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New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – February 19 2025

February 15, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

The Power Fantasy (2024) #6, an Image Comics February 19 2025 new releaseNext week is the 8th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics February 19 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics February 12 2025 new releases.

This week in Image Comics: Power Fantasy returns, W0rldtr33 origins, slow Spawn collections, Busiek & Nicieza’s Free Agents, criminal bees, the bowling vigilante, Joes vs. Cobra for Energon secrets, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: I’m so excited for The Power Fantasy (2024) #6 to return for it’s second arc! This Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, & Clayton Cowles comic is truly my ideal indie book, and it was in my Top 5 of 2024. Read more about why I love it so much in my full write-up, below.

This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on February 19 2025, plus collected editions. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and comment on every series with a new issue out this week to help you figure out if they’re for you.

Plus, for some long-running series, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Indie Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Image Comics February 19 2025 new releases!

[Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – February 19 2025

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles, Cliff Rathburn, Ed Brubaker, Energon Universe, Fabian Nicieza, GI Joe, Image Comics New Releases, James Tynion, Joshua Williamson, Kieron Gillen, Kurt Busiek, Massive-Verse, New Releases, Rick Remender, Sean Phillips, Spawn, Spawn Universe, Todd McFarlane

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – January 29 2025

January 25, 2025 by krisis Leave a Comment

Dust to Dust (2024) #2, an Image Comics January 29 2025 new releaseNext week is the 5th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics January 29 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics January 22 2025 new releases.

This week in Image Comics: The collected Power Fantasy, an unflinching view of the Dust Bowl, Black Cloak wraps a second arc, Blood Squad Seven faces their signature foes, Violator chats with Lucifer, Twitch gets framed by a dead man, teen angels vs horny devils, and more!

These posts will give me a chance to re-orient myself to what’s going on with Image after a few years away from reading any of their books!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: I am trembling with anticipation for Dust to Dust (2024) #2 after reading the utterly perfect first issue of this historical fiction comic from J. G. Jones, Phil Bram, & Jackie Marzan. Every page was gorgeously-rendered and perfectly scripted. This is absolutely the kind of comic that explains why I try to read everything – even books that sound sound like they’re not for me. More on why I loved this so much below.

This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week, plus collected editions. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and comment on every series with a new issue out this week to help you figure out if they’re for you.

Plus, for some long-running series, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Indie Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Image Comics January 29 2025 new releases!

[Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – January 29 2025

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles, Geoff Johns, Ghost Machine, Image Comics New Releases, J. G. Jones, Jackie Marzan, James Tynion, Joe Casey, Kelly Thompson, Kieron Gillen, Marc Andreyko, New Releases, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter Tomasi, Phil Bram, Rick Remender, Sam & Twitch, Spawn Universe, Tim Seeley, Todd McFarlane, Tony Fleecs, Violator, Youngblood

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: DC Comics – January 1 2025

December 27, 2024 by krisis Leave a Comment

You didn’t think I’d leave out DC, did you? Next week is the 1st new comic book day of the new year, and that means I’m back to cover DC’s new releases! This post covers DC Comics January 1 2025 releases.

This week in DC Comics: The Amalgam Age in Omnibus, Ram V’s Gotham Intermezzo, Aaron’s Absolute Krypton origin, DC’s Atomic trio makes a comeback, Ivy takes Seattle, Shazam family fun, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: Absolute Superman (2024) #3! This book is so good I am giddy every time I see one of its pages. Check out my write-up below on why I am so overwhelmingly positive on a Jason Aaron comic (not a common occurence in these parts).

This post includes every comic out from DC this week, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every in-continuity series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for most new releases, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to DC Comics to find out how to collect that title in full! There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto DC Comics January 1 2025 new releases!

DC Comics January 1 2025 Collected EditionsDC vs. Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus, released by DC Comics January 1 2025

52 Book 2 [2024 Edition]
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1779527622 / digital)
See Guide to DC Universe Events – Trinity, 52, & One Year Later. This collects the back half of DC’s weekly anthology title launched in the wake of Infinite Crisis. This features a lot of stories from many creators and different characters in several different plot threads. Note that it does not collect the “World War III” mini-event that ran alongside the end of this series.

DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1779523266)
See Guide to DC Elseworlds – The Amalgam Age of Comics. We never thought we’d see these comics collected again, let alone in a single deluxe edition! This tome collects the entire Amalgam Age in one place – every single issue of this 1996-1997 inter-company mash-up crossover. This isn’t a book that will often (or ever) be reprinted, so you should get it now if you’re interested!

Detective Comics [by Ram V] Vol. 4: Gotham Nocturne Intermezzo – Batman, Outlaw
(2024 hardcover, ISBN 978-1779528568 / 2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1779529459 / digital)
See Guide to Detective Comics (Post-Crisis). I was struggling slightly with Ram V’s run on Detective Comics as he closed out Act II. It didn’t feel like it was going anywhere. But, this tight act-break arc cured that!

