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“RUNNING SCARED” finale! Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne. Legendary enemies separated by centuries pulled through time itself to battle again and again. Until now. For one year The Flash has been building to this single epic moment: the ultimate showdown between The Flash and Reverse-Flash! |
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“RUNNING SCARED” part two! Barry Allen and Iris West witness a chilling vision of the future courtesy of the Reverse-Flash, who reveals the couple’s legendary romance will yield only darkness for the world of tomorrow. Now, Thawne forces The Flash to make a choice: spend forever alone or doom the future? |
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“RUNNING SCARED” part one! When Eobard Thawne murdered Barry Allen’s mother, he killed a piece of The Flash’s past. Now, Reverse-Flash is back to kill Barry’s future! The Flash's biggest storyline yet begins as he is pushed to his limits and his secrets are laid bare in a chase through time itself! Don't miss the extra-sized anniversary issue! |
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#1 New York Times Best Seller! Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics—The New 52! After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. Could the Court of Owls, once thought to be nothing more than an urban legend, be behind the crime and corruption? Or is Bruce Wayne losing his grip on sanity and falling prey to the pressures of his war on crime? |
By: J.P. Perumba de Puthenveetil
Some of my favorite things in the world are indie comic book series. I love how they so easily step outside or norms and continuously push ideas we never thought possible. My favorite of all the series that I have ever read has to be Saga.
If you have never heard of Saga, the best way I can explain it is, well, picture Romeo and Juliet in space, but they are both badass war criminals, and there are also bounty hunters and a cat who can tell if you are lying, and also a prince that has an 90s desktop PC as its head, and other stuff. I guess there is really no easy way to explain what the heck is going on in this series, but whatever it is, it’s fantastic.
Just the art itself is so wonderful; it’s this type of design that makes everything feel so tasteful. There is actual some pretty graphic stuff in Saga but because of the beautiful art style, it never feels overwhelming. And the art coincides well with another thing that I love about Saga, which is that it has very diverse range of genre. I could never at any moment pinpoint to you whether this was a tale of romance, comedy, action, drama, or horror. The art acts as a sort of mechanism to ease the transitions between all these genres to make it all remain under one roof.
It stimulates your mind like no other comic book I have ever read has. You care for and hate every single character. There is no one way to look at it. I read it and I am amazed on some many different fronts and I am consumed with wonder.
I’ll just end all of this by saying, and I can’t stress this enough, there is a very cute baby that narrates the entire series. Saga really does have everything.
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A new edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom or personal freedom, and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. |
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New York Times Bestseller A graphic novel of war and its aftermath. A powerful, compulsively page-turning, vivid, and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that missing something in his life but comes to find out that it's not quite what he expected. Abe gets more than he bargained for when his journey takes him to the middle east in war-torn Iraq. This is a story about a Marine, written and illustrated by a Marine, and is the first graphic novel about the war in Iraq from a veteran. The White Donkey explores the experience of being a Marine, as well as the challenges that veterans face upon their return home, and its raw power will leave you in awe. |
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Aang and Katara are working tirelessly for peace when an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei over Fire Nation colonies within the borders of the Earth Nation threatens to plunge the world back into war! Meanwhile, Sokka must help Toph prepare her hapless first class of metalbending students to defend their school against a rival class of firebenders! * Written by Eisner winner and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang ( American Born Chinese ). |
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Introducing a brand new series of Action Bible graphic novels featuring vivid new artwork from Sergio Cariello. Even as God walked through the beauty of His new creation, and breathed life into Adam, His masterpiece ... a warrior-angel gives into his pride—and commits the ultimate betrayal. Witness Adam and Eve falling into Lucifer's trap, as the battle for eternity begins in this brilliantly presented retelling of Creation, the Fall, and God's promise of redemption. |
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Avatar Aang asks his friends to help him honor Yangchen's Festival—one of the highest Air Nomad holidays, which hasn't been celebrated in over one hundred years. But cryptic visits from the spirit of Avatar Yangchen herself lead Aang to discover a jointly owned Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom refinery—operating on land sacred to the Airbenders! Is this the cause of the pollution Aang finds there, or is a more mysterious menace afoot? * The official continuation of Airbender from the original series creators! * Continues to top the sales charts! * The perfect companion to The Legend of Korra ! "One of the best new pop culture mythologies to debut in the last decade."—Kotaku "A fantastic glimpse into the post-series universe."—Bleeding Cool |
By: Jaclyn Cascio (@jaclynator)
The future is now. Media and technology pervade the world. And thus, the new gods gain power while the old struggle to be remembered. In this week’s American Gods, the new gods made their pitch. What will Wednesday and Shadow do? Read on for a review of this week’s episode.
