PORTLAND, Ore 06/24/2021 — Image/Skybound today announced that Skybound Comet, a new original graphic novel imprint aimed at Young Adult (ages 12+) and Middle Grade (ages 8-12) audiences, will launch next year everywhere books are sold. Skybound Comet officially takes flight in July 2022 with Clementine Book One, beginning a trilogy set in the world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, from award-winning writer/artist Tillie Walden (Spinning, On A Sunbeam). This will be followed by original […]
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Pullbox Review: The Blue Flame – Damned With Faint Praise
The Blue Flame GN Writing and Art: Rees Finlay Cover Art: Paulette Arochena Available now at Drive Thru Comics Two months ago, I read a snippet of a graphic novel that started, “07/05/2016 CHAPTER ONE: The morning I woke up and my leg did not work.” Intrigued, I read the next 14 pages in about a […]
Pullbox Reviews: The Killing Joke – Better Late Than Never
The Killing Joke Director: Sam Liu Writer: Brian Azzarello Producers: Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Sam Register Through DC Comics/Warner Bros. Animation. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Starring the voices of: Kevin Conroy (Batman), Mark Hamill (Joker), Tara Strong (Batgirl/Barbara Gordon), Ray Wise (Commissioner Gordon) Based on Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Bolland and Alan […]
Pullbox Review: Southern Bastards #14 – Definitely Not Sweet Home Alabama
Southern Bastards #14 Writer: Jason Aaron Art & Color: Jason Latour Letters: Jared K. Fletcher Published by: Image Comics Available now Southern Bastards was a discovery made by recommendation, and I’ve never regretted the read. It’s an uncompromising look at a southern town where the powerful are the law, and both racism and misogyny run […]
MSP Comic Con: It’s All About the Comics
MSP Comic Con May 14-15, Saint Paul, MN In early 2000, I had plans to move in with my new boyfriend and start a new life living in Southern MN. He’d spent the first month of our relationship the previous year collecting information that not only was I not adverse to his “comic collecting hobby,” […]
Pullbox Reviews: Heartthrob #1 – A New Lease on Life
Heartthrob #1 Writer: Christopher Sebela Art: Robert Wilson IV Colors: Nick Filardi Publisher: Oni Press Available: April 20, 2016 The story had me from “…I’ve been dying all my life.” Heartthrob is a 1970’s love story; a boy-meets-girl tale. The disco fashions are rampant, and smoke hangs in the air. The only thing that sets […]
Pullbox Reviews: Imposter #1 – Who is your hero?
Imposter #1 Writer – James Patrick Art – Martin Szymanski Colors – Osmarco Valladao Letters – ET Dollman Cover – Victor Santos Publisher: 21 Pulp Available: February 10, 2016 Order now from your Local Comic Store! Hero Hourly was sold out through Diamond, and you will need to order ahead to get your copy. You’re […]
Pullbox Reviews: Faith #1 – The Hero I Wanted
FAITH #1 (of 4) Written by JODY HOUSER Art by FRANCIS PORTELA and MARGUERITE SAUVAGE Covers by JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC, MARGUERITE SAUVAGE, CLAYTON HENRY, KANO and COLLEEN COOVER VALIANT COMICS Available date: January 27, 2016 ORDER NOW! Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert – a psionically gifted “psiot” discovered by the Harbinger Foundation – has […]
Pullbox Review: Seduction of the Innocent – “True Crime done right”
Seduction of the Innocent #1 (of 4) Writer: Ande Parks Art: Esteve Polls Cover: Francesco Francavilla Page Count: 32 pages Publisher: Dynamite ON SALE DATE: December 2 Gritty, sometimes depraved crime fiction in the tradition of James Elroy, Jim Thompson and EC-era crime and horror comics, from the team that brought you The Death of […]
Pullbox Review: Six-Gun Gorilla: Pen & Ink Vol. 1 – “Movie without a score AWESOMENESS”
Six-Gun Gorilla: Pen & Ink Vol. 1 Writer: Simon Spurrier Artist: Jeff Stokely Boom! Studios, Available November 18, 2015 Welcome to “the Blister,” a bizarre other-world colonized by humans sometime in the 22nd century, which quickly became a hotly contested source of fertile land and natural resources long ago exhausted on Earth. In this new […]