Megg and Werewolf Jones are - Horse Mania! The worst band in the world! Follow their incompetent shows that test the audience’s patience as they perform in back gardens and dive bars and take on the local music scene, heckling other bands’ performances and sabotaging their merch tables! Will they ever make it - find fame and fortune through their art? Of course not. They’re garbage. Horse Mania! Aoow!
It’s 1980 and a small plane crashes into the ocean killing all nine passengers aboard. But when salvage diver Robert Western enters the underwater plane, he finds only eight bodies. Then men in black start showing up to ask him: what did he see down there? Did he take anything from the wreckage? And does he believe in aliens…
Outlaws, Native Americans, katanas, bandits, the beautiful but deadly natural landscape and animal inhabitants of ‘murica, and the filthy lucre, gold, gold, goooooold! that drives the conflict behind most of the stories here.
A farmer marries a city girl and the two start a family in the country. But the marriage isn’t a happy one and the wife hides a secret concerning their daughter. When the farmer does something unforgivable, the wife will have her revenge.
Batman Inc. are arrested for moiderising some character called Abyss in Badhnisia (which is east of Crapland and just south of Nasty Place). Batman flies out to see what’s what.
The group remain stuck in the deathtrap-laden Borderland but they’re also slowly figuring the world out and might’ve even discovered a way to escape once and for all. All roads lead to the mysterious Beach - will Arisu and co. find the answers they’re looking for there?
A young girl goes to stay with her uncle and aunt for the summer where her life and theirs will change in subtle but powerful ways as they each help the other’s hidden trauma. But summer never lasts…
I’m not a Ram V fan and can’t fathom his popularity - I’ve read his Catwoman and Swamp Thing books at DC, his Laila Starr book at Boom, and they’re all terrible. But apparently These Savage Shores at Vault is supposed to be his best book, and it’s the one that got him those other titles, so maybe I’ll be all turned around on him if I give this one a shot? Uh, no. I won’t say it’s his worst book because they’re all this level of crappiness but it’s definitely not good.
You know how Jeff Lemire never does comics set in a dystopian future? Wait… (thinks)
Cleo’s in her mid-20s, a struggling English artist trying to make it in New York. Frank’s in his mid-40s, a successful American ad exec. The two meet by chance and begin a whirlwind romance - Cleopatra and Frankenstein (their nicknames for each other) is the story of their relationship.
In a post-apocalyptic dystopian future (in a Jeff Lemire comic? That’s completely unheard of!), child vampires roam an empty city surviving on rats - until a human survivor stumbles across their path and they realise they’re not as alone as they thought. Tasting human blood for the first time in centuries, the group splits between those who want to continue their established way of life and those who want to venture out and see if there are more humans to feast upon. Which side will wi… zzz…
George Saunders is a brilliant short story writer but he’s also capable of writing some absolute drek - unfortunately, Liberation Day is down there with the likes of The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and Fox 8 as among his most dire work. What’s worse is that the garbage is unrelenting - there’s no story here that’s even half decent!
Thom is preparing to move his young family from the east coast to the west coast, and hopes that the move will help settle his marriage with Maggie, as well as calm his 4 year old, Jamie. Because Jamie sees a monster in his closet each night - will he be able to leave it behind or will the monster follow him?
A screenwriter goes to a house in the mountains with his family to write - but, oh no, the house is haunted and things goes bad!
