Welcome gang, in these weekly threads we vote on our fave Image comics of the week and maybe chat about whatever we want, join in! I'm a day late with the thread this time, whoopsadaisies, hope y'all ain't mad.
Last week's poll saw the first win of Saga this year. Was it truly beloved though? Or was the poll rigged by phony fake news sources? We'll never know...
We've got a big week on our hands this time again. Extremity wraps up its series for example, but we also see the long-delayed new issue of The Fix. The Gravedigger's Union wraps up a first storyline, with a second one already starting just a month from now. The horror book Spread is also coming to an end this week, as had been announced a while back. VS. is getting a reprint of its first issue, The Wicked + The Divine starts a new story arc... Oh, Image is also printing a preview issue of the Image Expo announced series, and lastly I wanna point out that Firebug is getting collected this week. That story was pretty good from the now-defunct Island Magazine which I dug a lot, so here is the rest of it.
New series!
1. Gideon Falls is written by comics superstar Jeff Lemire, drawn by Andrea Sorrentino (of the recent, excellent Green Arrow at DC) and has Dave Stewart on board for good measure too. It promises rural horror & suburban mystery in a town full of madness, death and general darkness. Cover game seems on point, too.
2. Oblivion Song is the new Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead/Outcast) comic. It's about 300,000 Philadelphians who suddenly went missing one day and got sucked into a void of some sort. The government has long given up on locating these people lost in Oblivion, but of course our main character doesn't. What will he actually find though, if anything, and how much of this rescue mission is voluntary...? Sounds like a good read for Silent Hill fans, maybe.
3. Prism Stalker sounds pretty hype. Do you like Sailor Moon? Do you like David Cronenberg style body horror? Finally, the comic for us! Space refugee and pneumatical arts expert Vep works for a bunch of insectoid overlords in a City Nest, but the opportunity to escape to any number of thousand of stars beckons... This is by Sloane Leong so it's bound to look great.
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