New this week! ALL STAR BATMAN #4, by Scott Snyder, John Romita Jr, Declan Shalvey, Danny Miki, Jordie Bellaire, and Dean White
“My Own Worst Enemy” part four! So close and yet so far from his goal, Batman must now wrangle Two-Face out of his own assassin-filled riverboat casino before it plunges over Niagara Falls to their deaths! The Dark Knight will have to go all-in on the most deadly gamble of his life if he intends to make it out alive.
Favorite Covers
@isensmith “anything Declan Shalvey does”
It’s hard to pick just one, right? Here’s one of my faves by Shalvey, Injection #7.
A comiXologist recommends:
Injection #1
by: Jonah Chuang
Let me first get this disclaimer out of the way: The Injection had me way before I read this first issue. When I found out that Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire (the superstar team behind one of my favorite comics series ever, Moon Knight) would be helming this project, I was already intrigued. Then I read the plot synopsis and I was hooked.
Essentially, there’s a group of crazy people who mess the world up and are trying to fix it. The series deals with those crazies as they deal with the physical manifestations of the fallout of their mistake, the mysterious ‘Injection’. It’s like Fringe, but with all members of the team are Walter Bishops. It’s subtle, mysterious, and very intellectual.
Warren Ellis’s handling of future fiction and mental illness in this book is as spot on as ever. Just as promised in its solicit, this first issue sets up a really complex universe which includes elements of sci-fi, supernatural horror, transdimensional misadventure and paranormal weirdness. These things, however, are not blatantly the focus of the story. If you like Image’s Trees, it’s very similar to that in that the characters only tangentially react to the spectacular elements in the story and mostly just carry on with their individual stories. Part of the reason for that is the characters are crazy, but it also seems to be a function of Ellis’s world building. He’s creating an interesting world where the abnormal comes off as commonplace.
The most captivating part of this book for me is the big mystery surrounding the title. What IS the Injection?? We see the symbol pop up all over the book in weird places but it’s not directly explained. It seems to be responsible for a bunch of mind-boggling craziness, like a lightning and fungi filled parallel universe, or a roasted human plugged into a computer that still talks, that incite your curiosity and inflame your imagination. With such a solid setup I can’t wait to see what kind of magnificent payoff Shalvey and Ellis have in store.
[Check out Injection #1 on comiXology]
Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at comixology. He’s going to Disney World next week!
Need a recommendation for the #MarvelBOGO happening right now? Those six warrenellis/dshalv/jordiecolorsthings Moon Knight issues…. I’ll tell you hwhat.
Connecting the movie 28 Days Later to its sequel 28 Weeks Later, this original graphic novel continuation focuses on Selena, one of the three survivors of the first film, as she embarks on an epic journey to return to Great Britain. Joining a team of American war journalists hell bent on venturing into the heart of Infected territory, they must learn the cold, hard truth of what it takes to survive in the U.K. after the Infection has spread.
Just in time for Halloween, we’ve got a 28 Days Later sale featuring some early art by dshalv
possibly the best logan/ororo moment so far
SO. GOOD.
Okay so I gotta set the record straight here… I saw some people online saying that the current run of Deadpool wasn’t very good and THEY ARE SO SO VERY MUCH WRONG!
The story arc from which the above photoset was taken, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, written by Gerry Duggan & Brian Posehn, with art from Declan Shalvey, and colors by Jordie Bellaire, may in fact be the very BEST Deadpool story ever. All the creators are on their A game here, and the story ranges from exciting, to hilarious, to heartbreaking, and back with aplomb.
For people who think Deadpool is nothing more than a walking punchline, read this collection and learn how wrong you are. You’re doing yourself a disservice by avoiding this series because of preconceived notions.