LOVE UNLIMITED: GWENPOOL #43
Writer: Jeremy Whitley
Artist: Bailie Rosenlund
Colorist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Editor: Alanna Smith
6-issue arc launches on Thursday, March 30
Gwenpool’s back and ready for love! What’s a girl to do when she finds herself the star of a romance comic? First stop–a tragic affair with a boy she can never touch!
My Bad: Volume Two #4
(W) Mark Russell, Bryce Ingman
(A/C) Peter Krause
February 22, 2023
$4.99
Emperor King returns from prison to a house full of uninvited villains! At a gathering of heroes, the Chandelier has a confession to make–one that threatens to ungather the gathered heroes! PLUS: Rush Hour experiences a weird bathroom! It’s all happening in The Important New Superhero Universe! Get in on the ground floor NOW, or repent at your leisure!
My Bad: Volume Two #4
(W) Mark Russell, Bryce Ingman
(A/C) Peter Krause
February 22, 2023
$4.99
Emperor King returns from prison to a house full of uninvited villains! At a gathering of heroes, the Chandelier has a confession to make–one that threatens to ungather the gathered heroes! PLUS: Rush Hour experiences a weird bathroom! It’s all happening in The Important New Superhero Universe! Get in on the ground floor NOW, or repent at your leisure!
Writer Saladin Ahmed, artist Megan Levens, and colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick team for the forthcoming Starsigns. This exciting new series about astrology, superpowers, and diverse found family—in the tradition of X-Men and Heroes—is set to launch in May from Image Comics.
In Starsigns, the constellations of the zodiac fall to earth, granting twelve ordinary people from very different walks of life the superhuman powers of the Starsigns. But each of them is about to learn that power always comes with a price…
Starsigns #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, May 3:
Last Line #2
Writer: Richard Dinnick
Artist: Jose Holder
Colorist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover: Andy Clarke w/ Jose Villarrubia
$4.99 / 32 pages / Color / On Sale 10.12.22
With the mystery of what lies beneath London’s subway network deepening, Sally Hazzard and Edward Tarn must follow the scant clues to the truth. But what they discover is not just a dusty abandoned Tube station, but a fantastic subterranean interplanetary travel complex. With time against them, Sally, Ed and their rag-tag team have to take the fight to the enemy as they prepare their counterattack. And this fight will take them away from everything they know to the surface of another planet…
With the mystery of what lies beneath London’s subway network deepening, Sally Hazzard and Edward Tarn must follow the scant clues to the truth.
Story: Richard Dinnick
Art: Jose Holder
Color: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
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Zeus Comics
comiXology/Kindle
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Someone is killing capes—or would be, if they were better at it. Will this crisis draw the crime-fighting Chandelier out of retirement? PLUS! Emperor King adopts a new costumed identity so he can get a date! My Bad Volume 2 #1 brings back the madcap world created by Mark Russell and Bryce Ingman in a first issue that’s as funny as it pitch sounds.
Composed of a series of shorts all tied together, My Bad Volume 2 #1 has two focuses, the murders and the date. Each brings their own insanity to the table and each will get you to laugh. These are characters who are such exaggerations they go from unlikeable to actually funny. None of these characters are good people, they’re the extremes of modern superheroes stretched even further. The powers, the personalities, the issues, are all here expanded and pumped full of jokes.
It’s hard to read My Bad Volume 2 #1 and not smile and laugh. It takes itself seriously and also sees itself as a spoof of modern superheroes. And it works so well. It, and other comics like it, are built on a love of the genre and what makes heroes and villains larger than life. It’s not just their powers but their personality quirks and the strange lives they live. Russell and Ingman take that all to the extremes for a great result.
The assassination attempts, the date, like early Tarantino films, the various short stories all come together to build a bigger picture and cohesive narrative. But, each of the segments can work on their own too delivering enough for the punchline and packed with silliness. This is a comic that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
The art by Peter Krause and Joe Orsak with color by Kelly Fitzpatrick by Paul Little and lettering Rob Steen is solid. Each character’s design is as exaggerated as their personality challenging the reader as to where to look for the jokes. Add in a brilliant design for the assassin and his victims and it’s a comic whose laughs come from all over.
My Bad Volume 2 #1 left me with a smile on my face as a reader and got me to actually laugh out loud multiple times. It’s a silly love letter to superheroes that loves its genre and has no problem making fun of it too. A definite must get for those who need a pick me up.
Story: Mark Russell, Bryce Ingman Art: Peter Krause, Joe Orsak
Color: Kelly Fitzpatrick, Paul Little Letterer: Rob Steen
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy
AHOY Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Purchase: Zeus Comics – comiXology/Kindle
Top Cow is giving veterans a platform to share their experiences in the service through sequential storytelling with a new anthology Soldier Stories, coming this November 9th, 2022. With the release less than a month away, Top Cow has revealed the Cover B variant by artist Marc Silvestri.
The anthology will feature an excerpt by the late Denny O’Neil, writer and editor of many marvel and DC Comics, including The Amazing Spider-man and Green Lantern/Green Arrow.
Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined across a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.
Last Line #2
Writer: Richard Dinnick
Artist: Jose Holder
Colorist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover: Andy Clarke w/ Jose Villarrubia
$4.99 / 32 pages / Color / On Sale 10.12.22
With the mystery of what lies beneath London’s subway network deepening, Sally Hazzard and Edward Tarn must follow the scant clues to the truth. But what they discover is not just a dusty abandoned Tube station, but a fantastic subterranean interplanetary travel complex. With time against them, Sally, Ed and their rag-tag team have to take the fight to the enemy as they prepare their counterattack. And this fight will take them away from everything they know to the surface of another planet…
Top Cow gives alternative veteran voices a platform to tell their stories in Soldier Stories. The anthology is set to release the week of Veterans Day on November 9th to honor veterans, including the creators of this anthology: Brian Anthony (USA), Jalysa Conway (UAF), Megan Ferrell Burke (USMC), and Rev. William J. Bellamy (ARNG). Ken Pisani (AMP’D), is a Los Angeles Times best-selling author integral in organizing and making this anthology happen.
These stories will allow readers to step briefly into the boots of men and women who bravely served, to witness heightened versions of the sacrifices that they made during their time in the military. Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict, all written by veterans who served from the Vietnam era to Afghanistan. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been reimagined a cross a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What’s it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare, has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not?
These are personal stories, compelling stories, stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.
Soldier Stories will come to comic shops on November 9th and features covers by Billy Tucci and Marc Silvestri.
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