Dark Horse Presents Ends Next Week

Next week brings Dark Horse Presents #33, the latest installment of one of the best-known and most-respected comic anthologies, and the last for a while. In 1986, the company launched with the first issue of the first Dark Horse Presents series, which ran until issue #157 in 2000. A second volume, with 80-page issues, began in 2011 and went for 36 issues, until spring 2014. (There was also a digital version on MySpace, also 36 issues, from 2007-2010.) This most [...]
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Spencer and Locke #1

Writer David Pepose’s high concept for Spencer and Locke is “what if Calvin and Hobbes grew up in Sin City“, and that’s pretty much all you need to know about the comic. Faux tough-guy narration comes from a jaded detective with anger issues who drags around a blue stuffed animal, a panther that he calls his partner Spencer and only he sees as a living, talking, full-size being. In a kid, it’s cute. In this comic, I’m just waiting until [...]
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Robotech #1 Coming in July

I’m not a Robotech fan — in our house, it was that thing my brother wanted to watch to keep me from seeing the classic sitcoms I preferred — but I can’t deny that it was the first, best-known anime most Americans were exposed to. Titan Comics, a leading publisher of adaptations and licensed comics, will be releasing a Robotech comic series later this summer that promises to use the classic characters. The first issue drops July 26, written by [...]
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Something’s Fishy

With this third book by Kevin McCloskey about everyday wildlife, publisher Toon Books has tagged the series “Giggle and Learn”. After We Dig Worms! and The Real Poop on Pigeons! comes Something’s Fishy. Since this is a Level 1 comic, aimed at grades K-1, the book is light on the kind of substantial, encyclopedic educational content adults expect, but if you like to look at fish, there are a whole bunch presented here, and in an entertaining way. There’s one [...]
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Tom of Finland Movie Screening at Tribeca Festival

I think of Tom of Finland as a comic artist, but that’s not really accurate. He’s best known for capturing lovingly detailed portraits of classic gay fetish imagery — the well-built biker in leather with a thick mustache, the bulging sailor, the hairy-chested construction worker — all in tight pants, strongly muscled and well-endowed. The movie publicity calls them “iconic homoerotic drawings”, and so they are. I think I associate him with comics because his art was often available, back [...]
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ReDistricted: Tales of Washington, DC

I just found out about ReDistricted, “an online comics anthology focused on lesser-known historical stories about Washington, D.C.” There are a variety of two-page stories, with new ones every two weeks. Find out who Walter Reed was, the guy the hospital is named after. Read about a women’s suffrage movement march in 1913. Discover how the cherry blossom trees were established. Learn about the effects of an earthquake on the National Cathedral. And many more. The site is edited by [...]
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Squirrel Girl and Friends Coming to TV

Freeform (formerly ABC Family) is planning a Cloak and Dagger TV show, due late next year, as a teen romance drama. Now, they’ve ordered their second Marvel-inspired series. New Warriors is planned as a half-hour comedy, with ten episodes in the first season, also due 2018. It’ll be about six young people learning to be heroes, termed “about-to-be Avengers”, and the only character mentioned so far is Squirrel Girl, a fan favorite. The show runner will be Kevin Biegel, who’s [...]
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The Next Nathan Hale Tackles World War II

I really love the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series of true-history graphic novels. I learn a lot about key historical moments, presented with plenty of humor. Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War spy (whose story is book #1), is the narrator, but Nathan Hale (a different one) is also the artist. Later this year comes the newest installment, the seventh. Raid of No Return tells “A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid”. This isn’t the first war to make [...]
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