Best of 2018: Comic Books

By Pastrami Nation Staff It was a great year for comic books in 2018, and it was hard to choose just 5 for the best of the year. With books like Old Man Hawkeye and Black Hammer just missing the cut, as well as the fantastic Friendo and Fearscape, but we had to narrow it down to the top five […]

Upgrade Soul Lands on Year-End Lists Everywhere

By Staff Reports Upgrade Soul, one of the most talked about graphic novels of 2018, was named as one of The Library Journal’s Best of 2018 this week, following the book’s appearance on Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018 in October. Additionally, the book was recently selected as one of the year’s best graphic novels by online retail giant, Amazon. Upgrade Soul had previously won the 2017 […]

Lion Forge Announces Ezra Claytan Daniel’s Upgrade Soul Los Angeles Area Homecoming Events

By Staff Reports Following the nationwide book tour supporting the release of Ezra Claytan Daniels’s Upgrade Soul, winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics, recently optioned for film by Aperture Entertainment, and voted as one of the best books of the year for 2018 by Publisher’s Weekly, Lion Forge announces Daniels’s return home to Los Angeles with three special […]

Upgrade Soul Review: A Better You?

When you think of comic books, the epitome of stereotypes either falls into the bright caped world of superheroes or the juvenile hijinks of a “for kids” comic book. In the last decade or so, we have seen this stereotype get broken down by comics about any story you could possibly imagine. With Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels, we […]