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New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: Sci-Fi
Stimulus TP From the creator of Raiders, Kali, and Birdking comes this kinetic science fiction graphic novel featuring twelve interconnected stories illustrated by multiple leading artists in the comic book industry. A blood-soaked briefcase full of cash. A mind reader hellbent on crime. An errant soldier turned hitman. Earthly homunculus. Crystal women. Men made of stars. Deviant frog people. Sorceress succubi. Advanced space-force fighter pilots. Avenging vampires. Sentient

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10 hours ago5 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 1/7/26
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Dungeons of Doom’ #1 is a strong supernatural opening The Life and Times of Ricky Lawless— Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips Giant Size Criminal #1 Moving at the Speed of Concrete: “The Transatlantic Swim” Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell Crowdfunding worth your time & money: Where No One Goes - A Graphic Novel by Zorika Gaeta HP Lovecraft's The Shad

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6 days ago2 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: DC
Sirens: Love Hurts #1 HARLEY, IVY, CATWOMAN, AND BLACK CANARY BROUGHT TO YOU BY FAN-FAVORITE CREATORS TINI HOWARD AND BABS TARR! Introducing Gotham's most eligible bachelorettes... for at least a little while longer! First, there's Catwoman, who's been playing cat and mouse with her two favorite boy toys — Bruce Wayne and the Dark Knight himself, Batman. Next up? Harley Quinn, who's recently single and now committed only to her hot girl era. Of course, there's also Poison Ivy

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Jan 66 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 12/31/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD – BATMAN AND WONDER WOMAN RODNEY R RODNEY is a nightmare, a neighbor AIPT’s Best Comics of 2025: Part 1 The Mighty Nein has already surpassed Legend of Vox Machina as Critical Role's best show Comics Journal: The best comics of 2025, as chosen by our contributors Crowdfunding worth your time & money: FROM CHILE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION—JODOROWSKY & RODRÍGUEZ Cuetzp

Trusty Henchman
Dec 31, 20252 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: X-Men
Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #1 THE WAR ABOVE ALL... ...the most dangerous war in existence — thunders louder and closer. As the cosmos brace for annihilation, STORM, unaware of the coming threat, turns her gaze inward — to her home — to EARTH. The Earth's Mightiest Mutant becomes Earth's protector once more... in a daring new chapter of her life. In this new beginning, STORM shares a Japanese tea ceremony with an enemy and visits France for a masquerade with monsters. How

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Dec 29, 20254 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 12/24/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Spirit of the Shadows’ #1 is bold, weird, and bursting with imagination SHADOWS OF THE SEA seeks hope in an absurd world ‘DC K.O.: Harley Quinn vs Zatanna’ #1 gets magical and metaphysical Rebellion’s SCREAM collections are a treasure trove for horror fans A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal: For the characters in Lee Lai’s “Cannon,” home is the place most resistant to r

Trusty Henchman
Dec 24, 20252 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: Crime
Five Gears in Reverse: A Criminal Book HC A brand new CRIMINAL graphic novel featuring the legendary RICKY LAWLESS and the crazy tale of how he and MALLORY fell in love in the midst of a crime spree. In one of the wildest, most action-packed books that Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, we delve deep into the life of one of CRIMINAL's most complex and tragic characters, Ricky Lawless as he tries to pay off a deep debt to a mobster, while things just keep going from bad to

Trusty Henchman
Dec 23, 20255 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: Horror
The Missionary HC Writer Ryan Stegman (VENOM, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, VANISH) and artist Jason Howard (BATMAN, TREES, BIG GIRLS, THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN) team up to create THE MISSIONARY, a horror comic for the ages. Bryce Hunter is a devoutly religious man whose faith is shattered when he catches his wife being... Intimate with an Elder from his church. This harrowing event sends Bryce spiralling into the hands of a demonic entity named Uvydus. Instead of rejecting posse

Trusty Henchman
Dec 20, 20257 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 12/17/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: A GARDEN OF SPHERES is a beautiful tale of delicate dragons and gods ‘DC K.O.: Wonder Woman vs. Lobo’ #1 is a silly slobberknocker OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say The Shadow Out of Time – Another Masterly Lovecraft Adaptation by Gau Tanabe and Dark Horse The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025 Crowdfunding worth your time & money: FREAKS’ SQUEELE: The Comp

Trusty Henchman
Dec 17, 20252 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight
A Star Called The Sun A Collection Of Short Science Fiction Stories TP, Vol. 1 A curious and peculiar collection of interconnected, character-driven sci-fi stories all set in the far future. Robotic clergy, posthuman hive-men, immortal cyborgs and ancient alien races all play a part in this collection of sci-fi adventure tales set in the universe of HABITAT and GRIZ GROBUS. This anthology collects "Hale-Bopp," "The Oxpecker and the Elephant," "Pride of the Central Republic,"

