Previews gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s the spotlight of new books coming out of November Previews for the independent and much smaller publishers.
Not a whole lot of indie books for Novembers Previews. Well, there’s a lot of books but not a whole lot of new ones that are getting me really excited.
But here is the list of books I’ll be checking out or picking up.
Love some good war stories, particularly when the interior art is top notch by a well known legend.
Air War Stories #2 – It’s Alive
Each issue of Air War Stories focuses on aerial war battles, illustrated brilliantly by comic book legend, WWII vet, and Eisner Award-nominee Sam Glanzman!
This issue features: ‘The Hurricane That Wasn’t’ set during WWII, ‘Admirals’s Country’ set during the Cold War, ‘The Crimson Coffin?’ set during WWI, and ‘Tag-Along Takes Over’ set during WWII. Also included are essays about Sam Glanzman, original covers, vintage advertisements, and more!
This next one sounds like a potential great entertaining read with a different approach to your typical zombie apocalypse comic and story.
Kidz #1 – Ablaze Media
It’s been three months since a terrible epidemic turned the population into zombies hungry for fresh meat. Only after devouring almost all of humanity, the undead themselves begin to wither and fall from famine…
Somewhere in a suburban town, Ben, 10 years old and still traumatized by the death of his parents, forms with his friends the last bastion of humanity. And between hunting zombie survivors, expeditions to amass food, toys and comics, all filmed by the aptly named Spielberg, life flows rather peacefully in their world. Until something worse than a nuclear disaster or the 4 flashing red rings of death on an Xbox 360 hits their small community: two girls!
Accustomed to chilling by the pool, eating chocolate bars and playing video games, how will the boys react to Polly’s bizarre new customs and little sister Sue?
This next one from Scout has my attention. Could be good, could be meh. It’s on the check out list though. The writing and the art needs to be top notch for me to likely pick up. The one thing that does grab my attention is they mentioned the butterfly affect, one small change can alter an entire future timeline of events.
Tart #1 – Scout Comics
The newest entry in the new NONSTOP! Imprint where Scout releases a World Premiere issue followed by the entire story a few months later in one volume.
History is a fragile thing. One small change can alter everything that comes after. A little boy has vanished in 1950’s New York. Everyone is baffled except a young woman, Tart Acid, who arrives out of thin air. Tart realizes that this is no ordinary kidnapping. All she knows is that if she’s been sent, a demon is loose and threatening the history of the world.
Will she be able to find the boy before he becomes another casualty in Tart’s war against the forces of Hell?
Love some good sci-fi story telling. Danger Zone and Action Lab are hit or miss but the times they are hits, I think they create some severely underrated books that don’t get as much attention as they should.
Twin Worlds #1 Cover A – Danger Zone
Led by the chieftain Vin Raja, an armed force of native Drakkarans attack an outpost of imperialist Earthers who colonized their planet.
The Drakkaran forces take prisoners of war, which include native traitors who work with the Earthers, and make an example out of them back in their capital. In the meantime, princess Vin Kayla, daughter of Vin Raja, violates her house arrest and takes out her two twin children to watch her father’s victorious return ceremony.
The twins are hybrids controversially born to a pioneer Earth-man, which is a massive controversy and a secret that Raja insists to keep from his people. Leaders of the colonizing Earthers convene in reaction to the Drakkaran attack on their base and debate a response.
Another Scout book to keep a watchful eye on. Scout can put out some great reads and occasionally heat up if the story is good.
White Ash #1 Cover A – Scout Comics
Welcome to White Ash, a small smudge of a town in western Pennsylvania, where mining is a generational calling and the secrets are buried deeper than the coal in the mountain.
As Aleck Zwerg tries to escape that legacy and head off to college, he falls into the orbit of the enigmatic Lillian Alden. Together, they race down a dangerous path, leading Aleck to uncover a secret about his family that changes everything he knows about himself and White Ash. And now, if he leaves, there will be no one left to protect the people of the town from an ancient evil that has just returned.
I’m probably buying this next one just because of the name..
Cat Shit #1 (of 3) – Antarctic Press
Kobayashi Motofumi Kobayashi’s renowned war manga, filled with painstaking detail, returns to the printed page, but at full comic size for the first time ever! In this semi-fictionalized rendition of the Vietnam War, Sergeants Perky, Rats and Botasky comprise the special forces unit named Cat Shit One, risking their lives daily in recon patrol, jungle ambushes, tactical assaults, rescue operations and more. These soldiers may look soft, but their combat tales hit hard!
This next one has that definite indie vibe all over it. We could always use some humor in our readings.
Cartoon Dialectics #1 – Uncivilized Books
Tom Kaczynski, author of the Eisner-nominated Beta Testing the Apocalypse, brings his trademark, heady, laser-like, cartoon-theoretical focus on contemporary neuroses, obsessions and contradictions. Did you know about the 36th Chamber of Commerce? Get productivity tips from a master of Shaolin kung fu! Is there any possibility of Utopia after an orgy of modernity? What are komicxs? Irreverent, funny, and DINKy Award winning Cartoon Dialectics becomes a regular series.
Is Source Point Press pulling a Vault Comics? This is not the Apocalypse Girl of Amigo Comics but rather a new series out from Source Point.
Could still be a good read. I’m sure the regular cover will attract a few of you nerds who love the pretty girl with guns on the cover.
Apocalypse Girl #1 (of 6) – Source Point Press
Upon returning from the makeshift foxhole where her Papa sent her to hide from raiders, Anna finds his tattered body, ripped apart in a manner she recognizes to be the work of creatures he referred to as ‘hunter-fiends’, thrusting her into the position of now having to fend for herself while balancing the lifelong lessons from Papa with her own desire for retribution.
Amigo puts out some great horror books so a new Ghost Wolf volume is on the check out list for sure.
Ghost Wolf Vol 3 End of All Tales #1 – Amigo Comics
Faith is mine. When the old tales of light are told again, the old tales of darkness awake.
After millen-nia, the nemesis of the Ghost Wolf will reveal themselves to Mara Wolf-Arm, Jarl of the Northern Wastes. And also to her son Lif, who now wears the mantle of the Spirit.
I didn’t even read the first Gung-Ho but this second issue’s homage variant made my list just because it’s an awesome looking homage to the Star Wars cover.
Gung Ho #2 (Cover B – Ruan) – Ablaze Media
Orphaned brothers Zach and Archer are now a part of Fort Apache, and are expected to pull their weight around the community.
But Archer in particular has some other ideasÂ… So do the other established residents of the colony, making life hard on the newcomers.
The boys will have to prove themselves, and show some of the skills they’ve picked up along the way in this harsh, unforgiving new world.
The new book out from Haun. I just really dig this cover, it’s simple yet draws me in, telling me to buy it.
Red Mother #2 Cover Haun – BOOM! Studios
Daisy struggles to find her boyfriend Luke after they were attacked – but as the visions from her prosthetic eye grow stronger, she’s drawn further into the mystery of the Red Mother.
no comic book forum this week??