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ALTER EGO #125 EXAMINES AIR WA …

Media release — alter EGO #125 (84 pages with full COLOR, $8.95) telegraphs everything you ever wanted to know about LEE HARRIS—the artist/creator of the golden Age Detective Comics super-hero Air Wave—as revealed by son JONATHAN LEVEY to interviewer RICHARD J. ARNDT! There’s plenty of rarely-seen 1940s art treasures—including Lando, The Flame, green Falcon, and […]

Archie’s first openly Gay ch …

Wow, I think this proves to me that the new management at Archie Comics is serious about making some well-needed changes to modernize the titles and brand. Archie Comics has announced that in September, new character Kevin Keller will be introduced. and he’s “openly gay”, to use their terms, which has led to speculation and […]

COMICLIST PREVIEW: GHOUL SCOUT …

Media release — Something complete stranger than normal haunts full Moon Hollow, Paranormal funding of the World. Adults either can’t see it, can’t keep in mind it, or go crazy from it. So when a zombie break out threatens the town, only a group of misfit scouts can save it! Collects the fan-favorite miniseries. Be […]

BERNARD KRIGSTEIN provides YOU …

Media release — working in comic books for just over a decade in the 1940s as well as ’50s, Bernard Krigstein used all the craft, intelligence, as well as aspiration of a burgeoning “serious” artist, achieving results that stay sensational to this day. While his legend rests mainly on his landmark narratives produced for EC […]

BLOODSHOT U.S.A. HORRIFICALLY …

Media release — Valiant is pleased to present your very first look inside BLOODSHOT U.S.A. #1 (of 4) – the very first problem of the explosive standalone event roaring out of “THE FUTURE OF VALIANT”! As an unstoppable virus transforms all of new York City into a legion of horrific killing machines, join new York […]

MENTAL health by RAE SPOON

For their tenth album, this Canadian singer/songwriter writes about living with depression.  The honesty and sadness is vivid—with lyrics about birds singing “go away go away” and the singer fearing their state is infectious and will hurt the people trying to reach out to them.  
 Good stuff.  
 For fans of Aimee Mann and […]

A hole in the Heart – Myriad …

Henny Beaumont’s graphic novel-in-progress A hole in the Heart was one of the six jobs earlier this year to make it onto the Myriad very first graphic book Competition’s prestigious shortlist. The competition, of course, is one that we have covered extensively this year at damaged Frontier provided both its importance in nurturing new innovative […]

Archie aims for diversity With …

Archie Comics has announced two new writers who bring with them characters of different ethnicities. The first is their Mexican publisher, who’s been editing for 25 years: In 2005, Jesús Gil Holguí­n started publishing Spanish Language editions of Archie Comics in Mexico. Jesús is writing his first script for Archie Comics. The story will feature […]

A sentimental education by LUN …

As you may expect from one of the smoothest bands in indie, a covers album from Luna doesn’t have the songs you’d expect. Yeah, there’s a Bowie cover. however unless you’re a hardcore fan, you don’t understand the song. Yeah, the stones are here. Of a tune recorded before they were a worldwide phenomenon. as […]

ARCHIE COMICS REVIVES RED CIRC …

Media release — When it concerns superheroes, why ought to marvel as well as DC have all the fun? Archie Comics are reviving their traditional heroes from the Red Circle imprint next spring with the introduce of The new Crusaders, a team of superheroes which includes The Shield, the original patriotic hero. prepared to handle […]