Lumberjanes #4 cover by Noelle Stevenson

July 4, 2014 Johanna Comic News One comment

Scouts Have Patches — Lumberjanes Announce Badges, Sales Growth

Lumberjanes is quite the success story, going from a limited-series run to an ongoing due to demand. Plus, issue #4, out July 9, has had orders greater than those for the first issue, demonstrating rare sales growth. Here’s the cover for that issue by Noelle Stevenson, emphasizing the scouting background of the story. The series is written by Grace Ellis and Stevenson and illustrated by Brooke Allen. To commemorate the series — and tie into the theme — Boom! has […]

July 4, 2014 Johanna Boom! Studios / Archaia 2 comments

The Woods #1-3

The concept behind The Woods is familiar, especially to manga readers. A high school full of students and faculty is transported to a mysterious world? dimension? where they have to quickly learn to work together or die. The best-known example exploring the rapid devolution of society when teens are stranded may be Lord of the Flies, but comic readers are likely thinking of Battle Royale. Although here, the kids aren’t told to kill each other — they just may cause […]

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 13 cover

July 4, 2014 Johanna Manga News One comment

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service to Return, No Date Given

At Anime Expo, Dark Horse announced that they would be continuing the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series. The last volume released was volume 13, which came out at the end of 2012. Although it’s a horror series, with a group of misfits dealing with zombies and investigating sometimes grotesque murders, I quite enjoy Kurosagi for its exploration of the dark side of human nature and its gruesomely lovely, detailed art, so I’m glad to hear we’ll get more. No […]

July 4, 2014 Johanna Comic News One comment

Boom! Announces Sleepy Hollow Comic for October

Boom! Studios will be releasing a Sleepy Hollow four-issue miniseries in October. The comic will be written by Marguerite Bennett and illustrated by Jorge Coelho, and the stories will be set during season one of the show. The issues will also include backup stories by Noelle Stevenson. The cover to issue #1 is by Phil Noto, as shown here: Coelho illustrated a limited Retailer Incentive cover, used as a project teaser. The second season of the TV show will launch […]

July 4, 2014 Johanna Other Publishers Leave a comment

Rai #1

I wanted to like Rai #1 more than I did. It had a lot of hooks I found interesting — including a far-future setting, with some clever tech ideas, an intriguing premise, and a sympathetic young woman — but the cold precision of Clayton Crain’s art turned me off. Don’t get me wrong, the images are lovely, but they’re so static, I’m pushed away from them. I’m guessing that they’re digitally painted, and to my eyes, there’s no sense of […]

June 30, 2014 Johanna Other Publishers One comment

Mixtape #5

The fifth issue of Mixtape concludes the series’ first arc. It’s got an excellent concept behind it, one of those ideas that seems so simple but so elegant: What song do you want played at your funeral? The high school kids, already facing the end of the school year, are grappling with the unexpected death of a student. He was a jock, and they didn’t really know (or like) him, but the activities that go through the school affect them […]

The Imitation Game by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis

June 30, 2014 Johanna Art One comment

“Imitation Game” Biography of Alan Turing Online

Jim Ottaviani, known for his scientist biographies Feynman, Primates, and Dignifying Science, among others, is back with a new one. The Imitation Game is the story of Alan Turing, the “father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence”. Best of all, right now, you can read it for free at Tor.com. As Ottaviani describes it, Flying at the head of Churchill’s flock was Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code. That alone would be enough to secure […]

June 29, 2014 Johanna Dark Horse Leave a comment

Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine

It is amazing to me that this book even exists. I’ve written about the title’s history before, but in short, Bloodhound ran ten issues from DC Comics in 2004, then disappeared until Dark Horse reprinted the series in one volume as Brass Knuckle Psychology last year. Then came actual new stories! By the same creative team — writer Dan Jolley, artists Leonard Kirk & Robin Riggs, and covers by Dave Johnson! I can’t even think of another comic series that […]

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