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2019 Image Comics poll week 22 - Just three issues this week.
Week 21? I never heard of her!
This week is very notable for having... possibly the least Image releases since at least 2015? Might be forgetting a moment somewhere, but hey. Here's the 3 issues releasing this week: Ascender introduces a troll militia and uses of ancient robot tech, Black Science is gearing up towards a finale three issues from now, and Spawn continues to look at both the history and the future of the character as they inch towards issue 300.
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[I]Covers to Ascender #2, Black Science #40, and Spawn #297.[/I]
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2019 Image Comics poll week #23 - two Thumbs up
All right this week had a lot more releases than last one. Yet somehow last week's paltry 3 releases still produced a tied poll. Congrats go out to Black Science #40 and Ascender #2!
Here's the notable issues: Eclipse delivers its final issue this week, concluding the series with a final standoff. Man-Eaters starts a new storyline this week, with a new artist on board too (Elise McCall). Next up, Paper Girls has its penultimate issue before next month's finale, Section Zero reaches the half-way point, and Stray Bullets is back!
New series [B]Thumbs[/B] also launched on Wednesday, this one's by the same team who did The Few. The premise is basically: a tech business CEO like Mark Zuckerberg/Elon Musk/Steve Jobs/Tom From MySpace has trained a bunch of quasi-anarchist teens through an app and is now mobilising them to rebel against the government. The pitch for this is "Blade Runner meets The Social Network", and it's scheduled to run for five issues.
I'll be honest, that sounds like an awful idea on paper to me. I realise it's not cool to judge a book by its cover, so I could be very wrong here, but the premise doesn't sound very enticing to me. Yes, social media platforms are definitely a big part in revolutions nowadays, but I don't love the implication that people who use apps are uniformly vulnerable to be brainwashed by violent propaganda. Maybe I should read this and see how they handle it instead of playing armchair critic though.
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[I]Thumbs #1.[/I]
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2019 Image Comics poll week #25 - Classic reprints week
Wednesday's here, comics might be too!
This week's highlights include two classic series being reprinted into paperback formats. Heavy Liquid #1-5 see a collected volume of the Paul Pope sci-fi heavyweight title, while Ronald Wimberly's new-wave/disco take on Shakespeare's most famous work also gets reprinted in a new Prince of Cats volume.
Other notable releases include the penultimate issues of Assassin Nation and Little Bird, and the new Hit-Girl issue set in Hong Kong.
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[I]Covers to Monstress #23, Port of Earth #11, and Rumble #13.[/I]
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2019 Image Comics poll week 26 - Weatherman returns with predictions
Got another pretty busy week this time, after last week's poll which was won by the 14th issue of [B]Gideon Falls[/B].
This week: Ascender brings out a dragon, Deadly Class wraps up its current storyline, Head Lopper is back because another 3 months have passed, Spawn is inching towards another milestone, and Thief of Thieves at last comes to a close 43 issues in. An impressive run for any modern comic!
New this week is the return of [B]Weatherman[/B]. Following an attack that killed 18 billion people in the galaxy, Nathan Bright wakes up amnesiac and hunted by everyone...
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[I]Weatherman Volume 2 #1[/I]
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Image Comics poll week 27 - Three new series, and something else.
New week, new poll! Last time around the relaunch of [B]The Weatherman[/B] instantly launched to winning our poll, sounds like an encouraging start in our lil' echo chamber at least.
This week's an interesting one, here's some notable releases: Monstress is starting to release hardcover collections as of this week, Analog begins a new storyline, as does Crowded. Thumbs is reprinting its first issue, indicating strong sales.
This week also sees a big release for The Walking Dead in its path towards issue #200, which is kinda spoilerific so I'm tagging it as such: [spoil] soooo guess the road to #200 might be off, and the series ended this week? If so, it's very cool how they hid that to make the end come out of left field. They even released solicitations for future issues, including tentative covers and everything.[/spoil].
New this week are no less than 3 series, too.
1. [B]Postal: Deliverance[/B] is a new series in the Postal universe, loosely picking up from the previous one but should be accessible enough. Sounds like a violent first issue...
2. [B]Sea of Stars[/B] could be a big one. They're courting comparisons to Neverending Story and Miyazaki films. The new Jason Aaron/Dennis Hallum/Stephen Green/Rico Renzi series includes the following sentence in its solicitation "[I]Now separated from his son-with a breached suit that's venting oxygen at an alarming rate-Gil must defy the odds and stay alive long enough to rescue Kadyn. But meanwhile, Kadyn seems to be getting all the help he needs from a talking Space Monkey riding a Space Dolphin... or maybe it's the strange powers he's suddenly manifesting?![/I]" so that's weird and hopefully interesting.
3. [B]Space Bandits[/B] is slated to run for 5 issues, and looks like a fun eighties styled sci-fi story with motorbikes. Cue up your neon retrowave playlist and read this to the tune of cheesy FM synths!
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[I]Postal: Deliverance #1, Sea of Stars #1, and Space Bandits #1 (of 5).[/I]