Best Comics of 2022 (So Far): Image Comics
Check out eight picks for the Best Comics of 2022 — Image Comics as well as the best graphic novels and trade collections from the publisher so far this year.
Read MoreWhen does Saga Volume 10 come out?
Image Comics has now made the release date for the next Saga trade official…
Read MoreThe Best Graphic Novels of 2021
The Best Graphic Novels of 2021 is a strong and varied list, featuring books from a wide range of publishers, including Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, First Second, DC Comics, and more.
Read MoreWhy Saga #54 Hurts so Bad
In preparation of Saga #55 (finally) dropping next week, today I’m reposting this piece I wrote the morning of July 31, 2018…the last time a new issue of Saga dropped. Beware of spoilers!
Read MoreComics Anatomy - Creator Perspective: Where It Happens in THAT TEXAS BLOOD
By Chris Condon — Pull up a review of That Texas Blood. Go all the way back to number one, if you’d like. Maybe even our first review from The Nerdist. No, really. Do it. I’ll wait…
Read MoreREVIEW: Sex Criminals #69...after the climax
The (excellently) renumbered Sex Criminals #69 provides an epilogue for 32-issues of singular and very personal comics storytelling…our review of the series finale.
Read MoreWhen Is Saga Coming Back: Not In 2020
With the release of Image Comics recent December 2020 solicitations — which are a rundown of everything the publisher plans to release — we learned Saga is not coming back this year.
Read MoreBest Graphic Novels of 2020 (So Far)
This marks the halfway point for a very difficult year, but the good news is that there have still been plenty of excellent graphic novels — and here we run through some of our favorites (so far!).
Read MoreBest Comics on ComiXology Unlimited
Our latest list is a Best Comics on ComiXology Unlimited, built specifically for folks stuck at home in quarantine but viable to anyone who wants to read some great graphic sequential storytelling digitally.
Read MoreBest Image Comics of 2020 (So Far)
It may be early in the year, yet within this post we do our absolute best to run down the Best Comics of 2020 (Image Comics edition) so far. We’ll find out soon how these picks held up!
Read MoreCOMIC OF THE WEEK: Dead Eyes #3 is a book about crime that also has a big heart
By d. emerson eddy — In 2018, Image Comics had launched a new crime thriller about a thief who just up and disappeared one day, after supposedly making a big score. That book was called Dead Rabbit, and it was unfortunately cancelled due to problems with the trademark. Thankfully, it was tweaked and renamed, and for the past few months we've seen it returned as Dead Eyes. The first two issues are already on the stands, reprinting a slightly modified version of the first two installments of the first book. Here in Dead Eyes #3 is where the brand new material hits and, man, it was worth the wait.
Read MoreREVIEW: Olympia #1 is a stunning debut comic for readers who love comics
By Zack Quaintance — Olympia #1 is a comic for people who loves comics, who love the medium, love the history, and love the grandeur of the characters, concepts, and ideas it has kept alive for so many years. The first of five, this introductory chapter follows a protagonist named Elon, who is a latchkey kid that finds company and escape in comics. His adventure starts when, to borrow a turn of phrase from the preview text, “his favorite superhero, Olympian, comes crashing off the page and into reality.”
Read MoreREVIEW: Family Tree #1 speaks to many of Jeff Lemire’s long-time storytelling interests
By Zack Quaintance — Family Tree is the best type of genre-bending comic, in that it doesn’t feel like it’s setting out to be a genre-bending comic. And look, I know that sounds goofy, but I really couldn’t get to a better way of phrasing it. This is a comic that has family drama, body horror, and a foreshadowed apocalypse. There’s a lot going on within the 20-some pages of this debut issue, and yet it doesn’t feel at all like the creators felt obligated to include any of the places this story goes for marketability or shock value or standing out, or whatever other reason contrived narrative bits find end up in comics.
Read MoreComic of the Week: Nomen Omen #1 is delivers something unique and challenging
By d. emerson eddy — We're living in a time where there is a veritable embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice and quality for comics. If you don't particularly like superheroes, that's all right, because there's a huge selection out there. Publishers like Image, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Vault, IDW, Valiant, and more have you covered. Aside from arguably westerns and romance, you're not for want of reading material, high quality reading material, in just about any genre (including superheroes). So, on that landscape, it always surprises me when something raises itself above, strives to do something different, and delivers something unique, something challenging, from seemingly out of nowhere. Nomen Omen #1 is one of those books.
Read MoreREVIEW: Coffin Bound #2 continues making good on this book’s nihilistic promises
By Zack Quaintance — In its (pretty stellar) debut issue, Coffin Bound from writer Dan Watters and artist Dani (with colors by Brad Simpson and letters by Aditya Bidikar) made readers a few promises.
Read MoreREVIEW: The Walking Dead #193 ends with a sweet surprise (SPOILERS!)
By Zack Quaintance — I’m still processing what The Walking Dead did today and why. Now, normally when I say this, it has to do with a much-loved long-standing character having something grisly and horrible happen to them. That’s certainly not the case here. What happened in The Walking Dead #193 is that the story ended, and it ended with little warning on fanfare.
Read MoreREVIEW: Monstress #22 continues this book’s best arc yet
By Zack Quaintance — Check out some of these quotes without context that I took from Monstress #22: Calm yourself, short-lived being. .... There was a war. There is always a war. War is the deadliest child of the living… …As the poets say, victory is a pair of twins named boldness and caution. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point—I doubt I will soon read a comic with better writing than this one. Marjorie Liu is one of the industry’s best, from her long-form plotting to how she uses simple turns of phrase like those above.
Read MoreREVIEW: Gideon Falls #13 continues to shift this series’ central mystery
By Jarred A. Luján — Gideon Falls is back this week, once again thrusting readers into the most insane mystery happening in all of modern comics. This is a series wherein almost every single issues has left its audience with bigger questions than it went in with. Gideon Falls #13 is no different….
Read MoreREVIEW: Little Bird #3 continues to establish this series as something special
By Zack Quaintance — Little Bird #1 was, simply put, one hell of a comic. You can read more about it in my Little Bird #1 review (obviously), but for our purposes today I’ll just note the book grabbed readers with its striking and imaginative aesthetic, before plunging them into one of the most searing sci-fi dystopian plotlines I’ve yet to see in a comic. It felt urgent, like its creators had something important they needed to say and they needed to say it right now. Oh, and—SPOILER ALERT—the titular Little Bird gets shot through…
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