Richard Starkings, Author, Joe Casey, Author, Ladronn, Author . Active Images $29.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-9740567-0-8
This may be the most gorgeous graphic novel ever devoted to a corporate mascot. Hip Flask, a hippopotamus/hard-boiled detective, was originally created to illustrate Richard Starkings's computer lettering site, Comicbookfonts.com. This European-s
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Joe Casey, Dan McDaid, Paul Maybury, and Ulises Farinas. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (284p) ISBN 978-1-61655-345-6
If you’re looking for a series of stories that shine a strange light on the traditional superhero tale, you’ll find it here. Reprising but also reenvisioning some of the heroes of the Comics Greatest World imprint from the 1990s, Casey (Sex, The...
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Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski. Image, $9.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-60706-784-9
Bringing together issues #1–#8 of his series, Casey (Uncanny X-Men, Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker) gives readers another sharp, twisted take on superhero clichés. Readers will be engrossed by this story about retired superhero, Simon Cooke—but...
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Joe Casey, Author, Dustin Nguyen, Illustrator, Richard Friend, Illustrator . DC/WildStorm $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0276-7
Smart, exciting and somewhat creepy, this latest version of the Wildcats saga shows the one-time super team installed at the pinnacle of corporate America. Alien android Spartan is now known as Jack Marlowe, CEO of huge Halo Corporation, which...
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Joe Casey, Author, Steve Parkhouse, Illustrator . Dark Horse $12.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59307-080-9
Everyone recognizes the perfect housewife: thin-waisted, beautifully coifed, apron-clad, with just the right words to solve all of her family's problems. Then there's Barbara Vale: middle-aged and paunchy, hair in curlers for a husband who...
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Joe Casey, Author, Tom Scioli, Illustrator . Image Comics $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-58240-581-0
Casey and Scioli have decided to ignore whatever are the latest trends in the world of superhero comics and create a book that brings back a subgenre that most would have thought dead by the late 1970s, the cosmic superhero epic. The story features...
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Joe Casey, Author, Charlie Adlard, Illustrator . AiT/Planet Lar $12.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-932051-45-2
A graphic novel about a man who is turning into stone might sound like it will feature superhero adventures along the lines of the Fantastic Four's The Thing. Instead, Casey (Wildcats Version 3.0
; Gødland
) and Adlard (Walking Dead
) are
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Joe Casey, Author, Rob Liefeld, Illustrator . Image $34.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-58240-858-3
In 1992, when writer/artist Liefeld launched his original Youngblood series, hypertrophied superheroes with enormous guns and costumes covered in leather pouches were all the rage, and Liefeld was the master of the style—the first issue of the
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Joe Casey and David Messina. Image, $24.99 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-63215-011-0
Casey (Sex, Gødland) once again uses superhero tropes for something other than worn-out events. All the characters feel awful, and the news is filled with items that just make them more depressed. There’s something terribly wrong with the world,...
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Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood. Lion Forge, $19.99 trade paper (148p) ISBN 978-1-63140-465-8
With the 30th anniversary of Miami Vice just past, a reappraisal of that once-iconic cop show is probably due. However, this hyperactive graphic novel revamp from writer Casey (Godland, Sex) and artist Mahfood (Grrl Scouts) is not the way to do it....
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Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston. Image, $17.99 (250p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0333-1
There was a time, perhaps in the early 1980s, when the violence and in-your-face sexuality of this graphic novel might have felt audacious. Since then, however, many writers have put their spins on cynical, sexualized superheroes, and this book,...
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Joe Casey and Benjamin Marra. Image, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5343-1174-9
This odd reenvisioning of the story of Jesus of Nazareth by Casey (Accell) and Marra (Night Business) depicts the future messiah as a tormented man who is also, at times, a fearsome warrior. The tale begins in 26 C.E. with Jesus suffering from...
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