Welcome to Comicosity’s Hot Five. Hot Five is a short list of the top books we think you’ll want to be checking out. Be they new title launches, key issues or just continuing stories from some of the industry’s most acclaimed books, this list is your guaranteed gold in the comic market! A-FORCE #1 Written…
Best of 2015: Series
The year is winding to a close, which got us to thinking…what were the best comics of the year? The Comicosity staff has gathered and submitted their top picks of 2015, today being Best Series: Alison Baker The Wicked + The Divine Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson Published by…
TRADE WAITING: Week of December 16, 2015
Greetings and Salutations my fellow TRADE WAITERS! It’s another Monday, which means another look at the week’s hottest trade paperbacks, collected editions, and graphic novels in this edition of “Trade Waiting” – your weekly spotlight of five noteworthy comic book collections that are being released this coming Wednesday and why you should watch out for…
BITCH PLANET #6 Storms Into Stores In January
Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and special guest artist Taki Soma (SINERGY, Rapture) will launch a special stand-alone issue in the ongoing bitingly satirical series BITCH PLANET this January. Previously in BITCH PLANET, a new crop of non-compliants settled in for their stay on the Auxiliary Compliance Outpost. When a small group…
We’re Here and We’re Queer: 35 Indie Titles Doing Right by LGBTA Fans
It’s been a very challenging week for LGBT comic fans. Without any visible LGBT leads for their All-New All-Different relaunch in the fall, Marvel Comics has given its queer fans a lot to think about. This concern crescendoed with the stone cold declaration that a character who had been identified as bisexual by previous writer…
GAME CHANGERS: Valentine De Landro on BITCH PLANET
Welcome to GAME CHANGERS, an interview series at Comicosity looking at female protagonists in comic books from the last decade or two (or more!) — and the original creators who brought them to life. Not satisfied with looking at the characterization of one or two women at a time, we thought it was time to…
THE HONOR ROLL: February 18, 2015 Releases
Half of the US is covered is snow, the other half is living in a spring time wonder land. In these times of uncertainty we have comics at least. We have great spoiler filled picks for you. Let’s get to it! BITCH PLANET #3 – Jessica Boyd Kelly Sue is going to have a reckoning…
Review: BITCH PLANET #3
BITCH PLANET #3 Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick Art by Robert Wilson IV Published by Image Comics Release Date: February 18, 2015 If Bitch Planet #1 and #2 were entries into showcasing the frightening world of the setting, issue #3 seems to show where the real heart of the comic is going to shine: the characters.…
Review: BITCH PLANET #2
BITCH PLANET #2 Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick Art by Valentine De Landro Published by Image Comics Release Date: January 28, 2015 In Kelly Sue’s second issue of Bitch Planet we get to zoom in a little further than the more broadly portrayed scene in the first book, and focus on a couple of characters…
Review: BITCH PLANET #1
BITCH PLANET #1 Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick Art by Valentine De Landro, Cris Peter, and Clayton Cowles Published by Image Comics Release Date: December 10, 2014 Bitch Planet hangs its overt message on the framework of a 1970s science-fiction exploitation genre story. The genre itself is not new to comics, nor is it’s…