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Kieran Alexander – writer Christopher Wood – artist Independently published, 2023 When we write a review for this website, we think about the best way of cataloguing it by genre. This for people interested in those topics queued on the righthand side of this webpage (assuming you are reading this critique on a laptop). The process of taxonomy often stumps us. Such is the variety of the medium of comic books: it has led us to create many more categories of theme than we would ever have anticipated. We did not have a category for “surreal”. With this title, now we do. The Coffee Table starts off with a delight of absurdity. A bland coffee table in a share house decides that it will pay $100 for each cup of coffee placed upon it. The cup must be white. It must contain coffee. The cup will then disappear. In the
Creator: Dustin Weaver ( @dustinweaver12 ) Image Comics, June 2024 We were delighted to have stumbled across this title in a book shop, and dismayed at having never heard of it. It is the most innovative comic we have read so far this year. How could it have evaded our attention? Creator Dustin Weaver has worked up a concoction which is one half noir, one half science fiction, a dash of horror, and a shot of genuine artistic brilliance. Here is publisher Image Comics’ pitch: By day, Detective Blank is a cop on the trail of a vicious serial killer in the year 1949. But when she sleeps, Blank lives a different life—two hundred years in the future. Is Detective Blank next on the killer’s list? Her dreams may hold the key to the case, if only she can remember them in time. The danger mounts and the suspense builds
Writer: Scott Snyder Artist: Nick Dragotta DC Comics, October 2024 A hulking Batman, akin more to a ridiculous professional wrestler than the traditional gymnast’s physique,
Writer: Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel Art: Lee Sullivan Titan Comics, 2016-2017 Writer Ben Aaronovitch has for around a decade penned a series of novels
Text: Michele Bolton Illustrations: Bernardo Santiago Acosta Translated version (Italian to English): Frances Lincoln, 2024 This title – more a love letter than a biography
Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Valerio Giangiordano Dark Horse Comics, July 2024 Nemesis: Rogues’ Gallery picks up where Mr Millar’s title Big Game ends. The world’s
Creator: Sid Quade Funcertainty Box, 2024 Our favourite curmudgeon were-hyena/goat returns in Gridley #2. We very enjoyed much enjoyed the first issue of this title:
Writer: Ryan K Lindsay Art: Sami Kivela Mad Cave Studios, May 2024 A large deer is an investigative journalist in a large semi-rural town, dealing with
Writer: Tom King Art: Jeff Spokes DC Comics (Black Label imprint), October 2024 Tempus fugit. Twenty-four years ago, writer Warren Ellis observed the end of
Creator: Brian “Box” Brown First Second Books, 2023 This somewhat depressing title was published last year. Here is the promotional copy: Brian “Box” Brown brings
Created by Gardner Fox (writer) and Murphy Anderson (artist) DC Comics, October 1964 American superhero comic books have long had a history of adding sidekicks
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