Best Comic of the Week:
Rain Like Hammers #1 – Brandon Graham has a way of creating worlds that are completely incredible, but also feel very relatable. In this new series, he gives us Eugene, a worker in a moving city who doesn’t appear to have any friends or much purpose. He’s new to Elephant, having worked hard to get this posting, but now finds it pretty isolating and disenchanting. Graham never explains why all people seem to live on these roving cities, but when one of them suffers a catastrophe, we get to see more of how society appears to operate. Eugene’s days of sitting alone in his room eating food he didn’t prepare feels pretty familiar after the last year, and I’m sure a lot of people will relate to his position. Graham’s artwork is always a fantastic mixture of expansive empty landscapes and detailed personal possessions. His work here has a real Moëbius feel to it, and it looks great. I’m happy to see him working on such a personal-feeli
Folks, I just can’t over-emphasize what a great week this is for new comic book releases. What have we done to deserve this? (Nothing, of course, we are filthy sinners; but even sinners are lucky sometimes.) There are so many excellent releases that I want to talk about this week that I’ve split them into two separate posts. You can read the first batch here, concerning fairy tales gone wrong; secret lesbian romance in the.
Dragon, a new graphic novel built around the infamous Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula. But even
that wasn t the full extent of Ahmed s new projects. He also went back to 1970s Detroit and a determined reporter working to get to the bottom of some very dark problems in her city.
This week, Ahmed and artist Sami Kivelä launched
Abbott: 1973, the second volume of their acclaimed BOOM! Studios supernatural period drama
Abbott, which follows journalist Elena Abbott as she investigates threats to Detroit that exist at the strange, dangerous intersection of white supremacy and supernatural menace. This time around, it s a new year and in some ways a whole new world for Elena. She s got a new job at a Black newspaper in the city, a new romance with an old friend, and she s getting better at controlling the strange Lightbringer powers she discovered she possessed in the previous volume. But of course, darkness is still following her, and as the election of Detroit s first Black mayor
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It is nearly new comic book day again. New releases are on the way and will hit comic book stores and digital comics platforms and each week in The Weekly Pull,
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com s team highlights some of the new releases that we re are most excited about getting to read. Those releases might be from the big two publishers or a smaller press, brand new issues of ongoing series, original graphic novels, or collected editions of older material. It might involve capes and cowls or it could be from any other genre. Whatever it is that s making us excited about comics this week, we re going to tell you all about it.