Junji Ito adapts Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel Frankenstein in this book, which also includes a number of short stories, most of them featuring a creepy kid called Oshikiri. I wasn’t that taken with the Frankenstein adaptation but the short stories were pretty decent.
The remnants of humanity have been forced underground while the hybrids rule the surface. But a mad holy man plots to alter the virus that nearly wiped out humanity by placing it in an unsuspecting hybrid and sending them to the surface world. That hybrid is a little boy called Gus…
The Batman is a new vigilante that seems to be cleaning up crime in Gotham City - but at the expense of big business. As the rich elite grumble about lost revenue, footage emerges of Batman seemingly executing prisoners on a rooftop - but is it the real Batman… or an imposter?
Adam Strange is the hero of two worlds: Earth and his adopted homeworld Rann, which he saved from alien invaders, the Pykkts. Following the publication of his memoir, allegations of war crimes surface about Adam’s actions during the Pykkt war and his squeaky-clean hero image is called into question. Adam’s life is strange… but is it fiction?
Foster’s daughter has been missing for years and it’s driven him near crazy. He sees her and her kidnappers everywhere - but he finally has a possible clue of her whereabouts. Mitzi is a foley artist in search of the perfect scream ever to be captured on film. Somehow these two character’s destinies are entwined as they hurtle to their own personal oblivions.
Glenn Ganges drinks coffee at night and then can’t get to sleep. His racing mind contemplates time. Time. Woah. So vast. And… woah. He also recounts his time at a dot com startup and tries to tire out his mind by reading dull books on philosophy.
This is a comics adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s memoir recounting the incredible story of his Jewish family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941 to the relatively safer south of France. It’s all the more impressive given that Jo and his brother Maurice were young teens when they made the journey by themselves (going in pairs was easier than going as an entire family).
I’ve been curious about Thomas Pynchon for some time now. I know his books are held in the highest esteem, they’ve won the biggest awards, and he’s a famously reclusive writer, having not been seen in public for decades now. And I was also informed that his most accessible book is also his shortest: The Crying of Lot 49.
A clown has a terrible day - but manages to stay upbeat. A clown stripper remembers a doomed road trip with her crazy clown mother. A mime makes a friend - in a robot! Another clown floats, a kid attempts to steal from an old lady clown, and a clown stumbles into the world of the Ice Cream Man...
Recently released psychopath Freddy Frenger’s arrived in Miami and kicked off his latest crime spree with the murder of a Hare Krishna. It’s up to Detective Sergeant Hoke Mosely to take Freddy off the streets!
Keanu Reeves plays a character so tough he killed all the vowels in his book’s title! Want to read a comic that rips out the spine of good taste and murderizes subtlety with it before dancing in the blood of restraint? Disappointed that no comic out there caters to the FBI watch list crowd for deranged psychopaths? Worry not, my soon-to-be-suicided-by-cop friend - BRZRKR is here for YOU!
A man catches a bus out of the city to a rich person’s house - and finds himself in an unthinkably horrific scenario…
Five friends rent out a haunted old Japanese house for a spooky wedding - but turns out them advertised ghosts is real and ghosty is getting revengey!
Michel Rabagliati’s latest book in his semi-autobiographical Paul series, Paul at Home, is his darkest book to date with the protagonist in his early 50s and having a bit of a miserable time of things. He’s got toothache and sleep apnea, he’s divorced and struggling to get to grips with online dating, his 19 year old daughter is leaving Canada for England, and his elderly mother is slowly dying.
2020, and President Robert Redford is seeking re-election. But his four-term tenure looks to come to an end as Turley, the Republican nominee, is picking up steam. And then an assassination attempt is made on Turley’s life, almost twarting his campaign. The would-be assassin? An unrecognisable old man in a Rorschach mask with Walter Kovacs’ prints. But Kovacs (the original Rorschach) died nearly 35 years ago - didn’t he…?
Jason’s immortal musketeer Athos finds himself in 1925 Paris where he meets a young Hemingway. Off they go to see the bulls run in Pamplona! In the second story, it’s 1944 Paris and Hemingway leads a team to assassinate Hitler and end the war. And finally in 1959 Cuba, an elderly Hemingway reminisces about his time with Athos.
