Faith #1

Like many customers excited by the concept of the title Faith, I love the idea of a large-sized fangirl getting her own comic. It’s a shame that the comic isn’t as exciting or enjoyable as I hoped, making love for it a matter of it existing at all, not what it brings to the page. In a more diverse market, this wouldn’t be the only superhero book starring a plus-size woman, making for more options. Unfortunately, this is a typical [...]
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Batman: Bad Blood

Batman: Bad Blood opens with action, as Batwoman (voiced by Yvonne Strahovski) is battling a gang that includes Firefly and Killer Moth. Unlike Batman (Jason O’Mara), she uses guns, which to the Dark Knight’s eyes makes her just like the villains they battle, so he wants her out of his city. Conveniently, she’s immediately captured by the bad guys. He rescues her but is presumed deceased in a following explosion. This isn’t a spoiler. This is the first five minutes [...]
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Justice League vs. Teen Titans Coming This Spring

The next original DC Universe animated movie has been announced as Justice League vs. Teen Titans, which “welcomes the Teen Titans to the ever-expanding canon of classic DC Comics characters”. As expected from a Titans project, the big bad is Trigon, who’s possessed the Justice League, causing them to fight the younger heroes. Here’s the official plot description: When Damian’s over-aggressive tendencies almost destroy a Justice League mission, he is sent to learn teamwork by training alongside the Teen Titans. [...]
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Cassius #2

I’m glad to see the alternate-history story of Cassius continuing, but I fear we’ve reached a point where my lack of knowledge of the time of Julius Caesar (either the play or the real history) is going to get in my way. There are enough characters and plotting that I would prefer to read such material in larger chunks — which any independent publisher hates to hear, because they can only produce smaller issues intermittently. The more people wait, the [...]
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Master Keaton Volume 2

I talked, in my review of the first volume, about how Master Keaton is an older series. I knew going in that there would be an air of “that was then” reading it. Yet it surprised me how many of the stories in this second volume were also looking backwards within their own texts. For example, the first story involves insurance investigator Keaton helping with the undercover sale of a medal from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The former owner’s widow [...]
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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma Volumes 9-10

The quarterfinal matches of the Fall Classic cooking competition continue and conclude in these volumes. The showdown began in volume 7 and extended into the previous book, where the contest between our hero Soma and the molecular gastronomist began; she presented her bento box there. Here, in Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma volume 9, we see Soma’s entry, a twist on a seaweed bento, using some of the fancy cooking science techniques. Although technologically advanced, Soma’s dish is focused on [...]
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Say I Love You Volume 9

It’s been a while since I’ve caught up with the mismatched couple, school prince Yamato and shy Mei, at the center of Say I Love You. I liked the emotions she expressed as she began to understand the value of friendship and feeling loved, but I wondered how the series could continue for this long (14 volumes in Japan, 11 so far here) with just them at the center. That’s a hint, since the series doesn’t stay focused on just [...]
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Get Back: Imagine… Saving John Lennon

Donovan Day explores a music fan’s biggest fantasy in Get Back: Imagine… Saving John Lennon. The teenage Lenny, named after John Lennon, is staying with his grandpa in New York City. He meets a beautiful girl named Yoko while busking in the subway. Then he discovers his iPod, loaded with a ton of classic rock songs, lets him time travel back to the time of the tune he’s listening to. As he and Yoko explore this ability, we find out [...]
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Friday Barnes, Girl Detective

Friday Barnes, Girl Detective by R.A. Spratt is an amusing blend of boarding school antics and mystery-solving. Friday, as the overlooked daughter of supersmart academics having to find her own way, reminded me a bit of Meg, from A Wrinkle in Time. Only instead of science fiction, this series is based in detection, starring a pint-size Sherlock. Friday “largely raised herself” and “found it was best to go unnoticed as much as possible.” She reads widely, including detective fiction, and [...]
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Diamond’s How to Draw Month Makes Books on Creating Comics Available

This month’s Diamond Previews catalog, used by comic shops and their customers to determine what to buy in the comic months, has the theme “How to Draw” to “pay tribute to the DIY spirit”. That means a number of publishers are reoffering books about making comics. Here are some I recommend you should be aware of, complete with this month’s ordering codes. The DC Comics Guides to Creating Comics — Writing (JAN16 1915), Pencilling (JAN16 1916), Inking (JAN16 1917), Coloring [...]
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The Baker Street Peculiars: Exclusive Preview

Coming out in March is a new miniseries written by the talented Roger Langridge (Abigail and the Snowman) that takes on a particular interest of mine: the world of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated by Andy Hirsch (Adventure Time), The Baker Street Peculiars has the premise that Holmes is a sham. (So not for those humorless Sherlockians!) He’s been written all this time by Mrs. Hudson, using the pen name of John Watson (because, of course, male writers are treated better — [...]
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Shuriken and Pleats Volume 1

The concept of Shuriken and Pleats — schoolgirl ninja — is short but interesting. Sadly, the execution is slow and obvious. Author Hino Matsuri is best known for the popular Vampire Knight series, which I don’t remember being this patchy in plotting. The young female ninja is Mikage, whose older master wants to adopt her and take her back to Japan with him. There, she plans to enroll in school, but she quickly finds herself protecting a younger man, part [...]
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Congratulations, NBM, on 40 Years!

