Hell has always been an interesting literary topic, whether writing from a point of salvation or damnation. Although we can all say that it’s more fun when Hell gets shown, not as lakes of burning brimstone, but as a grimy city full of tedious bureaucracy and sarcastic demons. Hot Damn! is the newest entry in this he
I know that comic solicitations should be taken as gospel as much as a movie trailer selling you “the best movie of the decade, maybe even ever!” but the word around Silver Surfer’s big 50th anniversary was that it was going to be status-quo changing. In this case, there’s some truth to the marketing because the final moments of Silver Surfer #3 deliver a huge gut-punch.
I love smart, original horror. Books like The Haunting of Hill House. Movies like Hellraiser. Videogames like Fatal Frame. I love horror that goes beyond the undead, serial murderer slicing up teenagers and raises questions that aren’t inherently scary like repressed memories or sexual desire. It affects you more and stays with you for a lasting horror experience. So imagine my surprise that I’d yet to hear about Survivors’ Club, a comic series seven issues in that’s dark and twisted and definitely outside the box.
Poe Dameron #1 Marvel Comics Written by Charles Soule Art by Phil Noto Letters by VC’s Joe Caramagna Reviewed by Steven Ray Morris Poe
What’s happening in the new and improved Riverdale? Issue seven of Archie opens with a tense dinner in the Lodge household as Mr. Lodge fumes about Archie and Veronica fumes that he’s fuming at her Archiekins!
When the Blue Dragon dies, the Eastern sky is left unprotected and six stars fall out of the night sky. To stop the stars from falling into the malevolent Moon Rabbit’s hands, the Mighty Zodiac Warriors are ordered to gather the stars and restore the light, for without the stars, the darkness threatens to destroy their world.
The idea of a shark in the forest might sound vaguely familiar to you. Back in 2010 Ryan Ottley wrote SeaBear & GrizzlyShark, a comic about a bear in the sea and a shark in the forest. He’s back six years later with a standalone GrizzlyShark comic, while Jason Howard (Astounding Wolfman, Trees) is working on a standalone SeaBear comic.
