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Preview: Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

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Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Ryan Browne
In Shops: Feb 26, 2025
SRP: $7.99

Godzilla is coming to America, and its first stop? Chicago! Join a star-studded crew of Chicago comics creators through four epic stories across the Windy City. The L train experiences its worst delays yet, Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event, and a new Chicago-based superhero reaches the end of her rope. This issue features a superstar lineup of creators including Tim Seeley, Mike Costa and Ryan Browne, Caroline Cash, and Ezra Clayton Daniels! Join us at the start of a new anthology series that follows Godzilla across the United States!

Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

Preview: Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

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Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Ryan Browne
In Shops: Feb 26, 2025
SRP: $7.99

Godzilla is coming to America, and its first stop? Chicago! Join a star-studded crew of Chicago comics creators through four epic stories across the Windy City. The L train experiences its worst delays yet, Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event, and a new Chicago-based superhero reaches the end of her rope. This issue features a superstar lineup of creators including Tim Seeley, Mike Costa and Ryan Browne, Caroline Cash, and Ezra Clayton Daniels! Join us at the start of a new anthology series that follows Godzilla across the United States!

Godzilla vs. America: Godzilla vs. Chicago #1

The Infinity Stones become living beings in The Infinity Watch Annuals

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"Infinity Watch"

The most coveted artifacts in the known universe have resurfaced, and this time, they’re bonded to the very bodies and souls of Marvel’s up-and-coming heroes and villains. For the Mad Titan, that just makes his hunt for them all the more sweeter. Across nine annuals starting with June’s Thanos Annual #1, witness the latest cosmos-shattering Infinity saga as celebrated icons and new fan-favorites battle it out to contain—or control—the limitless power of the Infinity Stones in the blockbuster summer event—”Infinity Watch.” Discover what awaits in “Infinity Watch” parts four through six this July and August!

The “Infinity Watch” crossover will be spearheaded by acclaimed writer Derek Landy. In addition to writing key chapters of the event, Landy will team up with artist Sara Pichelli on backup stories in each of the nine annuals that follow the creation and pursuit of the mysterious Death Stone-bearer who will be revealed in Thanos Annual #1.

The saga will follow up on previous Infinity Stone stories with the return of recent bearers including Star, Overtime, Prince of Power, Quantum, and Multitude, as well as introduce you to the new Mind Stone-Bearer, Worldmind, for the first time! As they deal with their god-like powers and mistrust from their peers, Thanos, fresh off his own dramatic transformation in Christopher Cantwell’s recent Thanos limited series, begins a bloody march to claim his dark destiny once more.

Last month, fans learned about the event’s opening chapters. Learn about what’s next for “Infinity Watch” in parts four through six!

MS. MARVEL ANNUAL #1

Written by IMAN VELLANI & SABIR PIRZADA
Art by GIADA BELVISO & SARA PICHELLI

“INFINITY WATCH” PART FOUR!

Hero or Villain? That’s the question Multitude must answer as he stands at the crossroads of his own destiny, bonded to one of the Infinity Stones and brimming with power but no purpose. Will a run-in with Ms. Marvel  be enough to tip the scales toward good, or will Multitude’s guilt drag him down? Don’t miss out as the Marvel Universe-shaking saga continues here, True Believers! PLUS, Derek Landy and Sara Pichelli bring NICK FURY into the story. But what ties him to the INFINITY WATCH?!”

MS. MARVEL ANNUAL #1

WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1

Written by EZRA CLAYTON DANIELS
Art by YILDIRAY ÇINAR & SARA PICHELLI

“INFINITY WATCH” PART FIVE!

WOLVERINE vs. INFINITY WATCH, and the whole world hangs in the balance! Logan’s efforts to rescue a community from destruction are upended when the new Infinity Watch crashes into town! The claws come out to protect the innocents, but can even adamantium withstand the raw power of the INFINITY STONES? The best there is must summon the best he’s got to survive! PLUS: Derek Landy and Sara Pichelli bring NICK FURY’s investigation to a head as he closes in on the Death Stone bearer!

WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1

INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #1

Written by DEREK LANDY
Art by GEOFF SHAW & SARA PICHELLI

“INFINITY WATCH” PART SIX!

The Mad Titan THANOS carves a path of destruction to his next doomed target – the current bearer of the MIND STONE! But there’s a very big, very green and very, very, VERY angry Hulk standing in Thanos’ way. Introducing the new master of the Mind Stone – WORLDMIND!

INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL #1

Catch Upgrade Soul’s Vinyl Soundtrack with Tonight’s Listening Party

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Ezra Claytan Daniels’ mesmerizing graphic novel debut Upgrade Soul has received widespread praise and award nominations for the comic book industry’s top honors, including The Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics and the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and ‘Ringo Awards. This fall, the critically acclaimed book is expanding into multimedia with the vinyl release of Alexis Gideon’s Upgrade Soul Original Soundtrack and the relaunch of an innovative Upgrade Soul app. Both the app and the soundtrack will be available for purchase October 25th, 2019.

Before the soundtrack is released, FPE Records is hosting a listening party tonight at 8pm CDT.

The Upgrade Soul Original Soundtrack Standard Edition, with black vinyl, retails for $18.00. The Upgrade Soul Original Soundtrack Limited Edition, featuring color vinyl, is exclusively available through FPE Records’ website, via Bandcamp or directly from Ezra Claytan Daniels at appearances. The Upgrade Soul Original Soundtrack Limited Edition retails for $45.00.

Upgrade Soul

Review: BTTM FDRS

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BTTM FDRS

I remembered the very first time I saw Candyman. The movie not only was good, but it was far too relatable. Tony Todd as the titular character exhibited something both frightful and had a clear connection to America’s past. Where others saw purely a horror film, I saw how much society devalued black lives.

The movie followed a graduate student doing a thesis on urban myths when her path leads her to Southside Chicago. She discovers the legend of Candyman, the ghost of an artist and son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century. The movie was terrifying and so true to life. I’ve had friends who have died, like those in the movie, where deaths were thought of as common and the police and medical response were slow to respond. It’s a reality which people in wealthier neighborhoods know nothing about. As cities have grown, so has everything with it. That includes the number of residents seeing the rising trend of urban redevelopment, gentrification, over the last 30 years. That brings its own complications. In Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore’s exquisitely crafted BTTM FDRS, these creators examine an antagonist much like Candyman, but this time through the prism of gentrification.

The comic takes to a different part of Candyman’s Southside Chicago. A place called “ The Bottomyards” a highly gentrified area. A pair of city workers have a strange encounter with something hiding inside the apartment building where they’re working. As the city worker who got attacked goes into a frenzy, he runs into two friends moving in, Darla and Cynthia. Even though they’re excited to start a new part of their life, they’re not sure what to think of the building. Even their apartment has a inexplicable surprise waiting for them. Darla becomes conflicted. This is the same neighborhood her Dad grew up in, but it’s nothing she knows about. Something is very strange and utterly apparent to her and Cynthia.

Overall, both a powerful and enigmatic tome that at its size feels as though this story could go even longer. These two creators are at the top of their game. The story by Daniels is well developed and masterfully told. The art by Passmore is both endearing and captivating. Altogether, a story that feels like where Sorry To Bother You left off but peels even more layers than that iconic film did.

Story: Ezra Clayton Daniels Art: Ben Passmore
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Buy

Fantagraphics to publish BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore

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Fantagraphics hasannounced the acquisition of BTTM FDRS by writer Ezra Claytan Daniels and artist Ben Passmore. Out in Summer 2019, this shocking satire explores a world where gentrification and body horror collide in a rapidly changing Chicago.

Once a thriving working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, The “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer, Darla, and her image-obsessed BFF, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they discover something far more seductive… and deadly.

At its core, BTTM FDRS is an allegory for cultural appropriation, which first fears, then desires, then takes, then nullifies the object of appropriation without suffering personal consequence. Diverse, dynamic, and thought-provoking, BTTM FDRS aims to appeal to an audience that encompasses anyone who enjoys smart writing with thrilling visuals