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Posted on August 8, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

It’s a new week! What geeky things did you all do this weekend? While you kick off the week, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

ICv2 – Tapas CEO Chang Kim on the Company’s Layoffs and Abrupt Pivot Away from Original Content – An interesting read and interview.

Kotaku – Activision Is Earning More Money From Mobile Than PC And Console Combined – When will the first major comic publisher announce earning more from digital sales than print?

New York Times – Sid Jacobson, Comic Book Writer With Range, Dies at 92 – Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and fans.

Reviews

CBR – Batman: Killing Time #6
CBR – The C loset #3
CBR – Godzilla Rivals: vs. Battra #1
The Beat – Love Everlasting #1
Collected Editions – Sandman: The Deluxe Edition Book Five

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

007 #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) – A new volume and James Bond story, we’re of course excited for that.

The Closet #3 (Image Comics) – If you’re a fan of horror, this is one that’s well worth checking out. It wraps up here so make sure to pick up the first two issues if you missed out!

Dark Crisis #3 (DC Comics) – DC’s event has been interesting to start so far and with the clear Crisis on Infinite Earths tie-in, we want to see if things really start rolling now.

DC vs. Vampires #8 (DC Comics) – The series has been amazing so far. It has kept readers guessing who gets turned, who’s a vampire, and who’s not going to make it. Anything can happen!

The Dead Lucky #1 (Image Comics) – A new entry in the Massive-verse. It’s a new superhero that’s one to keep an eye on if you enjoy the genre.

Edge of Spider-Verse #1 (Marvel) – Marvel’s about to do something big with the Spider-Verse and things get rolling here!

Golden Rage #1 (Image Comics) – In this world, older women are abandoned on an island. Watch as they make friends, bake dessert, and fight to the death.

Metal Society #4 (Image Comics) – The battle between humankind and robot is getting more and more tense as the societies begin to polarize.

Mind MGMT: Bootleg #2 (Dark Horse) – The series returned with the awesome mindtwisting visuals and story we expected. A welcome return and we hope to launch this property even further out there.

Sacrament #1 (AWA Studios) – Pitched as The Exorcist meets Alien. Yeah, we’re in for that.

Survival Street #1 (Dark Horse) – The country has been deregulated and carved up by corporations. A group of former public broadcasting edutainers have banded together as a type of A-Team to help children and fighting for them in the war zone of New Best America.

Sword of Azrael #1 (DC Comics) – Jean-Paul Valley does not want to be Azrael ever again. But he’ll need to don his mantle once more to stop deadly assassins.

X-Men Red #5 (Marvel) – After A.X.E.: Judgement Day‘s opening, don’t you want to see what happens!?

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Posted on July 8, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

The weekend is almost here! What geeky things are you all doing? Any conventions you going to? Sound off in the comments below.

Comicbook – 86: Eighty-Six Manga Canceled – A shame, it was a good manga.

ICv2 – People on the Move: Richard Rivera Is New Co-Publisher at Scout – Very interesting.

The Beat – ReedPop takes on the challenge of E3 – but can they make it work? – Good luck!

Reviews

CBR – The Closet #2
CBR – Elusive Samurai Vol. 1
CBR – Rogues Gallery #1

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Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Absolution #1 (AWA Studios) – A hired killer has a month to prove she can change before the bomb implanted in her head explodes.

The Ballad of Gordon Barleycorn #1 (Black Caravan/Scout Comics) – Gordon and his manager Giuseppe are hunted down by a religious debt collector who’s come to make him pay for his past. Yeah, this sounds like the weird we enjoy.

Batman #125 (DC Comics) – The new creative team of Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez begin their run here!

Behemoth #1 (Black Caravan/Scout Comics) – Theresa wakes up have turned into a monster, then thrown into a detention camp where the government wants to turn her into a weapon.

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #2 (Marvel) – The two Captain America series are interesting in how they’re similar and differ. This one focuses on Steve and Bucky as they begin their missions.

The Closet #2 (Image Comics) – The series follows a family as they move across the country and a creature from the closet follows them along the way.

DC vs. Vampires #7 (DC Comics) – The second half of the miniseries begins here as the world has been taken over by superpowered vampires. Will anyone be able to stop them?

Mega Centurions #1 (Scout Comics) – Former heroes lives are turned upside down when a face from the past comes crashing back into their lives.

Metal Society #3 (Image Comics) – A really intriguing sci-fi series that sees humans fighting for their rights through combat to overthrow their robot overlords.

Mind MGMT: Bootleg #1 (Dark Horse) – Matt Kindt’s mindbending superspy series returns with Farel Dalrymple on art!

Prodigy: Icarus Society #1 (Image Comics) – A new series from Mark Millar is always on the radar.

Promethee 1313 #1 (Ablaze) – What if you knew the world was about to end? What would you be willing to do to save the people you love?

Starhenge: Dragon & Boar #1 (Image Comics) – Liam Sharp launches a creator owned series! A future Merlin travels to 5th-century Britain to prevent monstrous time-traveling killer robots from robbing the universe of magic.

