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Preview: Awaken Skies #0

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AWAKEN SKIES #0

Frank Mastromauro – Story / Marco Lorenzana – Art / Justice – Colors

It’s our newest comic’s debut and a new world of flight prepares to take the Aspen Universe by storm!

In the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, Spain, a covert scientist discovers that possessing valuable data that could change the world comes with a dangerous price. However, it may be far too late for him to escape before the powers that be come to collect! Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a loving suburban family makes a similar discovery, that the world is indeed much smaller than it seems, and no one is safe!

AWAKEN SKIES #0 is in stores June 13th, 2018!

Don’t miss the thrilling opening chapter to Aspen’s newest action-adventure series from creator and writer Frank Mastromauro (Shrugged, Overtaken), artist Marco Lorenzana, digital-inks by Mark Roslan, colors by Justice, and letters by Taylor Esposito.

FC 24 pages $1.50

Aspen Comics Debuts Awaken Skies #0 this June

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Aspen Comics is celebrating fifteen years of publishing in 2018, and the publisher will be releasing several all-new properties in addition to bringing back classic series from their library of titles. One of the aforementioned new properties set to debut on June 13th with a zero issue is the action-adventure series Awaken Skies created by Frank Mastromauro with art by Marco Lorenzana, Justice, and lettering by Taylor Esposito. Solicitation copy for Awaken Skies #0 reads:

A new world of flight prepares to take the Aspen Universe by storm!

In the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, Spain, a covert scientist discovers that possessing valuable data that could change the world comes with a dangerous price. However, it may be far too late for him to escape before the powers that be come to collect! Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a loving suburban family makes a similar discovery, that the world is indeed much smaller than it seems, and no one is safe!

Awaken Skies #0 features two direct edition covers by series artist Lorenzana and Aspen newcomer Mauricio Campetella.

Aspen Announces Soulfire, Awaken Skies, and Artifact One

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Aspen Comics has announced their final wave of new releases for their 15-Year Anniversary campaign. The Aspen Wave 3 titles follow the publisher’s anniversary year pattern of bringing back classic series such as their top selling Michael Turner’s Fathom and Executive Assistant: Iris while debuting new properties throughout 2018. Wave 3 kicks off with Aspen’s flagship title, Michael Turner’s Soulfire:

July:

Michael Turner’s Soulfire returns for its seventh volume and celebrates its fifteen-year anniversary since its inception in 2013, with Aspen veteran writer J.T. Krul and art by newcomer Chahine Ladjouze and Wes Hartman on July 18th coinciding with summer’s biggest comic book celebration, San Diego Comic Con International 2018.

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of its creation, Michael Turner’s incredible vision of magic and wonder returns for an all-new volume! As the new age of magic continues in the shadows of this future landscape, Malikai and his friends try to enjoy a little down time, but such plans never seem to last. Grace continues to serve as a protector for all things magic, more specifically the dragons, but she is growing tired of having to keep the true power of the world a secret. And, there is a new danger on the horizon, a new figure in the Soulfire universe who may be the greatest threat to the fragile balance between magic and technology yet!

August:

Awaken Skies, an all-new title from Aspen created by Frank Mastromauro with art by Marco Lorenzana and Justice releases in August with a zero available on June 13th. Solicitation copy for Awaken Skies #0 reads:

A new world of flight prepares to take the Aspen Universe by storm! In the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, Spain, a covert scientist discovers that possessing valuable data that could change the world comes with a dangerous price. However, it may be far too late for him to escape before the powers that be come to collect! Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a loving suburban family makes a similar discovery, that the world is indeed much smaller than it seems, and no one is safe!

September:

Aspen’s supernatural action-adventure series Dellec returns for a second volume in September following the character’s recent appearance in the Aspen series No World. Created and written by Frank Mastromauro and Vince Hernandez, the publisher will release more details soon.

October:

Artifact One, a brand new action-adventure series from creators/writers Vince Hernandez and J.T. Krul and illustrated by Romina Moranelli, debuts in October with a zero issue available on August 22nd. Aspen will release official solicitation copy and more details soon.

November:

The hit 2017 series No World returns for a second volume in November from writers Scott Lobdell and Blake Northcott with art by Giuseppe Cafaro. The No World title unites many of Aspen’s most popular characters in one action-adventure series with a rotating cast each volume.

Preview: Overtaken #3

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OVERTAKEN #3

Frank Mastromauro – Story / Marco Lorenzana – Art / Justice, Enrica Eren Angiolini – Colors

Prepare yourself to be – OVERTAKEN!

Alone on a strange new world, Will and Jessica Harden find themselves face to face against an enemy that is only out for one thing – their lives! Outnumbered and running low on weapons, their hope for survival is slim. But, if they can stay alive just long enough, help may arrive in the most unlikely of forms.

Written and created by Frank Mastromauro, featuring artwork by the talented newcomer Marco Lorenzana, OVERTAKEN is going to take your breath away and leave you gasping for more!

OVERTAKEN #3 is in stores July 5th, 2016!

