Edited by Matt Pizzolo. Black Mask (blackmaskstudio.com), $15.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-62875-007-2
The cover of this anthology refers to the collection as a “time capsule.” It’s a pretty apt description. This book preserves three star-studded floppies released at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement; publishing these is a worthy exercise
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Rashsan Ekedal. Image/Top Cow, $19.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60706-215-8
Rather than going for gross-out revulsion, this collected miniseries effectively evokes horror as its protagonist’s comfortable life unravels. Brian Cohn’s schizophrenia is safely under control as long as he takes his meds, until something his...
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Brent Peeples. Image (Diamond, Dist.), $12.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60706-518-0
Depicting superheroes as gods on Earth isn’t anything fresh, but this recent take offers some graphic ferocity. Pulling from the “absolute power corrupts absolutely” playbook, godlike superbeings the Greats visit the Earth to forge a paradise, but...
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino. DC Comics, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3687-8
Self-loathing vampire Andrew Bennett, created by J.M. DeMatteis in 1981, returns for a blood-soaked adventure in the New 52. Centuries ago the former Lord Bennett transformed his lover Mary into a monster like himself, but where Bennett rejected his
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Manuel Garcia. Dark Horse, $14.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-61655-439-2
The opening scene, where a former Skyman gets drunk and kills a bartender while spouting racist attacks on the president, suggests a new, modern kind of superhero comic, but the rest of this superhero revamp by Fialkov (The Bunker) follows a...
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Cody Chamberlain. Image, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-63215-227-5
This collection covers the chaotic comedy adventures of Abe, Fist, Skull, and Dog, four roommates whose heads are described by their names: Abe is Abraham Lincoln, Fist is a fist, and so on. The quartet careen through a series of increasingly...
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Joshua Hale Fialkov, Author, Noel Tuazon, Illustrator . Archaia $14.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-932386-82-0
The first comic created for Amazon Kindle turns out to be more than just an experimental curiosity. When Frank Armstrong, an elderly failed PI, is hired to find a drug boss's daughter, he sees a chance to redeem himself for failing to prevent...
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Joshua Hale Fialkov, Author, Jason Rodriguez, Editor, Noel Tuazon, Illustrator . Villard $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-345-49511-2
Originally serialized as a comic book (until its publisher went under), this coming-of-age thriller appears in its entirety for the first time. The young protagonist, John Kohler, is even more bored and frustrated than most teenagers: he's grown
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Joshua Hale Fialkov and Tony Fleecs. Oni, $19.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-62010-431-6
When aliens threaten to destroy earth unless a champion can withstand their tests, the middling, constipated moron Jeff Steinberg finds himself pressed into service. But his attempts to train for battle are constantly undermined by his inability to...
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Edited by Frederik Hautain and Tyler Chin-Tanner. A Wave Blue World, $39.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-9824539-4-0
Comics news site Broken Frontier crowdfunded this hefty, wide-ranging anthology loosely connected by the theme of “breaking boundaries and exploring the great unknown.” In execution, this includes everything from a horror story set in Alaska, to...
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