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Batman #62 variant

The weekend has come and gone and we’re buried in snow here at GP HQ. We’ll be spending some of our day digging out (and hopefully sledding) but that doesn’t mean we won’t be delivering the latest news! So, kick off your day with some news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

ICv2 – RIP Batton Lash, Proudly Independent Creator and ‘First Gentleman of Comics’ – Out thoughts are with his friends and family.

KJZZ – Comic Book-Themed Restaurant ComicX Picks Phoenix For First U.S. Location – This could be cool. We want to go! Hopefully the food is good.

Reviews

Talking Comics – Batman #62
Atomic Junk Shop – Dog Soldiers
The Beat – Kingdom
Monkeys Fighting Robots – Kismet: Man of Fate
Atomic Junk Shop – McCay
Atomic Junk Shop – Pariah, Missouri

Preview: McCay

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MCCAY

Writer: Thierry Smolderen
Artist: Jean-Phillipe Bramanti
Publisher: Titan Comics
Imprint: Statix Comics
Hardcover, 224pp, $39.99, £35.99
On sale: November 27, 2018
ISBN: 9781785868856

Get ready for a dizzying dive into the “McCay Dimension” with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination.

McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic – though only partially true – stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay – in which McCay’s life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton.

Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension – and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both…