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…
Review: TREES #4
TREES #4 Written by Warren Ellis Art by Jason Howard Published by Image Comics Release Date: August 20, 2014 Trees is a science fiction comic book series about an alien presence that landed on earth and has been standing in dominion of their locations for ten years like fabled, gigantic trees. This alone has informed…
Image Announces TREES #1 Available for Free
In anticipation of the frenzied mob of fans likely to storm comic book stores everywhere for issue #2 of the hit new series, Image Comics is pleased to announce that the digital edition of Warren Ellis (SUPREME: BLUE ROSE, Planetary) and Jason Howard’s TREES #1 will be available for free, across all platforms, starting today,…
MOM’S COVER WATCH: May 28, 2014
The subdued, the subliminal, and the sublime take the stage for the best covers for the week of May 28, 2014 in Mom’s Cover Watch. MIND MGMT #22 Written by Matt Kindt Art by Matt Kindt Published by Dark Horse Comics When René Magritte was 30, he painted a pipe, then wrote below in French, “This…
Review: TREES #1
TREES #1 Written by Warren Ellis Art by Jason Howard Published by Image Comics Release Date: May 28, 2014 Trees, the new Image series from Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, has received less advance publicity than one might expect for this particular publisher/creator combination. People are justified in comparing today’s Image with 90’s Vertigo, and…
HOT FIVE: Week of May 28, 2014
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 hot and tasty treats for the week in…
Interview: Jason Howard Discusses the Looming TREES
Mother Nature has been blooming for many this spring, including the trees. But what if the trees are the ominous signs of what is yet to come? Artist Jason Howard is tackling a new alien invasion story, with writer Warren Ellis, about these stoic beings in Trees. Here is the solicit from Image Comics: “Ten years…