Spiral Comics Blog

Professor X’s son, David Haller, gets his own mini-series under the Marvel Legacy banner. Multiple fans have been clamoring to get more of this multiple-personality character since his surprise hit Fox TV show. “Trauma Part 1 A mind-bending X-Men tale from the brains of Peter Milligan (X-Statix, Shade the Changing Man) and Wilfredo Torres (Moon Knight, Black Panther). David Haller, the son of Professor Charles Xavier, has always had trouble containing the multiple personalities in his mind. And with each personality, comes a wild and dangerous mutant power. But now, a terrifying new personality is threatening to absorb these powers and take over David’s mind and body. In a desperate attempt to save himself, David seeks out the help of […]

This new mini-series from Image gets praise from Patton Oswalt. So, yeah, it’ll be funny. “From Eisner and Emmy-winning writers. For a few years in his early 20s, Nick Wilson had super powers and all the acclaim associated with them. When those powers vanished, so did his fame, sending him from national hero to late-night punchline. By the time we pick up his story, he is not yet 30 and barely an answer in a trivia contest. Faced with a life in a rear-view mirror full of lost powers, faded glory, former enemies, ex-girlfriends, and forgotten grudges, Nick struggles to figure out who he is today. Packing on an extra 20 pounds and peering through a medicinal marijuana haze, he […]

Fifteen years and 144 issues. Robert Kirkman’s INVINCIBLE ends. If you were holding out to read them in reverse order, now’d be the time to start that crazy plan. “SERIES FINALE ‘THE END OF ALL THINGS,’ Conclusion Final issue. Everything since issue one has been building to this. Nothing can prepare you.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: EISNER AWARD NOMINEE, IMAGE SKYBOUND, ROBERT KIRKMAN (W)

Here’s a nifty new comic series based on the Netflix original cartoon series. “Stretch Armstrong is back. Based on the all-new Netflix animated series and inspired by the classic toy line, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters features Stretch, along with his partners Omni-Mass and Wingspan, attending high school by day and fighting crime at night in futuristic Charter City. But when they come across the monster known as The Mantoid, they have to decide whether it’s truly the threat everyone thinks it is.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: CARTOON TIE-IN

Get in on the ground floor with the first issue of a new Disney Princess comic book series from IDW…TANGLED… Or Rapunzel will hit you with a frying pan! “Further adventures inspired by the Disney Channel series. Join Rapunzel, along with her boyfriend Eugene and best friend Cassandra, in these adventures that take place after the events of the hit Tangled film.” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: DISNEY, DISNEY PRINCESS

Here’s a super-cool sounding new Vertigo mini-series. I’m definitely intrigued by the ‘world.’ I’m less excited about the actual drama described in the solicitation text, but I realize there would be no ‘world’ to showcase without some kind of actual story to tell in it. That’s the trick. That’s the magic. “In a crazed future where unhinged technologies and interconnected parallel Earths have given rise to a spectacular class of super-criminal, the most beloved celebrities aren’t actors or rock stars, but the bounty hunters who traverse an exotic multiverse in search of impossible prey. But when the spotlight-shunning, strait-laced tracer known as Tab finds herself in an ultra-violent race for her greatest prize yet, she’s forced to work with her […]

This is one of the most promising of DC’s ‘New Age of DC Heroes’ initiative. A high school junior has an accident during the DARK NIGHTS: METAL storyline and gets superpowers. There’s a real ‘spider-man’ vibe with the age of the hero and the ‘with that much power comes great liability’ tagline DC threw into the solicitation text. That’s ok with me. I love Spider-Man. Marvel never really cracked the code on how to get lightning to strike twice with the concept. Speedball. Darkhawk. Sorry, no plans for them in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But I get a real good feeling from SIDEWAYS, simply because it is tied to a strong storyline and doesn’t feel like it was created in […]

A prequel comic book series to the upcoming sequel film. Jaegers and Kaiju clash! “Prepare to return to the epic universe of Jaegers and Kaiju with Pacific Rim Aftermath, the official comic book prequel to the highly anticipated new film Pacific Rim Uprising starring John Boyega and coming to theaters March 2018. Santa Monica, 2034. In a city that was once the jewel of the west coast, a new world has emerged: one rising up from the ashes of giant robots and giant monsters. In this futuristic aftermath, we will meet a new generation of survivors, including Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, who is searching for answers behind the death of his Legendary father; Griffin, a Jaeger pilot who […]

Holy, choose-you-own-adventure book! That’s what this is…but in a comic format. I know. So cool. “The classic you-choose-the-story format jumps to comics with this dungeon-crawling fantasy adventure for young readers. Urik the dwarf will need help from his trusty spirit guide if he’s to find the mysterious Dragon Relic, a quest assigned to him by the gods. There’s just one little problem: that spirit guide is you. New dangers and new decisions loom on every page. Help Urik overcome deadly demons, lying fairies, and beautiful, yet treacherous, unicorns. Will he return home a glorious champion, or fall in a hole? Combining the setting and decision-making of classic sword-and-sorcery RPGs with the captivating storytelling and art of comics, Relic of the […]

The latest addition to DC’s Hanna-Barbera Universe…Snagglepuss! And he’s a gay Southern playwright…wait! Wha?!? “It’s 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive voices, no one is safe. Drama. Humor. Tragedy. It all starts in Exit Stage LEFT: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1, a new miniseries from the writer who brought you the Flintstones. RATED T+” Buy It Now Related shopping tags: […]