WE HAVE COOL STICKERS NOW!
Did you hear we will be going to Comic Invasion Berlin this Saturday?
And we might have cool stickers.
Who am I kidding? These stickers are probably the best work I've ever done in my life.
When I die, please put these stickers on my grave, ok?
Ice Cream Dead-Man?
After the wonderful work last year with Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum, the superstar duo W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo are back at DC.
Maybe my favorite announcement of the year. One of those combinations that feels bound for perfection.
If you don’t know these dudes, they are known for the horror anthology Ice Cream Man.
Their work is high-end format exploration with clever humour and masterful paneling that mixes Golden Age aesthetics with Frank Quitely and Daniel Clowes.
This is all flowers meant to say: These guys are damn worth your money.
Kryptonite Spectrum was such a beautiful love letter to the character. And “love letters” are usually the go-to phrase for everything these days, but that one was full of joy and deep, genuinely clever insights into the character and his entire publication history.
Lone Girl and Cub
What if the ship carrying Kal-El and Kara to Earth malfunctioned and they suddenly found themselves alone in space?
That’s the gist of this miniseries by Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan.
This was extremely fun. The art gives Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon space adventure vibes.
If you’re a fan of Kara's interpretation in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, this follows the idea of Kara as the girl who has seen destruction.
Except this time she has no time to grieve. She has to fight to survive in a hostile environment with a floppy baby in her lap.
I was particularly keen on how horrifying everything feels from her perspective. She lived with a family yelling into empty ears about disasters. But when the disaster came, it didn’t even give THEM time for goodbyes.
Barbarella mixed with Ripley from Alien, mixed with our worst nightmares.
By the way, Sigourney Weaver was in Berlin this week for The Mandalorian premiere.
All the stars are aligning for you to pick up this book.
Also, did you know I wrote a whole article talking about everything Supergirl?
Go read it on Beyond The Panels.
Go read it on Beyond The Panels.
A little rec by Walt: CONCRETE: Stars Over Sand
Written by Walt
The thing I liked most about superhero stories was when they behave like regular humans. Staying human (and sane) in a world where magical superpowers are a reality is almost a superpower in itself.
Imagine the philosophical implications, if superpowers would really exist. So many things that we take for granted, beginning with the simple “all humans are created equal” just do not hold anymore. It’s gods cosplaying as normal people, fixing their problems, occasionally even failing, which seems quite ridiculous. Or saint-like. The reality would probably be much closer to Watchmen or The Boys. But this is why the dedication of gods to humanity is touching us in a special way. And this is at the center of Concrete.
It’s not easy to explain what Paul Chadwick’s Concrete is really about. A guy who is taken by aliens and whose brain is being transplanted into a stone body (which very much resembles Fantasic Four’s Thing) escapes, and with the help of his former boss (an US senator) he becomes something of a media star as a “cyborg” and tries to help people, but not as costume crimefighter, but more on a everyday scale, the best he can. He’s also just living his life, dealing with fame, falls in love and enjoys adventures like climbing the Mount Everest.
The book is a genre of its own. And I’ll be hones, the new series does not really try to be super inclusive for new readers. But it has a unique poetry and flow, and its curious charm is still irresistible. If you like Terry Moore’s comics or books like Resident Alien or Doom Patrol, or even, you know, Claremont’s X-Men at some point, where the weird and fantastic meets the mundane and slice-of-life, it’s worth checking out. It’s one of my all-time favs, and I even name-dropped it in the show I wrote for Audible
If I could just write superhero comics the way I want, it’d probably be something like Concrete (but, of course, not even 10% as good).
Ok. This was a easy one right?
I know. I know. I usually hit you with mountains of content, but I wanted to let you chill for once.
Relax. Check out everything on FOC!
Come to Berlin. Pick up some stickers.
Will Heiko like the stickers? I don’t know, but you can ask him that and any other question you have regarding, Manage Comics and single issues here. Pre-orders are open until Saturday at 4 p.m. (Krypton WILL die after that, so rush rush, Jor-El).
Byeee,
Math.