There’s Something Wrong with Patrick Todd #1 (AfterShock) – A fifteen year old is on the run and using his telepathic abilities to force people to rob backs then turn themselves in.

Tiger’s Tongue #1 (Mad Cave Studios) – Twin princesses hold the future of their people in their hands as they face the brink of war.

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Posted on June 3, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

The weekend is almost here! What geeky things are you all doing? Sound off in the comments below! While you wait for the weekday to end and the weekend to begin, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

The Mary Sue – If You Like Gay as Hell Manga, Here Are 14 Upcoming Releases to Check Out During Pride Month – What else would you suggest?

CBR – Sony’s Morbius Returns to Theaters – On to a Morbillion dollars! It’s Morbin time!

Review

CBR – Carnage #3
CBR – The Closet #1
Atomic Junk Shop – Graceling
The Beat – Verse

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Review: The Closet #1

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Brett

I’ve never been the biggest fan of horror. Slasher horror of the 80s wasn’t for me and the over the top gore porn decades later was absolutely not my cup of tea. But, I’ve found over the years I do enjoy horror that’s more suspenseful with a psychological twist. James Tynion IV has been delivering that with The Nice House on the Lake over at DC Comics which blends that suspense with sci-fi mystery. Now, The Closet #1 kicks off a new horror series from Tynion but this time at Image Comics.

The Closet #1 is an interesting start as it’s all about the tension. We meet a young family, a husband who feels abused, a frustrated wife, and their child who’s afraid of the monster in the closet. They’re packing up their belongings to move to a new city for a fresh start.

There’s a lot to relate here, especially as a parent. You can feel the exhaustion from everyone and the tension between parents. You also have to wonder what Tynion is going for here as well.

It’s easy to look at the monster as a metaphor for this family’s situation. Parents who don’t get along. A young child witnessing the arguing. It’s not hard to see the layers within the story. But, we honestly don’t know a whole lot.

The Closet #1 is an intriguing start because it tells us the bare minimum. The father is a fuck-up and is abused in some ways. But, instead of trying to fix things he drowns his sorrows in a beer and longs for youthful days. The mother is rightfully frustrated and trying to shield their child from the friction between the parents. The child wants to be protected. Tynion might be delivering a metaphor about today’s familial tension so many are experiencing and is ready to explode in most likely negative ways.

The art by Gavin Fullerton is pretty solid delivering a rough dirty look at this life. The art has a style that feels a bit more like the noir work between Brubaker and Phillips giving the comic a mystery and slightly sad look to it all. With Chris O’Halloran on color and Tom Napolitano on lettering, the visuals for the comic is very focused on the small details. A look of a face. They body language of a character. The items in the house. It all adds up to telling a deeper story about this family and its members. The shrug of a shoulders and furrow of an eyebrow says far more than any of the dialogue.

The Closet #1 is an intriguing start. It very much sets up who these characters are and the conflict they face with each other but beyond that… not much. There’s some teases as what’s to come but not much more. It’s focus is on delivering characters we can relate with an conflict so many have experienced with each other. The manufactured scares can wait, the melting of an family delivers enough of that in this first issue.

Story: James Tynion IV Art: Gavin Fullerton
Color: Chris O’Halloran Letterer: Tom Napolitano
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: comiXology/Kindle – Zeus Comics – TFAW

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila (Tuttle Publishing) – It’s a graphic novel focused on Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense!

Bikini Atoll (Clover Press) – A danger in the water story just in time for summer!

The Closet #1 (Image Comics) – Writer James Tynion IV has been killing it lately so just his name on this tale of existential horror has us intrigued.

Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis (DC Comics) – The opening chapter of DC’s next big events was so-so, but we’re still intrigued by this one-shot comic that fives us a world where the Justice League is gone.

Neverender #1 (Behemoth Comics) – At the edge of civilization the dominant sport is a civilized sword duel to the death.

Newthink #1 (AWA Studios) – This anthology examines the rapid proliferation of technology, the cultural and political polarization of the country, and the technocrats that have driven us to such extremes of thought that we need to present the present as something…futuristic.

The Nice House on the Lake #9 (DC Comics/DC Black Label) – We’ve been loving this series that has us guessing as to what exactly is going on and where it’s going.

Phalanx (Image Comics) – Image is celebrating 30 years and this one-shot that seems to be having fun with the Image of old feels like it’d be nostalgic fun.

Shadow War: Omega (DC Comics) – The finale to the mini-event that will lead directly into DC’s next big summer event.

Triskele #1 (Scout Comics) – When young Alec Ellis is granted a magical gift on Samhain night, the scales of power on the island of Albion are inadvertently shifted.

James Tynion IV and Gavin Fullerton show us horror as they open up The Closet

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Graphic Policy Team

Bestselling writer James Tynion IV and artist Gavin Fullerton invite readers to a new tale of existential familial horror in the upcoming, The Closet. The three issue miniseries will launch in June from Image Comics in print format for the first time.

In The Closet, Thom is moving cross-country with his family and dragging the past along with them. His son, Jamie, is seeing monsters in the bedroom closet and will not let them go.

The Closet #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 1: