Evolution #1 Heads Back to Print

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The hot new Image/Skybound horror series Evolution from writers James Asmus, Joseph Keatinge, Christopher Sebela, and Joshua Williamson with artists Joe Infurnari and Jordan Boyd is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with increased customer demand.

Human evolution has taken millions of years to get to the stage it’s reached in Evolution. But next week, we become something new. Around the world, humanity is undergoing rapid and unpredictable changes, and only three individuals seem to notice that their world is being reborn. But what can they do about it?

Evolution #1, 2nd printing (Diamond Code SEP178856) and Evolution #2 (Diamond Code OCT170668) will be available on Wednesday, December 20th. The final order cutoff deadline for comics retailers is Monday, November 27th.

Review: Evolution #1

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Human evolution has taken millions of years to get to this stage. But next week, we become something new. Around the world, humanity is undergoing rapid and unpredictable changes, and only three individuals seem to notice that their world is being reborn. But what can they do about it?

Evolution #1 is credited a whole slew of writers, all talented in various ways. James Asmus, Joe Keatinge, Christopher Sebela, and Joshua Williamson have teamed together for this debut over-sized issue that feels like a sci-fi horror series partially due to the fantastic art by Joe Infurnari.

The story is a bunch of short vignettes setting up what’s going on, which appears to be rapid evolution to meet the needs of individuals or reaction to what’s going on. Why is this happening? We don’t know. How wide spread is this? We don’t know. But, the variation of everything is interesting in that we have features that feel both helpful (gills) and some not so much.

The mystery of it all is the driving factor… along with the art.

I love Infurnari’s art and this feels like a horror take on his work in The Bunker from Oni Press. I’m not quite sure how to exactly describe the style but there’s a grittiness and dirtiness about it that is perfect for both horror and science fiction. And Infurnari delivers a global cast that all look varied and unique. There’s a lot of different characters and locations and it all looks cohesive and unique at the same time. Add in each mutation that at times borders on horror. There’s a great balance of using shadows to hide it to let our imagination run wild and showing us what’s going on. The lettering for the issue too ads to that horror aspect with a style that looks shaky in a way that enhances the tone of the comic.

I have no idea where this is going but I’m on board and what’s set up is an intriguing concept. While it’s not unique it is done in a way that teases the mystery and ups the anticipation of what’s to come.

Story: James Asmus, Joe Keatinge, Christopher Sebela, Joshua Williamson Art: Joe Infurnari
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review