Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Score with My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
| By Mark PetersJack Kirby and Stan Lee. The Hernandez Brothers. Wendy and Richard Pini. Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.
John Layman and Nick Pitarra Unleash Epic Kaiju Catastrophe in Leviathan
| By Jakob FreeA special kind of exasperation emerges from seeing fictional characters in do-or-die situations fail to understand the monsters they’re up against.
Aleš Kot and Tradd Moore Offer Hope in The New World’s Socio-Political Miasma
| By Chris KindredPolice wear body cams when they murder people. Immigration officers tear families asunder. Government officials swarm a trans-country border. Internet hordes decide the fate of the unjust. A nation is torn. The New World is a snapshot of our reality past its boiling point, then cranked to 11.
Bryan Hill and Jeff Spokes Reconstruct Aphrodite V
| By Vernon MilesAphrodite V may be science fiction, but writer Bryan Hill doesn’t consider himself a futurist.
Shannon Wheeler Takes Aim at Men-Children (and Himself) in Memoirs of a Very Stable Genius
| By Mark PetersCartoonist Shannon Wheeler—best known for his superhero-skewering Too Much Coffee Man and the recent Sh*t My President Says: The Illustrated Tweets of Donald J. Trump, which is exactly what it sounds like—is releasing his first Image Comics collection, Memoirs of a Very Stable Genius.
Following Chew, Rob Guillory Cultivates New Horrific Ground in Farmhand
A Bible verse from the New Testament famously warns “for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” In Rob Guillory’s new series Farmhand, that venerable adage takes on sinister, bloody implications.
Mirka Andolfo Brings Her Sex-Politics Parable Stateside in Unnatural
Mirka Andolfo has witnessed life imitate her art.
Joe Casey and Ulises Fariñas Riff off Classic ’90s Image in New Lieutenants of Metal
| By Jakob FreeThe inside front cover of a debut comic traditionally lists the names of the talent who labored to produce it. In New Lieutenants of Metal #1, that real estate pays respect to something entirely different: a heavy metal playlist and dedication to the founding members of Image Comics.
Why I Believe in Comic Readers, by Joe Kelly
They tried to destroy us once, you know. Almost got away with it, too.
Proxima Centauri: Farel Dalrymple Warps Teenage Alienation into a Stunning Sci-Fi Fantasy
Farel Dalrymple doesn’t create imagery that can be easily ignored.
Christopher Sebela & Joshua Hixson Tread Bloody Water in Shanghai Red
During the 19th century, Portland, Oregon invited waves of pioneers into its valley for work and commerce around the Columbia River and the nearby Pacific Ocean.
Jody LeHeup and Nathan Fox Give a Cataclysmic Forecast in The Weatherman
| By Vernon MilesNathan Bright isn't a weatherman in the traditional sense.
Anthony Del Col, Geoff Moore, and Jeff McComsey Chase the Prodigal Son of Hitler
| By Heather AyresVienna, 1908: the Academy of Fine Arts rejects Adolf Hitler for the second time, citing his “unfitness for painting.” This one fateful moment will alter not only the course of the future dictator’s life, but that of the globe, culminating in a devastating conflict that sent nations into the throes of a second world war.