A Taste of Ribald Fantasy

In a span of a two weeks, fans of ribald fantasy stories have been given the gift of three comics featuring plenty of bloody hacking and slashing, foul language, and the triple threat of male, female, and non-human nudity. I joyously sat down last night to read all three. (read more)

Cereal

In Cereal, writer Mark Russell takes iconic breakfast cereal mascots and re-imagines them as characters facing terrible dangers in their respective homelands. (read more)

Transformers #1 and #2

The franchise left IDW and landed at Image Comics under the Skybound banner. The move certainly generated some chatter around the store. My personal interest was solely based on the name at the top of the cover: Daniel Warren Johnson. He’s the writer and artist of two of my most recent favourite comics miniseries– Do a Powerbomb! and Murder Falcon— and he takes on those chores for Transformers. (read more)

Gideon Falls volume 3

What kept me going in the early issues was the art gymnastics. I feel like the creative team is taking some big risks here with a story that provides almost zero answers for the first--- testing my memory here-- 12 issues. Volume 3 is definitely where the groundwork starts to pay off. (read more)

Queen & Country

Queen & Country is available in three definitive editions from Oni Press and it is a set I like to keep in stock even though I might only sell one edition every 2 years. Dana and I talked about this the other day over breakfast. If you run a comic shop there are certain titles you keep in stock to demonstrate you know your craft. (read more)