Spiral Comics Blog

Horror comics fans will love this homage anthology from DC which will be out in time for Halloween! “Horror. Death. Uh…Face-punching. Witness ten all-new stories that promise to be the most terrifying, most shocking and most horrific comic that DC Comics has ever published. (Hyperbole much?) Batman, Wonder Woman, Guy Gardner, Swamp Thing, Zatanna and more of your favorite heroes face unspeakable horrors from the streets of Gotham City to the darkest sectors of the universe.” Buy It Now

Here’s a great idea! Team up stand-up comedians with comic book creators to make some darn funny funny books. (See what I did there?) “The comic-est anthology of 2018. Comedians love comic books, cartoonists love comedy, and our idiot editor used to mix up comics who tell jokes and comics that have pictures. Now his perpetual confusion has led to the creation of Comics Comics, a quarterly anthology teaming comedy’s best with funny books’ brightest. Headlined by Patton Oswalt (MST3K, Happy.), issue #1 features hilarious original stories from comedians Jackie Kashian (The Dork Forest), Sara Benincasa (Getting Wet with Sara Benincasa), Eliot Rahal (New Comic Book Day), and Rose Matafeo (Funny Girls), with art by Troy Nixey (Vinegar Teeth), Robert […]

Here’s a very interesting new series from small, independent publisher Ahoy Comics. It’s written by Stuart Moore who’s worked in the big leagues, so you don’t have to worry too much about the base quality and can just evaluate the subject to see if it interests you. Plus, there’s a backup prose story from big name Grant Morrison. Ahoy may be putting out some sleeper hits here. “When the human race died out, the cats inherited the Earth. Or at least one starship. Now the intrepid Captain Ginger struggles to keep his fellow felines united against a hostile universe. Thirty-five pages of comic adventure-with a bite-by writer Stuart Moore (Deadpool the Duck, Batman: Noir Alley) and artist June Brigman (Power […]

Dynamite takes their time coming out with these Lone Ranger series. Get this one while it lasts! “A sparking new adventure from multiple Eisner Award nominee MARK RUSSELL (The Flintstones) and BOB Q (The Green Hornet ’66 Meets The Spirit). 1883. The advent of barbed wire is creating havoc in the Texas panhandle. A corrupted state senator conspires with dirty ranchers to make land unnavigable for open rangers and native tribes, passing new laws allowing cattlemen to kill anyone caught cutting the wire. Good people are getting hurt, and The Lone Ranger must act. But to truly stop this rampant villainy, he’ll need to go all the way to the top, and rely on an old friend for help… Featuring […]

SPIDER-GWEN lives on as GHOST-SPIDER!…somehow…through the Spider-Geddon…which sounds ominous…and super-cool! “A SPIDER-GEDDON TIE IN. What? You thought we were done with Gwen Stacy after the first two landmark volumes of her series? GET OUTTA HERE. It’s a whole new spin on Gwen and her world of Earth-65, brought to you by none other than SEANAN MCGUIRE and ROSI KÄMPE. We pick up with Gwen right where we left her – fighting crime through her home reality, unaware that it sits on the precipice of interdimensional calamity. Someone’s gonna be late to band practice… Rated T+.” Buy It Now Interested in Getting Started In SPIDER-GWEN comic books? Check out our guide here. Related shopping tags: SPIDER-GEDDON (2018), SPIDER-GWEN, SPIDER-MAN FAMILY TITLES

Been waiting a little while for a new Umbrella Academy mini-series? Ta-da! “Faced with an increasing number of lunatics with superpowers eager to face off with his own wunderkind brood, Sir Reginald Hargreeves developed the ultimate solution … Now, just a few years after Hargreeves’s death, his Umbrella Academy is scattered. Number Five is a hired gun, Kraken is stalking big game, Rumor is dealing with the wreckage of her marriage, a rotund Spaceboy runs around the streets of Tokyo, Vanya continues her physical therapy after being shot in the head-and no one wants to even mention Seance until issue #2. With a Netflix series soon to debut, the award-winning and best-selling superhero series returns, stranger than ever- And their […]

Here’s a little something awesome from small publisher Legendary Comics…a Netflix LOST IN SPACE in-continuity story! “Netflix’s smash-hit rebirth of the beloved sci-fi classic Lost In Space continues in this thrilling graphic novel expansion to the series which will take the Jupiter 2 where it has never been before. 30 years in the future, en route to a distant colony, the Robinson family finds itself thrown off-course when their ship crash-lands on a mysterious and dangerous planet. On this strange new world, they encounter a hostile environment and an enigmatic alien robot. In order to survive, the Robinson family must rely on their training, and they’ll discover that no matter how lost they are, their family is their home. These […]

Here’s another possible sleeper hit from Ahoy Comics…a cross between Drunk History and Tales from the Crypt? Yeah, that sounds cool. “Edgar Allan Poe mangles classic tales and brand new stories in this cross between Drunk History and Tales from the Crypt. First, meet AHOY’s own alcohol-damaged version of Poe in ‘The Facts in The Case of M. Valdemar,’ adapted by Tom Peyer (Batman ’66) and drawn by Fred Harper. Then: Sugary cereal meets vampirism in ‘Dark Chocolate,’ by writer Mark Russell (The Flintstones) and artist Peter Snejbjerg (Starman). EXTRA. Comics by Hunt Emerson, unsettling verse by Cienna Madrid illustrated by Carly Wright, and a cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: HORROR

KISS returns–this time from the dead–in a new series from Dynamite! “KISS returns to rock’n’roll and save the world. An immortal cabal is taking the lives of innocents and the only ones who can stop them are KISS. The only problem…they are dead. And now they have to make a deal with a demon to save their souls and return to Earth to fight evil. Join Bryan Edward Hill (The Wildstorm: Michael Cray, Postal) and Rodney Buchemi (Death of Hawkman, The Librarians) as they bring you the KISS series we have all been waiting for.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: KISS

This new IDW Black Crown series from David Lapham looks excellent!! “A handsome drifter murders his way through the midwest while hiding in plain sight as a travel blogger, leaving families in shreds and body bags in his wake. Ricky Toledo was fifteen when she fell hard for ‘Dante’-until he killed her mother and got her father sent to prison for it. It’s three years later, and Ricky will stop at nothing to get revenge. Lodger is a dark, grimy, psychological thriller-a game of cat and mouse between a broken young woman and a serial killer-and like all the best crime noir… a twisted love story. A new series from Eisner Award winners David and Maria Lapham. BLACK CROWN’S first […]