This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: The Thing: King of Yancy Street The Climber Is An Incredibly Beautiful, Devastating Manga About Hubris Requiem Vampire Knight Omnibus Vol. 1 ‘The Rocketeer: The Island’ #1 is a joyous throwback that proves Cliff Secord still soars In WHITE SHADOWS, death is always near Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen – Kate Evans’s Portrait of Jane Austen Beyond the Literary Icon, from Verso

This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam’ #1 is a fun, if frivolous, side quest Adieu Birkenau – Ginette Kolinka’s Powerful, Time-Shifting Story of Holocaust Survival from SelfMadeHero Silent Pictures LEO RISING is one of Archie Bongiovanni’s best titles to date ‘Inglorious X-Force’ #1 is a blast to the past The Lexicon of Comicana – Mort Walker’s Exploration of the Language of Comics Comes B

This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like It’s Getting Worse – Fluffy is Back: A Tender, Timely Coming-of-Age Twenty Years on from Simone Lia ‘Wonder Woman: Black & Gold 2026 Special’ #1 is a worthy tribute to the Amazing Amazon Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You Is A Cozy Rom-Com Manga Earth’s Mightiest hit a milestone with AVENGERS #800 ‘Logan: Black, White & Blood’ #1 features Wol

This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #15 is the book’s best issue yet Lavender Clouds: Comics About Neurodivergence and Mental Health – Bex Ollerton’s Collection of Short Strips is Beautifully Eloquent ‘Absolute Batman: Ark M Special’ #1 is a chilling one-shot Lovers on the Last Train The Atlas Comics Library No. 8: Snafu Crowdfunding worth your time & money: NEGATIVE BURN: The Anthology The Marvel Art of DA

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

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

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

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

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

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 &

This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Crowdfunding worth your time & money: RAT KING #1 - New Comic Book Series About NYC Rats SMUT Vol. 1 - A NSFW Slice of Life Comedy: A Ringo Award winning comic about three women working together to sort through their incredibly messy love lives. Tributes: HR GIGER | A Collective Art Book Employee Disposal Program Loot Locker: Boardgame Storage box Reviews: Vivian Nguyen’s THE FOOL, THE ABSOLUTE MAD

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

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

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

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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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

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This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘The Bat-Man: Second Knight’ #1 continues to be a Golden Age masterpiece How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page GOOD AS DEAD #1 is one of the year’s best series launches, and more The Hive Vol. 1 – An Ultra-Violent Thrill-a-Minute Crime Caper from Lieberman, Henderson, Azpiazu and Image Comics ‘Marvel Zombies: Red Band’ #1 has big stakes worth inve

This past week's assorted news highlights, Kickstarters to check out, and more Reviews: ‘Spectators’ is a multi-faceted epic: The creators of Pride of Baghdad reunite for a long-awaited masterpiece X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE ALPHA #1 is a blast to the past Night Terror – Grisly, Whimsical and Sinister Dreams from John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics ‘Powers 25’ #1 celebrates a comics anniversary in style The Weight – D+Q Gives Melissa Mendes’s Beautiful Webcomic the Attention It Ha