![]() ![]() Written by Fred Van Lente Art by Brian Ching Colors by Michael Atiyeh Letters by Richard Starkings and Comicraft If you don’t, pick up all six issues and read it on your own. If you have kids, pick up all six issues and read it with them. It’s the kind of story that’s unpredictable yet relatable with an ending that creeps up on you like a satisfying sigh of relief after a long day. Packed with elements of fearlessness, friendship, and humor, this very simple looking comic subversively deals with complex themes of destiny, self doubt, and selflessness in a way that kids and adults will uniquely appreciate. Madeline Flores belongs up there with folks like Roger Langridge and Jeff Smith whose names are practically synonymous with the all-ages genre. I’m going to come out and just cop to having slept on this book-and hard-because this is easily one of the best all-ages stories I’ve read in a long time. Written and illustrated by Madeline Flores Colors by Trillian Gunn Help Us! Great Warrior #6 (Boom!Box) *LAST ISSUE* #TRILLIAN GUNN SERIES#This issue singlehandedly makes up for any missteps that this book has been a part of in the last few months by recognizing -and openly addressing-the things that make this series great: a relatively small cast of larger-than-life characters, weird outer space science adventures, and light, sitcom-style humor with a side of foreboding doom. It’s a premise so self aware and meta critical of itself with a cliffhanger ending tucked neatly inside of some character development. ![]() Remember last issue when Swerve disappeared on the last page in the middle of his monologue? Tying together months of subtle character development that happened right under our noses and we didn’t even see it, he lost himself on a holographic representation of Earth that’s based solely on American pop culture, cultivated from his endless television watching after he had a hard time coping with all of the recent changes to the ship’s roster. ![]() Written by James Roberts Pencils by Alex Milne Inks by Alex Milne and Brian Shearer Colors by Joana LaFuente Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #43 (IDW) Had there been, I would have been all over it.Īs usual, send any requests for review to subject line: “New Comics Wednesday,” and I’ll take a look if it’s under 64 pages. Inexplicably, there was no review copy of Transformers vs. Lots to be happy about this Wednesday, as Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye gets back on track with possibly its best issue yet, Help Us! Great Warrior comes to a very satisfying and touching conclusion, Conan The Avenger walks around kicking all types of ass up and down the desert, and Matt Kindt gives us a time travel story that’s just awesomely strange in Pastaways. Welcome back to the best day of the week, kids. ![]()
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