five weapons

 
Comics as we know it is wide and fractured. There's Direct Market comics, bookstore comics, webcomics, indie comics, manga, Eurocomics, and several more subcultures. I'm curious about what working under the broad umbrella of "comics" is like for creators, publishers, critics, academics, a…

Good news for a comic we're fans of at ComicsAlliance: Five Weapons, the Image Comics miniseries written, drawn, and lettered by Jimmie Robinson, is set to become an ongoing. The news was revealed at the end of issue #5, and confirmed by Robinson via Twitter.

On sale this week from Image Comics is the second issue of Jimmie Robinson's Five Weapons, a cleverly written and slickly illustrated original miniseries that we're big fans of around here. Set at an exclusive boarding school for preparing young minds and bodies for careers in the field of professio…

The short version: Jimmie Robinson's Five Weapons is a textbook example of how to create a first issue that leaves readers wanting more as soon as possible. Robinson introduces the main character, uses his unfamiliarity with the setting as an excuse to drop a lot of information on us, gives us brief…