FC 32 pages $3.99

Preview: Fathom Blue #6

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FATHOM BLUE #6

Vince Hernandez – Story / Claudio Avella – Art / Colors – Justice & JUANCHOo

The epic conclusion to the first volume brings the fragile team of Blue outcasts to their breaking point, as the forces of two worlds, above and below, collide on a cataclysmic level! Don’t miss out on the finale of the most talked about new Fathom series!

FATHOM BLUE #6 is in stores December 23rd, 2015!

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Preview: Fathom Blue #5

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FATHOM BLUE #5

Vince Hernandez – Story / Claudio Avella – Art / Colors – Justice

Elia attempts to discover more of Eries’ past and his reasons for seeking the genocide of the Human race. However, their tenuous encounter could prove to undo the Blue’s existence altogether. Meanwhile, the team puts into motion their plan to extract the Grey Matter from The Rig but run into a fatal flaw in their plan of attack—one that could cost all of them their lives!

FATHOM BLUE #5 is in stores November 18th, 2015!

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Review: Batman/Superman #22

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bmsm022This series is at the crossroads of one of the strangest meetings in comic history.  While the history of comic books has evolved since its early days, two of the constants in the medium have always been Superman and Batman, the two two characters, who along with the later addition of Spider-Man can be said to be the ones which transcend the medium and enter into general public knowledge.  As the two characters that are held by DC, it has made sense to put these two together, even if they are massively different in terms of powers and abilities.  One complements the others and the pairing focuses more on their strengths than on their weaknesses.  At the moment though the two characters are in a state of flux.  Superman is depowered to a degree, and Batman is replaced.  As the series which used to focus on the relationship of these two working together, it now focuses on the two heroes trying to pick up the pieces of the changes in their lives.

The action picks up where it left off in the previous issue, with Superman and Batman in a standoff, with Batman going so far as wanting to arrest him.  It doesn’t come to pass, especially as Superman reveals his reasons for being in Gotham City.  It is soon also revealed that Lucius has been hiding a secret, one that is of great interest to Ukur, Beastlord of Subterranea, who subsequently tries to acquire this device.  With Superman taking the lead in the fight, it soon becomes evident that there is a big difference between the old and the new relationship between these two heroes, especially as Clark is trying an approach which would work with Bruce Wayne but apparently not with Jim Gordon.

As a continuation of the Truth and Justice story arcs for the new Superman, this is perhaps the best issue yet, although it still leaves a lot of room for improvement.  At the same time, the Jim Gordon Batman is still a little out-of-sorts here as elsewhere, with his first reaction to any superhero is to try to arrest them, a characteristic which would not have been true with either Batman or Jim Gordon, yet is supposed to be different here for some reason.  Thus while there are signs of improvement, there are also still flaws here, and it remains to be seen if the story will reach where it needs to be for this to work before the fans start grumbling for the return of their heroes how they like them.

Story: Greg Pak  Art: Ardian Syaf
Story: 7.7 Art: 7.7  Overall: 7.7  Recommendation: Read

 

 

Review: Action Comics #42

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ac042With the Truth segment of this Superman crossover finished after one month, the story now moves on to Justice, a change of some sort which is not immediately evident to the reader.   The move to deconstruct Superman to show that he is super beyond his powers is an intriguing venture, but thus far there has been very little of a unified approach as to how he is being portrayed.  The somewhat directionless approach has spilled over into four different series, but with each one set in a different time and place with different stakes on the line, and so it makes what is going on a bit hard to grasp.

The heart of the story line can be likely tied to Action Comics.  Superman-Wonder Woman and Superman-Batman looked at his relationship with those two heroes, and the main Superman book seemed a bit hesitant to get into the new Superman, Action Comics has thus far been responsible for the setup and delivery of most of the differences.  AS was previously shown, Superman returns to Metropolis, mostly powerless and faces against a police force that is tired of cleaning up after him, and yet also a group of citizens who stand by him for all that he has done.  As a shadow beast attacked the neighborhood, he was forced to intervene, and the two groups, both pro- and anti- faced off.  This is the followup to the first issue of this arc, where Superman attacks the shadow beast, and where the citizens face off against the police.  The battle with the shadow beast is fun enough, especially as Superman realizes that he can’t do everything that he used to, but the protests of the citizens come up a bit empty.  In a story with a superpowered alien fighting a shadow beast, it is the protest which comes off as the most unlikely part of the story.

Stories from the big two comic publishers often have a problem of avoiding controversy.  Four years ago the Occupy Wall Street movement took off and caused some people to reconsider what they took for granted as the system in place in North America for economics, and now finally DC has gotten around to its own demonstration, though this one is seemingly self-aware.  It should be said that the plot point of superheroes getting sued is one which should probably never be breached in comics.  Just like their fantastical powers which defy most of what we know of science, it is a state of being in the superhero world that superheroes are not responsible for their damage, otherwise most superhero books would turn into one lawsuit after another.  While the action here did a decent job of living up to the name of the titular series, the setup does not, nor does it really do justice to any comics.  This new direction for Superman is still trying to change the boundaries of what defines the hero, it is just not really clear if it is going about it the right way.

Story: Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder Art: Aaron Kuder
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Pass