Tokyo Ghost earns its title with the kickoff for the second arc By Nolan P. Smith For a book titled Tokyo Ghost, I often wondered why such a title was chosen. I could see the Tokyo part, as it is one of the only places not infected with the technological addiction that is inflicted on humanity. But with this issue, […]
Huck reaches it’s finale with a bang By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—One of the most interesting and entertaining series comes to a close this week as Huck #6 hit stores this Wednesday. Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque’s story of an unlikely superhero reaches its finale, with explosions and closure to boot. This issue sees Huck and his super powered […]
Invincible, Chrononauts, Monstress and More Lead Eisners Nominations for Image Comics (By Nolan P. Smith)– It is that time of the year again: Eisner season! Comic-Con International announced the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2016 this morning and Image Comics has announced that 18 nominations come from their awesome variety of books. Fourteen nominations were for books […]
Grizzly Shark #1: Now in terrifying full color! By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Back in 2010, Ryan Ottley (Invincible) and Jason Howard (Astounding Wolf Man) released a book at Image called Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark- mixing up the two beasts, with the shark stalking the woodlands and the bear being a terror of the sea. It was a one […]
Image Comics Announces an Array of New Titles at the Image Expo (By Staff Reports)– Today at the Showbox Market Theater in Seattle, Washington, Image Comics kicked-off Emerald City Comicon with IMAGE EXPO and a slew of exciting creator-owned announcements that set the comics and entertainment industry abuzz. Image Comics revealed the following creator-owned projects set to launch in the […]
Image Comics Brings Exclusives to Emerald City Comicon (By Staff Reports) Image Comics is pleased to return to Seattle this year for Emerald City Comicon on Thursday, April 7 through Sunday, April 10. LIMITED IMAGE EXPO VARIANTS SOLD AT THE IMAGE BOOTH (#316): BLACK ROAD #1 by Brian Wood and Garry Brown, cover art by Garry Brown THE FIX #1 […]
The Rattler is a Non Stop Thriller in Sequential Art By Nolan P. Smith For Mature Readers (Victor Valley)– When I decided to finally check out The Rattler- I’ll admit, I didn’t really have a clue what the book was about. I had heard rumblings of it off the internet, and then I received word that Image Comics would be […]
Image Comics Collects Nailbiter in a Hardcover, Murder Edition By Art Macias Contributing Guest Reviewer This hardcover of the Nailbiter series from Image Comics features issues 1-10, which were originally published back in 2014 and was critically acclaimed upon its release. It centers on the story of Edward Charles Warren: a serial killer known for kidnapping men and women and […]
Take a Bite Out of She Wolf from Image Comics By Staff Reports SHE WOLF, by fan-favorite cartoonist Rich Tommaso (DARK CORRIDOR) will lead the pack this June with a chilling, fever-dream mystery that will keep fans hooked from page one. A surreal exploration in horror, SHE WOLF follows a teenage girl who believes she’s been bitten by a savage […]
Part 1 of our coverage, including a look at WonderCon 2016 Cosplay, is here! By Nolan P. Smith Photos by Jason T. Smith WonderCon 2016 is taking place this weekend, having kicked off Friday and coming to an end on Easter Sunday, and that means WonderCon 2016 Cosplay coverage. The Pastrami Nation team headed out to the convention all day […]
Welcome to the world of The Beauty By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– If you could make yourself beautiful by simply catching a disease, would you? Aside from amazing good looks, you would have mild side effects such as a slight fever, higher metabolism, and spontaneous human combustion! Welcome to the world of The Beauty. In this world […]
Millar and Albuquerque’s Huck goes full-speed ahead with issue #5 By Nolan P. Smith Editor It’s no secret: I am a huge fan of Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque’s Huck from Image Comics. With issue #5, our hero is in the most unwelcome of situations, as he and his mother have been taken by someone who pretended to be Huck’s […]
By Nolan P. Smith (Originally ran on High Desert Daily) Next week is a busy week for comic book fans- first, we get a movie we have all been clamoring for since we read a comic, and then we have a mega gathering of all things pop. First, let’s start with Superman V Batman: Dawn of Justice. The Zack Snyder […]
Tokyo Ghost mesmerizes while showing that technology is like a drug By Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—Post apocalyptic tales are something writer Rick Remender knows a lot about. The man has written some of the absolute best books when it comes to bleak outlooks, like two of his current series, Devolution and Tokyo Ghost, which is now collected as a […]
Self Obsessed Hits the Web March 22nd Cartoonist Sina Grace will debut a web series based on his 2015 Image Comics graphic novel SELF-OBSESSED on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Directed by friend and longtime collaborator on the hit comic series BURN THE ORPHANAGE, Daniel Freedman (Undying Love), SELF-OBSESSED is a comedic look at the life of a gay LA-based cartoonist who […]