Trusty Henchman
Dec 15, 20255 min read


New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight
Darwyn Cookes The Complete Spirit Connoisseur Edition HC, Vol. 1 With his masterful storytelling and flair for noir style, DARWYN COOKE was uniquely suited to reintroduce WILL EISNER ’s beloved comics creation, THE SPIRIT , to modern audiences .Now , DARWYN ’s THE SPIRIT comic stories are collected in their entirety for the FIRST TIME in this oversized hardcover collection, presented within a beautiful slipcase. Designed by SEAN PHILLIPS , who also oversaw the Eisner-winnin

Trusty Henchman
Dec 11, 20253 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 12/10/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘The Terminator: Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ #1 brings hell to the holiday season DREAD THE HALLS and STARTLING TALES OF SANTA make Christmas scary Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a beautiful beat-'em-up throwback to a merrier Marvel era ‘Creepy Presents: Alex Toth’ honors one of horror’s greatest visual innovators Lego’s First ‘Star Trek’ Set Should Be a Sign of Great Things to Come Beauty a

Trusty Henchman
Dec 10, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 12/3/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: I Feel Awful, Thanks – Lara Pickle’s Fantasy Graphic Novel Confronts Themes of Anxiety, Stress, Bullying and Self-Worth ‘The Infernal Hulk’ #1 is a must-read chapter for longtime fans LUNASOMNIA is a cyclopean delight ‘DC’s I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus’ #1 is a festive mix of heart, humor, and heroics We are all in the gutter: Starman at 30, part 1 Crowdfunding worth your time & mon

Trusty Henchman
Dec 3, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 11/27/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: Metafictional mayhem in Morrison & Mora’s BATMAN/DEADPOOL #1 ‘Nova: Centurion’ #1 is a sharply written start Mimi Pond’s new book DO ADMIT! is an engaging dual narrative Nocturnos The anime Guillermo del Toro made James Cameron watch also blew my mind Crowdfunding worth your time & money: Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now LABYRINTH, Vol. 0 Mike Allred's Madmaniverse: Madmania #0 &

Trusty Henchman
Nov 28, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 11/12/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes’ #1 might be the DC romance fans have been waiting for 5 More Minutes – Existential Angst is at the Heart of Hannah Berry’s Study of the Mother-Daughter Relationship ‘Planet She-Hulk’ #1 has everything fans love about Jennifer Walters The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In Trieste ‘DC K.O.: Knightfight’ #1 is the fair fight we’ve always wanted GRAN FAMILIA V

Trusty Henchman
Nov 12, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 11/5/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: Diary of a Detainee – R. E. Burke’s Horrifying Story of Being Incarcerated in a Detention Centre by ICE Comes to the Comics Page ‘Absolute Batman 2025 Annual’ #1 mirrors the rage we’re all feeling Why DICK TRACY works surprisingly well with Halloween, and more The B-Rank Adventurer with a Scary Face Becomes a Father for the Hero and His Friends Volume 1 MORE WEIGHT is a monumental achievem

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Nov 5, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 10/29/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: Ben Passmore’s BLACK ARMS TO HOLD YOU UP is anathema to sterile Big Box graphic histories ‘Nocturnos’ is an uncannily familiar visual poem City Hunter Omnibus Volume 1: Ryo Saeba, Japan’s own James Bond, is back and ready for action Down North, Where No One Goes #1 – Ramón Perales Cano and Company’s Brutal Far Future Tale of Conquest and Greed The Mongoose by Joana Mosi THE ONCE AND FUTURE

Trusty Henchman
Oct 29, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 10/22/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library’ Vol. 29 shows a truly refined great artist at work Brooklyn Dreams – DeMatteis and Barr’s Darkly-Humoured Meditation on Truth and the Efficacy of Memory is an Exultant Masterpiece of Sequential Art He Was Always Himself: Hagai Palevsky on NIGHT DRIVE by Richard Sala ‘Fantastic Four/Garg

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Oct 22, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 10/8/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Spider-Man Noir’ #1 hits the ground running Hibernating – Vaso Michailidou’s Comic Debut, Where Mundane Life Collides with Surreal, Magical Chaos We go back to school with GOTHAM ACADEMY – FIRST YEAR Zigoku’s Foreman Volume 1 ROCK IS A LADY’S MODESTY proves demure ladies can rock it out, too! Crowdfunding worth your time & money: SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT: BOOK ONE - A Retro Horror Anthology DE

Trusty Henchman
Oct 8, 20252 min read


Trusty Henchman Rant: 10/1/25
This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: THE PHANTOM returns, and much more this week...

Trusty Henchman
Oct 1, 20252 min read
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