New Releases

Welcome to another Wednesday Thursday! We're rocking the New Releases and Recommendations post in a new fashion today. Indies vs. Superheroes! Greg McElhatton vs. Kevin Panetta! The Fight o' the Century! In this corner! Representing indie comics...

If you read the comic books, you know what happens on the Wednesday. Bow down before the power of the Wednesday! COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE #1Soooo.... we're already counting down to FINAL CRISIS with COUNTDOWN, but now we have to count down to adventure as well...

Press Release Come to The Hero Initiative's booth #645 to see Ty Templeton, John Romita Sr. and John Romita Jr., Michael Golden and C.B. Cebulski and a whole lot more! Not only does The Hero Initiative have stellar booth talent, but Frank Quitely will be donating an art piece, which will be raffled off via silent auction and it is the only way to get a piece of his artwork at Fan Expo ... Read Mor

It's Wednesday and that means time for new comics. This week it's the bat, the chief and the Whedon that come out on top. BATMAN #668 Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III return with the second part to what might have been the best first part of the year...

Ever wonder how the comics medium could translate the crackling excitement and dramatic tension of the TV series 24 in the world of comics? Rather than trying to duplicate the series on the page, a publisher might be better off creating his own "Jack Bauer...

Well, we're in week two of another five-Wednesday month which means that this month's releases are stretched a bit thin to account for the extra Wednesday. This amounts to just a couple of new books for me to recommend unreservedly this week, but there are a slew of new books on the racks, so your mileage may (happily) vary...

For folks who have long lamented former indy publisher and cartoonist extraordinaire Steve Bissette's escape from the mainstream comics industry for other ventures -- among them teaching art students at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt ...

Welcome to America, a country so desensitized that anal sex is too mainstream to be considered a fetish, and where Macroherpetophilia (love of large lizards, namely Godzilla) flourishes. Welcome to America, a country so morally decrepit and corrupt that rich Texas oil families with political aspirations are left to their own devices (namely hunting dolphins and seals and snorting large amounts of

Can't find that Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Slurpee cup at a friendly, neighborhood 7-Eleven near you? Despite last weekend's box office numbers, the Fantastic Four sequel is merely yesterday's news, compared to last week's debuts of Die Hard 4, Ratatouille and Transformers... Read More ...

I haven't liked much of Douglas Wolk's work in the past, a pop culture "vulture" writing about many things including comics. Generally, his work has been OK and worth the effort to read on occasion, but a little pedestrian for the average Mr ...