Edwyn and Virginia are in love. But, after stopping at a backwater town run by a ruthless businessman, disaster strikes when Virginia is captured and held hostage so that Edwyn is forced to do terrible things to get her back safe. Except, what no-one in this town realises until it’s too late, is that Edwyn is a former government spook-gone-rogue with mad skills - who is also completely mad. And he’ll stop at nothing to get back the love of his life. Also, Virginia is a plastic sex doll…
Unemployed Maggy lands a secretarial job at a private investigator’s office - except the PI turns out to be an incompetent boob so she takes over his caseload and pockets the fees once she solves them! But when the PI is brutally beaten and hospitalised over (what else?) a pile of hidden cash, Maggy finds herself caught in a dangerous battle between cops and robbers and no one is quite who they seem. How will her quick thinking get her out of this jam?
Ronin is back and causing strife for the villain of the week, The Hood (a nobody wearing a Doctor Strange-esque cape). People think it’s Hawkeye but it’s not. Or is it…? Who cares…
Kabi Nagata’s latest memoir manga, My Alcoholic Escape From Reality, should really be called something like Dealing wIth the Consequences of Alcoholism as her drinking escalates to the point where she’s hospitalised with pancreatitis and fatty liver. The book follows her treatment and long road back to recovering her health.
Egyptian-themed villains of the week from some other world, imaginatively named Otherworld, want to destroy our world, or something, for Definitely Not Arbitrary Reasons. Alien tarot cards mean ten X-Men have to get ten magic swords to fight the baddies with. Get ready for monumental boredom as the X-books go from bad to worst!
The Magician tells the life story of Thomas Mann, an early-to-mid 20th century German writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel The Magic Mountain, and who was later revealed to be gay (or at least bisexual), following the unsealing of his diaries in the late 1990s, several decades after his death.
DC revisits the world of the 1989 Batman movie by bringing back its screenwriter, Sam I Am Green Eggs And Hamm, for a new comics series. And this first issue is a really uninspired and boring beginning!
A councilman, whose dad was involved with a shady developer shortly before dying in suspicious circumstances, wants Ethan Reckless’ help in bringing down said developer. But Ethan will have to do it without his assistant Anna as she’s decided the private investigation game isn’t her bag anymore. It’s the third Reckless book: Destroy All Interest In The Series!
It’s 1969, Hollywood, and Rick Dalton, an aging, washed-up, alcoholic actor, is looking for work - and finds it, playing the villain (he used to play heroes when he was younger), on a new cowboy TV show. Joining Rick on his slide down from the top is his best friend and stuntman stand-in (when Rick needed it), Cliff Booth. Together they navigate a strange path through a changing film industry and encounter up-and-coming actors, uppity agents, and hippies - hippies are everywhere. And some of them, like spurned wannabe rock star Charlie Manson, are gonna take out their frustrations on the unwitting residents of the Hollywood Hills…
After discovering her estranged ma has died, single white trash female Kat Somerville takes her kid Sybil back to her childhood smalltown home, Comfort Notch, “home of Amurica’s prettiest autumn” (the only time I’ve heard that season described so on that side of the pond - usually Muricans calls it “Fall” because it sounds more Biblical I guess), for the funeral and to take up residence in her ma’s house. But things aren’t what they seem in Comfort Notch. Them fancy trees is killer…
The award-winning Batman: Black and White is back for another limited run of Batman short stories, but, unfortunately, true to its name, it is a very colourless book, both literally and in terms of story quality.
The sixth (of seven) books collecting the works of master Italian illustrator Sergio Toppi contains his Japanese comics, mostly from the 1980s, with one from the ‘70s and one from the ‘00s. They’re an uneven bunch writing/story-wise but Toppi’s art is incredible throughout.
Guy Delisle recounts his teenage years working a summer job at a Quebec paper mill in Factory Summers. And… that’s about it?
In a world where the Justice League has failed, an older Superman who’s losing his powers makes one last attempt at resurrecting the spirit of collective action by putting together another superteam: The Authority! But time is running out as rogue robots loose in the Phantom Zone threaten to break through and destroy our world and a mysterious villain in space plots to kill a weakened Superman, once and for all…