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green’s American Gods is a stylistic treat every week, without a doubt. Visually stunning, there’s more than just a story being told. It’s an expression of art. In “Lemon Scented You” this week, that expression of art was illustrated most adroitly through the sensational hair and make-up work. Gillian Anderson as Media has already graced the screens as comedic legend Lucille Ball. This week, she was David Bowie AND Marilyn Monroe. A testament to the abilities of those working behind the screens, Anderson stops looking like herself and starts looking like whoever they want, and it’s an incredible transformation wrought by the hands of these unseen heroes. Add to that impeccable costuming and it seems to make sense that Media can be whomever she likes.
While the movers and shakers behind the scenes made Anderson look like other popular personalities, Anderson herself made it believable with intelligent acting and an innate awareness of how to come alive as someone else. Fully embodying another character is the goal of every actor or actress, and in playing a character who then plays other characters, that goal becomes loftier, but Anderson reaches it with apparent ease. She has the skill to portray multiple facets of the character of Media, and her craft cannot go by unnoticed!
Add to this Crispin Glover’s insane performance as Mr. World, and it becomes once again clear how well this show was cast. In “Lemon Scented You,” Glover managed to portray the powerful new god as logical and business-like with a dash of insanity. The character comes across as slightly crazed (and murderous), just beyond the point of endearing eccentricity. And he also looks like he’s playing the game. And in fact, putting Mr. World (along with Technical Boy and Media) into a room with Shadow (Ricky Whittle) and Wednesday (Ian McShane) finally told us what game they’re actually playing.
If you’ve read the book by Neil Gaiman, you have a pretty good idea of where American Gods is headed. You have, at the very least, some familiarity with the players involved. But for new viewers, little has been explicitly revealed, and the journey has likely felt intriguing yet confusing thus far. However, “Lemon Scented You” actually spelled out what American Gods is really about. Compared to many other shows on television, the revealing of the plot in “Lemon Scented You” may still have come across as frugal with details. American Gods thrives in its ambiguity. But, in a show heavily driven by visual story-telling and little exposition, the information this week actually felt like a mountain of plot to process. The pieces of previous episodes began to be assembled in this week’s episode. This is not to say that there wasn’t plenty of underhanded information sharing, and a fair sprinkling of subtle clues to tell even more of the story. But at least some things were finally spelled out. The story feels like it’s moving forward now, even if we’re not entirely sure where it’s going to take us.
This week’s episode of American Gods was perhaps the most enlightening of them all, so far. I enjoy a good mystery, but it can be exhausting sometimes to piece everything together; this week’s episode was a refreshing change of pace. There are still a lot of questions to be answered, but the show has finally defined its conflict so the audience can get on board with it, instead of vicariously experiencing the oddities of the world through Shadow’s anti-climactic reactions. We may still be on the outskirts of the story, but “Lemon Scented You” gave us a possible way in!
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“THE LAZARUS CONTRACT” part two! The Teen Titans collide with the Titans after both groups are targeted by the World’s Deadliest Assassin—Deathstroke! But when Robin interrogates Nightwing about his history with Deathstroke, dark secrets are revealed and alliances are broken! "THE LAZARUS CONTRACT" is a crossover story arc playing out in Titans #11, Teen Titans #8, Deathstroke #19, and Teen Titans Annual: The Lazarus Contract #1! |