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, independent and Eurocomix publisher NBM has unveiled a new logo, shown here. They’ve changed their name from “NBM Publishing” to “NBM Graphic Novels”, reflecting their speciality, and dissolved their ComicsLit imprint, moving the titles to the main brand. The adult graphic novel imprint, Eurotica, will remain independent and separate. From the press release, in which NBM Publisher and founder Terry Nantier discusses the changes, “After many milestones over these decades helping to open up the [...]
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Case Study of an Indy Comic: Mixtape Space Goat Reprints Cancelled

I’ve been covering Mixtape, the slice-of-life indy comic written by Brad Abraham with art by Gervasio and Jok, for four years now. The first issue came out in April 2012 from Ardden Entertainment. As I said then, It’s the story of a group of friends, about to be high school seniors, and the choices they make. … The title emphasizes how important music is to these kids. This is soap opera from the nostalgic perspective of the older and wiser, [...]
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The Imitation Game Comes to Print from Abrams ComicArts

A year and a half ago, Jim Ottaviani’s newest graphic novel was published online at Tor.com. It’s The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded, illustrated by Leland Purvis, and now it’s coming to print from Abrams ComicArts. The “historically accurate graphic novel biography” covers Turing’s work on cryptography and artificial intelligence and the struggles of his personal life. The full-color hardcover will be available March 23, 2016, at $24.95. It can be ordered now from your local comic shop with Diamond [...]
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You Are Not Owed Pre-Orders Because You’ve Been Around Before

Do most readers know who the Badger is? With help from Wikipedia and the GCD, I found out that the superhero was first published in 1983 by the short-lived Capital Comics company. Later, his series ran 66 issues from First Comics, ending in 1991, with revival attempts at Dark Horse (1994), Image (1997), and IDW (2007). This is a lot of publishers for a character I can tell you nothing about. According to the Wikipedia character bio, Norbert Sykes was [...]
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Kurt Busiek on Loss of Public Domain

A new year means another article on what famous works of art (and other discoveries) should have entered the public domain but haven’t, due to continuing legal extensions of copyright law. If the law in existence at the time of their creation had been maintained, this year, works from 1959 would now be available for others to reference, reuse, and remix, including North by Northwest, Starship Troopers, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and many, many more. Instead, Under current copyright law, we’ll [...]
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Different Ugliness Different Madness

Different Ugliness Different Madness is the latest release from Humanoids, a graphic novel by Marc Males that promises an intriguing period setting but disappoints with expected patterns of plot. I loved the idea of a story set among radio in the 1930s, but ultimately, little was done with that, since a major part of the premise is that one of the characters has felt a need to escape from that world. We’re told at the beginning that Lloyd Goodman, a [...]
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Maris Wicks Webcomic Your Wild City

I very much enjoyed reading Maris Wicks’ Human Body Theater last fall. She’s skilled at true-life comics; she also illustrated Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. I was glad to see, then, that she draws a webcomic, Your Wild City. Written by Rosemary Mosco and updated weekly, the educational comics are about urban nature. Here are a couple of favorites: Your Wild City: Tthunderstorms Your Wild City: Resolutions (excerpt)
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More on New Projects From Larson, Telgemeier

Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time, Mercury) will be writing a new comic called Goldie Vance. Brittney Williams (who drew the Hellcat relaunch for Marvel) will illustrate the story, about a 16-year-old in the 1960s who wants to become the full-time in-house detective at her father’s Florida resort hotel. Goldie Vance will launch from Boom! in April as a four-issue miniseries. From the interview linked above, it’s clear that this was an editorially-driven project, with Williams and Larson recruited to [...]
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Coming Spring From Toon Books

Toon Books, publisher of elegant hardcover comics for early readers, has announced their five titles coming this spring. The first three are Level 1, which means they’re aimed at kindergarten through first grade readers. The title links go to the publisher’s website, which has preview pages for each. Kevin McCloskey follows up his amusing and educational We Dig Worms! with The Real Poop on Pigeons. It will be out April 19. Just who’s cooing outside? Did you know pigeons can [...]
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Meditations on Dying Media

A few links I found to be thought-provoking reads: First up, how newspapers have cannibalized their own sales. Like magazines before them, single-copy sales have practically disappeared as publishers raise prices drastically in order to combat declining readership. But that’s a stupid idea, because you drive existing customers away and you prevent new ones from easily trying your product. Publishers have applied the same pricing theory to both home delivery and single-copy selling over the last four years or so: [...]
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Octopus Pie Returns to Print in “Definitive Collection” From Image

Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie is an excellent case study of the different options over the years for publishing webcomics as the industry (and audience) has changed. There were some early self-published editions, then There Are No Stars in Brooklyn came out from Villard, an imprint of Random House, in 2010. Big book publishers were eager to get in on the graphic novel boom during a time when more traditional lines were struggling, and comics showed huge growth potential. Only the [...]
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A Look at 2015 With Advice for Freelancers

Melanie Gillman (As the Crow Flies) has posted a terrific rundown of 2015 in comic form, arranged by lessons learned in a first year of full-time freelancing. These are the two that resonated most with me.
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An Akiko Flashback

Akiko, the charming SF adventure comic series by Mark Crilley, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the end of last year. I loved this comic! (I have a piece in issue #50 saying so.) It was published by Sirius Entertainment, which also put out Artesia, Joseph Michael Linsner’s Dawn, Poison Elves, and the Scary Godmother comics, but no longer appears to exist. Akiko was the story of a girl’s journey through space with an alien, a robot, a scuzzy rogue, and [...]
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