By Nolan P. Smith Editor (Victor Valley)— When it was announced that The Discipline would be released through Image Comics, I was ecstatic. I mean, think about it: a mature readers book by Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Leandro Fernandez (Punisher: MAX)? What’s not to be excited about? The Discipline focuses on Melissa Drake- a woman with a seemingly great […]
Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to reveal sample coloring pages of The Walking Dead What could be more calming than the therapeutic coloring of New York Times bestselling THE WALKING DEAD COLORING BOOK? Color in walkers, brains, and gore galore in this official 96-page coloring book set to release from Image Comics/Skybound this May. This oversized adult coloring book features […]
The Wicked + The Divine Gets a hardcover collection this April from Image Comics (By Staff Reports)– The New York Times bestselling hit series The Wicked + The Divine by writer Kieron Gillen, artist Jamie McKelvie, and colorist Matthew Wilson will be collected into a stunning deluxe hardcover edition, with must-have bonus material and extensive commentary, available this April. “I […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– What is humanity? What does it mean to be human? As we continue to rely more and more on technology and the internet to communicate and exist, many people believe that we are losing small pieces of our humanity as we progress. This is the premise of the groundbreaking Image series Symmetry. […]
By Kevin Hoskinson Contributing Guest Reviewer Mixing the mystical with the futuristic, Snowfall is an interesting twist on what happens when our climate goes to hell, and big corporate has control of the government. Upon first glance, it feels like a fairy tale world, with its bright artwork and very first words promising such. But upon reading past the first […]
Alpha King: A tall glass of intoxicating fantasy adventure One thing that legendary cult microbrewery 3 Floyds is consistently is “not normal,” and in celebration of this originality, pub-crawling creators Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Dark Knight III: The Master Race) and Simon Bisley (Hellblazer, Lobo) have teamed up with 3 Floyds founder and brewmaster Nick Floyd along with colorist Ryan […]
The cult hit Grizzly Shark returns, now in full color Fan-favorite creators Ryan Ottley (INVINCIBLE) and Ivan Plascencia (RASPUTIN) return to the cult hit GRIZZLY SHARK, out for fresh blood this April. “I am afraid of sharks so I figured the only way to overcome my fear is to make a miniseries about them,” said Ottley. “It didn’t work at […]
Garth Ennis Crime Story Drops This May Bestselling and Eisner-Award-winning writer Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys, War Story) and artist John Higgins present the action-packed crime story, PRIDE & JOY, coming from Image Comics this May. “Pride & Joy is an old favorite of mine, and I’m delighted to see it released in this lovely new Image edition,” said Ennis. […]
The first story arc of the hit series Symmetry is collected into trade paperback Fan-favorite Matt Hawkins (THINK TANK) and artist Raffaele Ienco team up for a sci-fi story aimed at disrupting the status quo in SYMMETRY, VOL.1, set to release from Top Cow/Image Comics this May. In SYMMETRY, VOL. 1, Utopia is here. Hunger, sickness, work… they’re all relics […]
Brian K. Vaughan’s We Stand on Guard Gets Collected New York Times bestselling and multiple Eisner-award winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS, PRIVATE EYE) and legendary storyboard artist Steve Skroce’s WE STAND ON GUARD’s jaw-dropping military thriller will be collected for the first time into a deluxe hardcover edition—which will include original sketches and other never-before-seen extras—available this […]
New Magazine from Image Comics to Accompany Diamond’s Previews Catalog By Staff Reports Image Comics and Diamond Comic Distributors are pleased to announce Image+, an all-new monthly magazine which will feature Image’s upcoming releases, as well as bonus creator-owned comics content. Each issue will be distributed with Diamond’s PREVIEWS Catalog each month, with the first issue of Image+ available in […]
By Staff Reports Eisner-award nominated artist Jason Shawn Alexander (Abe Sapien: The Drowning, The Escapists), joined by newcomer and co-writer Darragh Savage, will launch a new story arc in the ongoing dystopian series EMPTY ZONE this March. Previously in EMPTY ZONE, Corinne White, ex-soldier and black-market spy, was on a slow spiral to oblivion at the bottom of a bottle […]
Review by Nolan P. Smith (Victor Valley)—I pre-ordered Mirror #1 simply by the cover art: it was so crazy looking, so out there. Now, after picking up the latest venture from Image Comics, I have to say- I made the right choice. From Emma Rios (Pretty Deadly) and Hwei Lim (Hero), we get a book very different from anything on […]
By Staff Reports The bestselling team of writer Michael Moreci (HOAX HUNTERS) and artist Kyle Charles (‘68) will launch the final story arc in their ongoing dark sci-fi series ROCHE LIMIT this March. Previously in ROCHE LIMIT, the Roche Limit colony, and consequently most of Earth itself, crumbled under the onslaught of the insidious Black Sun. Following the fan-and-critic-favorite CLANDESTINY, […]
By Staff Reports Bestselling writer Kevin McCarthy and artist Kyle Baker (Plastic Man) team up for an all-new series, CIRCUIT-BREAKER, launching from Image Comics this March. CIRCUIT-BREAKER #1 is set in the aftermath of World War IV, where the heroic robots that saved Japan during war are outlawed. Now they’re turning against mankind, waging a campaign of terror across the […]