Catwoman and Gordon engineering a breakout is the kind of great Bat-Family stuff that we should be getting in ‘Tec. It’s just nice to see some of the Bat-Family doing something kinetic, even if it flattens some of the business from the first two acts into a more generic “let’s save Gotham” plot. Orgham business into a typical “save Gotham” plot.

Actually, it felt like by getting Batman out of Gotham and widening the focus to his supporting cast, this run finally became what it has always meant to be. Also, based on the credits this includes the back-up stories by Dan Watters, which were outstanding!

Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics January 1 2025 single issue releases! [Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: DC Comics – January 1 2025

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: 52, Absolute Superman, Adriano Lucas, Amalgam Age, Arif Prianto, Batgirl, Batman, Becca Carey, Big Barda, Birds of Prey, Captain Atom, Cassandra Cain, Chip Zdarsky, Christian Ward, Clayton Cowles, Creature Commandos, David Dastmalchian, DC Absolute Universe, DC Comics New Releases, Detective Comics, Diego Olortegui, Harley Quinn, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Jason Aaron, Jeff Lemire, Josie Campbell, JSA, Kelly Thompson, Lady Shiva, Marcio Takara, New Releases, Poison Ivy, Rafa Sandoval, Ram V, Rodney Barnes, Sam Basri, Shazam, Takeshi Miyazawa, Tate Brombal, The Atom, Two-Face, Ulises Arreola, Willow Wilson

Review: Wolf, Vol. 1 – Blood and magic, by Kot, Taylor, Loughridge, Cowles, & Muller

June 1, 2016 by krisis

I’m an increasing supporter of the idea of True Fans as Subscribed Patrons, a mass of individuals who band together to sponsor the work of an artist they trust rather than simply buying it after the fact.

That’s not only because of services like Kickstarter and Patreon taking root, but because it reflects how I actually consume art. Once I’ve decided your work speaks to me, I want it all. Don’t make me keep an eye on release calendars. Don’t let a middleman get a share of my dollar. Take my money whenever you’re feeling the artistic feels and I’ll gladly accept what you deliver as often as you’d like to deliver it.

The beauty (and, let it be said, gratification) of that concept has a single point of failure: editing. Artists who are free to deliver directly to their benefactors run the risk of no longer performing the “Will it float on its own?” evaluation of their artwork. That could lead to unbidden creativity, it could result in fan-pandering, or we could wind up with some half-baked dreck.

Which brings me to author Ales Kot. This is a guy whose brain I’d love to be permanently jacked into based on what I’ve read from him so far. Even if there have been a few duds along the way, the hits are very big hits with me. I’ve exchanged niceties with him on Twitter here and there and a huge part of me simply wants to say, “Look, would you like my $100-a-year up front, because I’m doubtlessly going to buy every damn thing you do.”

He’s doing the utter opposite of that – publishing his creator-owned work through Image, where there is little in the way of advances or guaranteed sales. Every issue he releases is in pure sink or swim mode; every new project must find its own fans until he has an army of auto-buyers like me.

Right now he’s swinging for the fences on every release. I get the impression he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Wolf, Vol. 1 – Blood and magic. 4 stars Amazon Logo

wolf-vol01-tpbCollects Wolf #1-4. Written by Ales Kot with art by Matt Taylor, color art by Lee Loughridge, lettering by Clayton Cowles, and design by Tom Muller.

#140char review: Wolf, v1: pure comics magic. @ales_kot knows the perfect amount of things not to say on the page. I re-read it one second after finishing.

CK Says: Buy it!

Wolf is a powerful work of low fantasy, casting supernatural elements like vampires, ghostly winds, and a tentacle-faced man alongside the stars on Mulholland Drive and the streetwalkers on La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles. Kot and his collaborators have conjured a bit of true magic with this ouroboros of a tale that forced me to pick it up for a re-read just seconds after I finished.

The book opens with a gut-punch image of a man on fire. Not a superhero or an immolator, but a burning man on a stroll rendered all in reds and oranges. This is Antoine Wolfe, an immortal weary of life who’d prefer not to be set on fire as much as he’d like to stay out of both spooky plots and police investigations – and, especially anything that synchronizes all of those things together.

This is not his story and we’re left in relative darkness about his history and the exact nature of his powers. All we know is that he’s the kind of death-proof, magical guy you hire to look into things that require looking into in a Los Angeles that borders directly on Hell. (Kot is vague on whether that’s figurative, literal, or both.) He’s also a magnet for supernatural trouble, whether that’s his half-Lovecraftian buddy who is late on rent or a strangely-calm teenager in the midst of a murder investigation with an X-Files sort of twist. [Read more…] about Review: Wolf, Vol. 1 – Blood and magic, by Kot, Taylor, Loughridge, Cowles, & Muller

Filed Under: comic books, reviews, Year 16 Tagged With: Ales Kot, Clayton Cowles, Cthulhu, Image, Lee Loughridge, Magic, Matt Taylor, Tom Muller, vampires, Wolf

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