The greatest hero that the Marvel Universe ever forgot returns today in this new series by Jeff Lemire & Kim Jacinto!

The creative team behind GREEN ARROW & OLD MAN LOGAN reunite for this new supernatural mystery/thriller series from Image Comics!

BLACK HAMMER #8

BRAND-NEW STORY ARC!

There’s something unusual about the sleepy farming community of Rockwood: it’s now the home of Spiral City’s mysteriously vanished superheroes. But not by choice: they were banished to the town after a battle with the Anti-God, and now they’re stuck within its boundaries. Lately, a new arrival in town has started asking questions, and she’s discovering that its superpowered residents aren’t the only strange thing about Rockwood …

* Voted one of the best comics of 2016 by IGN!

BLOODSHOT REBORN #0

Perhaps the most important issue in Jeff Lemire’s continuing Bloodshot epic. Don’t miss this very special story…as we unveil a shocking new revelation in the Bloodshot saga. The next chapter of Bloodshot starts here!

Royal City #1 by Jeff Lemire

NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, A.D., Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIRE’s breakthrough graphic novel Essex County and is his most ambitious, and most personal, project to date.

PRETTY DEADLY and DESCENDER collections are on sale through 2/27!

A.D.: After Death Book 2, by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire

What if we found a cure for death? The second chapter of the haunting sci-fi epic by SCOTT SNYDER (WYTCHES, Batman, American Vampire) and JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, Moon Knight, Sweet Tooth). Jonah Cooke is haunted by his long, long past, but will it be enough to push him to turn his back on eternal life? And who or what may be calling to him from the old world below the clouds?

Inhumans vs X-Men #1 by Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule, and Leinil Francis Yu is here!

The X-Men and Inhumans have been on a collision course since the link was proven between the Inhumans’ precious Terrigen Mist and the sickness and death of many mutants. When Beast discovers that the mutants have only two weeks before the planet is uninhabitable for them, an Inhuman/mutant war is unavoidable. Co-written by Charles Soule (Uncanny Inhumans, Daredevil) and Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men, Moon Knight), IVX delivers sensational set pieces, gargantuan grudge matches, all drawn by the sensational Leinil Francis Yu! Whether you’re for the X-MEN or the INHUMANS, IVX promises to shatter the Marvel Universe as you know it!

MOON KNIGHT #9 by Jeff Lemire, Francesco Francavilla, Wilfredo Torres, James Stokoe, Greg Smallwood, Michael Garland, and Jordie Bellaire

The many iterations of Marc Spector converge! In the clash of personalities, who will emerge victorious?!

A comiXologist recommends… reveling in this beautiful book.

A.D. After Death #1 by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire

It would be an understatement to say that, after reading this, I was in awe. If Cypress Hills is a masterpiece created by Van Gogh, then AD: After Death is a masterpiece created by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire. It is not an ordinary comic book, but rather a ravishing novel at its best and it is my true, biased, irrevocably permanent opinion that everyone should/must read it.

The fluid and painterly watercolor reveals the technique of an artist who is in complete harmony with the liquid possibilities of this uneasy medium. The brush touches the surface and the water, filled with paint, flows down in the direction it pleases, creating magnificent textures and washes. Strokes of ink are sketchy and confident, portraying enough detail, but not too much to overbear and tire the eye. The mastery of light verses shadow, depth of field, and aerial perspective is so overwhelmingly beautiful. Everything from the watercolor blob on the opening page - following in the best traditions of abstract art, where emotional feeling mattered more than intellectual - to the dream-like drawings, cut-out pasted white paper pieces for the text and the typewriter font, all looks like something truly taken from an artist’s diary, who painted it en plein air, allowing readers to experience the story as if it were real biography and not fiction. The comic panels are also used sparingly, giving the art breathing room without having to “box” everything in. Art and story both are open and free in the usage of space and graphic elements.

As I was reading, it had the most profound effect on me. I could almost sense the coolness of the mountain air, the windy day in Florida and the gray overcast sky with the bit of a sun poking through, the smell of grass fields, the barn, all due to the mastery of the art. It is worthwhile to mention the amazing portrayal of the stormy skies towards the end of the book. The splotches of paint are fierce and active - this art very much reminds me of expressionistic paintings from the masters of old. It makes me want to pick up brush right now and paint, paint, paint. 

The story itself is a fantastic, out of this world journey of memory, of past and present colliding together. This first issue is definitely more of a plot setting than a stand alone book and it leaves you hungry for more – more of this wild, death-free, beautiful world, more of this character revealing himself and his life story, more on how it will all evolve.

If you, like me, enjoy developing your artistic and intellectual sense, I highly insist that you rush to open the covers of this book and teleport yourself into the fictional world of prose, imagination and beautiful art.

Yekaterina J. Cheban (Kat) is a graphic designer at comiXology.