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2019 Image Comics poll week 40 - COPRA, Dead Eyes, Nomen Omen all debut
Hey everyone, a few housecleaning messages before we kick off the new year!
For the past 4+ years we've been running weekly poll threads over here. The idea is very simple: it's a weekly round-up of all Image Comics releases, with an added poll where people can vote on what they read and/or liked.
The voting is mostly window dressing though; the real value is in having a weekly place to discuss, ask questions, and recommend books to each other. We mostly focus on titles published by Image, but obviously discussion about comics published by other (indie) companies is encouraged too, if it seems relevant!
This year might be slightly different though: in order to adapt to the Image audience, I'm going to try to keep this as an ongoing thread, rather than weekly separate ones. The advantage would hopefully be that it allows people who read in trades/a few weeks or months behind to still pipe into previous discussions. Let's see how that shakes out in January - if it doesn't work, let me know and we can revert back to the previous format!
[B]All right, enough navelgazing, let's see which comics released this week![/B]
Creature Tech is getting a collected edition, Crowded is wrapping up its first storyline this week, Errand Boys hits its penultimate issue and will be concluding next month, Gasolina appears to make a sharp turn into 'monsters & submarines territory' this week, Savage Dragon features a Golden Age comic character you might recognise, Unnatural hits the half-way mark, and LOW is back for its final storyline. Don't worry though, it's a 7 issue arc from the looks of it, wowzers!
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[I]Covers for Crowded, Low, and The Walking Dead[/I]
Which comic(s) will you be reading this week? Vote for your favourite! Any titles you're looking forward to in the new year?
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2019 Image poll week #2 - Gunning for Hits & Criminal relaunch
Week 2, and we're getting our first new(ish) series of the year!
Last week's poll was won somewhat convincingly by [B]The Walking Dead[/B] #187, this week offers a lot more contenders though... Vote vote vote get hyped get psyched!
This week: we reach the half-way point for Auntie Aghata's Home For Wayward Rabbits (still the best series title ever), Birthright reaches the end of its current storyline and will be away for a few months, Bully Wars also ends a storyline, Doug Ten Napel's series Creature Tech is getting a full-colour re-release, Die's first issue gets reprinted alongside this week's new one, Hit-Girl wraps up a storyline, The Last Siege ends as scheduled, it looks like Rose is setting up for a final issue next month, and Sleepless is done as well after this week.
New series:
1. [B]Gunning for Hits[/B], billing itself as a music thriller, is set in sketchy 80ies New York. Expect neon and artists with questionable histories in this new series, drawn by MORITAT (who you know from Hellblazer), and penned by actual music producer Jeff Rougvie who worked with David Bowie amongst others. Comes with curated Spotify playlists too. Could be neat?
2. [B]Criminal[/B] returns this week! A real heavy-weight in the independent comics scene, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips are relaunching this one in monthly format, and the first issue is double-sized for good measure too. It's being billed as a good jump-on point for new readers, so if you've never been able to give Criminal a shot, this might be your year.
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[I]Covers for Gunning for Hits #1 and Criminal (2019) #1[/I]
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2019 Image poll week #3 - Isola is back; Days of Hate wraps up
Sorry it took so long to get poll #3 posted ladies & gents, life gets in the way sometimes.
Last week's poll was convincingly won by the [B]Criminal[/B] relaunch, looks like a bright future for this series' bleak future.
This week: Burnouts finishes its first storyline, while Deadly Class, Evolution, and Isola all begins new ones, Isola is on a bi-monthly schedule now by the way. Days of Hate concludes this week as scheduled, and judging from the comments here it went out on a banger. Speaking of Ales Kot, his and Tradd Moore's short-lived series The New World is also getting collected, which unfortunately flew so far under the radar I don't think anyone took notice when it was released.
What did you read this week? Vote for stuff you liked, let's go democracy!
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[I]Covers for Isola #6, Days of Hate #12, and the alternative cover for The Wicked + The Divine #41[/I]
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2019 Image poll week #4 - twisty Oliver
Week four, we truckin' on! Vote for comics woo!
Last week's poll ran just a few days unfortunately, but the winner was [B]Gideon Falls[/B] #10 as expected!
This week's happenings include: a hardcover collection of Mike Norton's (Revival) webcomic Battlepug, the end of the Beauty's current storyline, as well the one running in Die Die Die, Outcast starts heading to the final act, Middlewest is reprinting its first issue for the third time, Regression's series finale is here, and Monstress returns with a brand-new storyline.
New this week is [B]Oliver[/B], with the artist from Transmetropolitan teaming up with screenwriter Gary Whitta (credits include The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rogue One... and After Earth...), to deliver a sort of sci-fi retelling of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist story. It reimagines "the famous orphan as a post-apocalyptic superhero fighting to liberate a war-ravaged England while searching for the truth about his own mysterious origins", as per the solicitation.
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[I]Oliver #1 cover[/I]
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2019 Image comic poll week #5 - Two Mark Millar series collected
Week 5 everyone, let's see what's releasing!
Last week's poll saw [B]Monstress[/B] edging out a narrow lead, further cementing its position as overall forum-favourite.
This week: Ice Cream Man starts a new storyline, a bit of a longer one this time, running for at least 4 planned issues. Infinite Dark meanwhile, finishes its current storyline - the next one is already planned to release soon though. Same story for Skyward, which also ends a storyline this week, with 2 new issues already waiting in the wings. Spawn #293 also has an interesting gimmick this week, the third alternative cover comes with the entire issue printed in black & white instead.
There's no real new releases this week, but Mark Millar is pushing two older series back into print. 2010's [B]Nemesis[/B], with Steve McNiven was an Icon-imprint book over at Marvel, which now gets a collection at Image. [B]Supercrooks [/B]is a little less old, dating back to 2012, and had received a hardcover publication back in the day. This week though, a cheaper softcover collection is published through Image.
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[I]Covers for the Nemesis and Supercrooks collections.[/I]
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2019 Image comic poll week #6 - new series: Vindication
Almost all series got votes last week, but [B]Ice Cream Man[/B] #9 took the cake, congrats!
Here's what's on shelves this week: Cemetery Beach's penultimate issue, Curse Words finishes a storyline, and Prodigy reaches the half-way point. Aaaaand that's about it! Light week, but we do get a new series:
[B]Vindication[/B] is a limited series taking aim squarely at a divisive social topic. Set against the backdrop of ethnic profiling in American police forces, this series follows a (white) police officer who suspects a young (black) man of a murder. The suspect is acquitted in court, but the policeman continues to be suspicious. Does he have a correct hunch, or is his persistence in following the young man motivated by racial discrimination?
Tough subject, I'm not sure what the exact intent here is yet. Hopefully the creative team are up to the task of what I imagine will be a careful balancing act. Granted I'm literally judging the book by its cover here so they might pull it off with aplomb, or the series could jump off into an entirely different direction than it appears to.
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[I]Cover to Vindication #1 (of 4)[/I]