Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Square by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder is a time-traveling comic series where a girl must travel back to 1986 NYC to save the future from an evil corporation (available July 22, 2014). Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder present us with a neat new twist on time-travel: a teenage cop…
The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Sonny Liew is a revived comic series adapted from a 1940s series about the Green Turtle, the first Asian American superhero (available July 14, 2014). In 1944, an obscure comic book artist named Chu Hing was asked to write and draw an Asian-based cartoon feature…
The Occultist Volume 2: At Death's Door by Tim Seeley is a comic series centered on a young man who wields The Sword, an ancient book of spells that binds itself to him (available July 8, 2014). The second story arc of the on-going series, The Occultist, veers away from the criminal mayhem of the…
The Victories Volume 3: Posthuman by Michael Avon Oeming is a comic series where superheroes have been locked up in internment camps, unable to save the world (available June 24, 2014). Michael Avon Oeming’s The Victories is taking a page out of the A Game Of Thrones playbook, and I don’t know how I feel…
Protectors Inc. Volume 1 by J. Michael Straczynski, Gordon Purcell, and Michael Atiyeh is a superhero comic series where superheroes are rented out to the highest bidder (available June 17, 2014). In this superhero comic title from one of the masters of the field, superpowers first manifested in the skies over 1944 Normandy, changing forever…
The Adventures of Apocalypse Al by J. Michael Straczynski, Sid Kotian, and Bill Farmer is a comic noir series laced with comedy about a woman tasked with preventing the end of the world (available June 10, 2014). I love noir and have a soft spot, if it doesn’t seem too much of a contradiction, for…
Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks by Jamie S. Rich and Dan Christensen is the debut comic series about a successful stage performer who learns more than he expected to after taking on a wealthy client (available June 11, 2014). In this decidedly noir take on the life of a stage hypnotist, Archer Coe,…
Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by P. Craig Russell is a graphic novel adapted from Gaiman's short story by the same name about the very first murder ever. Can I tell you a secret? A guilty secret, if you will, given the kinds of books I like to read, foremost among them being…
Mind MGMT Volume 3: The Home Maker by Matt Kindt continues the espionage comic series about a secret government psychic spy program (available June 3, 2014). Meru and Bill have been reunited in the latest collection of Mind MGMT comics, as they run from both Henry Lyme and The Eraser. Unwilling to be caught up…
Sidekick by J. Michael Straczynski and Tom Madrake is a gritty, blunt comic book portrayal of a superhero sidekick who struggles to succeed on his own after his partner is killed (available May 13, 2014). Sidekicks have been a staple of the crime genre since Dr. John Watson first started chronicling the adventures of his…
