Various. Image, $9.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1534300675
Every year, the British comics festival Thought Bubble produces a short collection of shorter comics. This anniversary anthology collects all 10 years of the collections, featuring top creators from both sides of the Atlantic and the winners of the...
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Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, and Dean White. Image, $9.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-60706-967-6
Fantastic voyages, whether in SF or comics, seldom go smoothly for their crews, and this one is a killer. Scientist Grant McKay, his family, and colleagues set out on a desperate journey when his dimension-hopping invention is sabotaged and they’re...
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Rick Remender and Wes Craig. Image, $9.99 ISBN 978-1-63215-003-5
Built on the comic book trope of a secret school for gifted youngsters à la X-Men, and mixing in John Hughes’ high school clique clichés, Remender’s self-described “memoir of sorts wrapped in the guise of a crime thriller” ends up not being much of...
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Rick Remender, Tony Moore, and Jerome Opeña. Dark Horse, $16.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59307-764-8
Fear Agent’s violent, alcoholic protagonist, Heath Huston, careens from one crisis to another, driven by greed, self-loathing, and a self-destructive lack of insight second only to his capacity to stumble into the center of world-shattering events....
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Rick Remender, Sean Gordon Murphy, and Matt Hollingsworth. Image, $9.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-63215-663-1
A stellar creative team seamlessly produces a work that's both breakneck and beautiful. In the Tokyo Ghost future, humans are mired in technological addiction, too busy consuming vapid entertainment directly through their optic nerves to notice when
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Rick Remender, Author, Mat Broome, Illustrator, Eric Canete, Illustrator . Dark Horse $12.95 (102p) ISBN 978-1-59582-195-9
This first album from the ongoing comic series shows a gloomy future for superheroes. After Astonishman (a Superman stand in) was tricked into releasing a cloud of mutating radiation, many humans died while several gained superpowers. Most of the...
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Rick Remender and Max Fiumara. Image, $16.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-5343-9789-7
Remender (the Uncanny X-Force series) and Fiumara (the Amazing Spider-Man series) unite for a thrilling fantasy set in a kingdom whose prosperity relies on its terrible secret: every year, one child from each common family is taken from their...
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Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, and Brett Parson. Image, $16.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-5343-6648-0
This sweet and raunchy slice of life spikes its 1980s California skate-punk nostalgia with brutal face-plants, hard-won lessons, and bursts of violence. Drawing on their own youths, writers Remender (the Sacrificers series) and Posehn (Rifters)...
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