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Archaia Reveals Karl Kerschl Variant Cover For ‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants’ #1 [NYCC 2016]
Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Giants #1, announced this week by Archaia, is the latest miniseries in the Storyteller series offering beautiful new takes on folktales from around the world. Previous installments focused on dragons and witches; now they're getting big. ComicsAlliance has a first look at Karl Kerschl's stunning variant cover for issue #1, above.
Uneasy Arrangements For Swamp Thing And Constantine In ‘The Hellblazer’ #2 [Exclusive Preview]
It's like the late '80s all over again: John Constantine and Swamp Thing are lurking in the dark corner of the DC Universe, rather than a walled-off Vertigo, and the two of them are all wrapped up in each other's lives. That's where we find ourselves in The Hellblazer #2, written by Simon Oliver with art by Moritat.
Joining The Band: Meredith McClaren Brings A New Style To ‘Jem And The Holograms’ [Interview]
Jem and the Holograms, the popular comic based on the 1980s cartoon about rock stars, romance, and rivalry, has been closely associated with the art of Sophie Campbell since she and writer Kelly Thompson first launched the book. However, Campbell left the book a couple of issues back to pursue other projects, and this week sees the debut of the new ongoing Jem artist, Meredith McClaren, bringing her own distinctive style to the Holograms' world.
ComicsAlliance chatted with McClaren about her history with the series, how her work differs from Campbell's, and the best possible pet for Jem.
Costume Drama: The Enduring Simplicity Of The Black Panther Suit
Welcome to Costume Drama, a new feature where we turn a critical eye toward superhero outfits and evaluate both the aesthetics and the social issues that often underlie them. For this first installment we're looking at a costume created by Jack Kirby, and still in use with only minor tweaks today: T'Challa's Black Panther suit.
Cast Party: Who Should Star In A ‘Goldie Vance’ Movie?
This week we're dream-casting a movie based on a really great all-ages comic that just started its second arc at Boom Studios, Goldie Vance by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams. It's teen detective story centered on the title character, whose father manages a resort hotel in Florida, in a world that looks a lot like the early 1960s.
Tragically Hip Frontman Gord Downie Teams With Jeff Lemire For ‘Secret Path’
Gord Downie, lead singer of the legendary Canadian band the Tragically Hip, is teaming up with comics writer/artist Jeff Lemire, of Sweet Tooth, Extraordinary X-Men, and much more besides, for a comic that will accompany Downie's next solo album.
Secret Path tells the true, tragic story of Chanie Wenjack, an indigenous 12-year-old boy who died in 1966 while attempting to walk home to his family from the residential school he had been forcibly removed to.
Marguerite Bennett Re-Teams with Varga Tomi For ‘Ghastly Tales’ [Preview]
Wildly popular writer Marguerite Bennett, known for Insexts, DC Comics Bombshells, Animosity, and more, has a horror anthology one shot coming out tomorrow from A Wave Blue World. Ghastly Tales features three stories by Bennett and artist Varga Tomi.
The Apocalypse Has Gone To The Dogs In ‘Legend’ #4 [Preview]
In Legend #4, a group of dogs and cats come upon a human in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but things don't go as you'd expect. At least not if you haven't been reading this comic.
Samuel Sattin and Chris Koehler's Legend offers a very different take on an apocalypse story, in which our former pets the ones fighting for the future, and that makes it stand out from the pack. Check out a preview!
Cast Party: Who Should Play DC Comics’ Legion of Doom?
This week I'm doing something a little different. With the DC movie universe expanding, all the talk about Suicide Squad, and the recent announcement that Black Manta will be in the Aquaman movie, I've been thinking about the future of DC supervillains on screen.
We've also been doing this fun DC Supervillain Draft, and that's got me thinking in particular about the Legion of Doom, who originated in the Challenge of the Superfriends cartoon, and what an interesting collection of classic DC villains they are. So I decided to cast the Legion of Doom.
Diving Into The Canvas: W. Maxwell Prince And Martin Morazzo On ‘The Electric Sublime’
Art crime strikes in The Electric Sublime, a new comic due out this fall from writer W. Maxwell Prince, artist Martín Morazzo, and colorist Mat Lopes. At the center of the story are Margot Breslin, head of the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, and Arthur Brut, a mentally unstable consultant who interacts with art in ways nobody else can. Together they're investigating an escalating series of events involving famous works of art inexplicably changing, and people reacting even more inexplicably.
We talked to Prince and Morazzo about art, mental illness, and what we can expect from The Electric Sublime.