LeaguePodcast and DigBoston Comics Picks of the Week for June 17, 2014

 

 

COMICS

Bringing the characters of The Bard to Life, Kill Shakespeare: The Mask of Night #1 takes the action onto the water, a great companion piece to the new IDW game of the same name! …The weird wonderful talking drug addled space gun and cyber punk adventure concludes as Butch and Gun defend Repo city in Ballistic #5. … The Phonogram / Young Avengers team of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are back with a new creator owned project THE WICKED + THE DIVINE telling the tale of Gods reincarnating as teenagers—the ultimate pop-stars! Picks from the new LeaguePodcast.com.

DigBoston and LeaguePodcast Comic Book Picks of the Week for February 26, 2014




COMICS


Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye #15 puts the focus on back on Barton and Barton face to face with..themselves as the building goes into lockdown! … A cinematic grind house masterpiece Vandroid was destroyed in a fire in 1985. Tommy Lee Edwards resurrects the android built out of van parts in Vandroid #1 from Dark Horse. …Butch is paired with the drug-addled Gun face off with the super boss in Repo City State in Ballistic #4 drawn by Darick Robertson (The Boys). … Picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com!

BLACK MASK STUDIOS: LIBERATING AND OCCUPYING COMICS - Cosmic Treadmill at FORCES OF GEEK!

Black Mask Studios is a new creator owned and operated publishing company that can be described as being influenced just as much from the punk rock scene as it is the comic market.

Publishers Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Brett Gurewitz (from punk band Bad Religion) and Matt Pizzolo (Occupy Comics, Godzilla) are ready to represent the punks, vegans, animal liberators, the 99% and hip hop heads with a variety of intelligent, funny and sometimes bizarre catalog of comics featuring artists and writers from the underground and also celebrity writers and artists the likes of Alan Moore, Ghostface Killah, Darrick Robinson and Ben Templesmith.
 
After the jump we take a look at their first wave of titles.

 

BALLISTIC
Writer/Co-Creator: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Illustrator/Co-Creator: Darick Robertson
Colorist: Diego Rodriguez
Letterer: Crank!
Producer: Pizzolo
Issue #2 out on September 11, 2013
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Not since Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson) has a future world looked so disgustingly bleak and surreally awesome. One could also draw comparisons to the cybernetic hyper pop culture world of Hard Boiled(Frank Miller, Geof Darrow) or elements of Miller’s Roninfor this tale of ex-con Butch with his talking, fleshy best friend of a gun.

The walls, the cars, the drugs, the cloned human meat and even gigantic buildings with human heads seem to be living and breathing.

Everyone’s on drugs, especially the gun and bong hits from organic brain stems seem to keep everyone on the same level.

The psychedelia is merely a backdrop for a bad-boy heist story except that this time, the guns is too hungover to participate or function properly. 

What we have here is a cyber-psychedelic-anti-hero action comic for the ages. No wonder this is Grant Morrison’s favorite comic of 2013. Writer Adam Egypt Mortimer is working with Morrison on a movie project that will mess with your head no doubt!

Darick Robertson is a master of the page, with incredible detail and really excellent work here. Fans of The Boys and Transmetropolitan need this book!

[READ MORE at FORCES OF GEEK]

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