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Past and future riots Author: Joe SaccoPublisher: Metropolitan BooksPublication date: October 14, 2025 The Powerhouse Joe Sacco’s latest investigative reporting project, “The Riots of the Past and the Future,” published by Metropolitan Books, is one of those rare books that leaves you feeling like you might have come out of this experience a better, more enlightened person. This book examines the layers of tension that slowly rose in India’s Uttar Pradesh state and culminated in 2013’s explosive violence between two major groups: Hindu Jatists and Muslims. An outsider to this culture, Sacco is the perfect detective to guide the other…
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Robert Kirkman, Tom Reilly, Jorge Corona, Dan Mora, Connor Hughes, Ben Abernathy, and others to talk all things Energon Universe just before they took the stage at the Energon Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2025. You can read the GI Joe half of the interview here and the Transformers and Void Rivals half by clicking here. GI Joe editor Ben Abernathy and artist Tom Riley First, what can fans expect from G.I. Joe? Series artist Tom Reilly says, “There’s a lot of craziness going on in this next arc. It’s…
Solo Leveling: Ragnarok Author: Daul (REDICE Studio)Art: JinAdaptation: Brix (REDICE Studio) Chugong’s Solo Leveling, adapted into a manga by REDICES Studio’s Dubu, took the world by storm in March 2018 and became one of the top titles on KakaoPage, Tapas, and Tappytoon. Two years after it ended, a spin-off title was announced called Solo Leveling: Ragnarok with a new writer, Daul. The comic book version, illustrated by Jin and adapted by Brix, was released on Tapas in October 2024 and currently has 1.3 million views. Here is an overview of the tapas: After witnessing their own deaths, the Absolutes, the…
Earlier this year, it was announced that Artist Editions, oversized reprints of original art as art, had found a new home in Skybound through Scott Dunbier’s newly formed publishing company ACT 4. Today, Skybound announced that it has partnered with Scott Dunbier’s Act 4 Publishing to release the Artist Edition of Paul Smith’s Doctor Strange, which will be available in stores in August 2026. This isn’t the first time a Paul Smith comic book has received the Artist Edition treatment. Earlier this year, Smith’s X-Men work was included in Artist Edition. Details of the official press release are below. Doctor…
All eight episodes of James Gunn’s Peacemaker Season 2 are now available to stream on HBO Max. To celebrate, the elite of the comics beat gathered in Earth-X’s version of the stately Beat Manor to discuss the latest additions to the DC Cinematic Universe. What did you think of Peacemaker Season 2? Let us know in the comments or on social media. Cover photo credit: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max Photo credit: Miglio/HBO Max What did you think of Peacemaker Season 2? Avery Kaplan: I enjoyed Season 1 as well as Creature Commando Season 1 and Suicide Squad, but I thought Peacemaker…
Utsumi: Mare Internum Author: Der Sing HelmerPublisher: Vault ComicsPublication date: October 2025Cover price: $29.99Link to purchase The Internal Sea was originally published as a webcomic titled “Mare Internum” and was self-published in print in 2020, but has now been republished by Vault Comic to reach a wider audience. This is a comic about how people help and hurt each other, and how time, space, and distance change people. This comic starts with an impressive first scene. One of the main characters, Michael Fisher, is about to commit suicide by hanging when he receives a phone call from a colleague who…
From Software’s 2015 game Bloodborne may not have been the best-selling title of the 2010s, or even the year of its release, but it has stood the test of time as one of the best horror games of all time in the decade since its release, boldly injecting eerie cosmic horror and gothic aesthetics to create a visceral and haunting nightmare that still resonates with fans today. Directed by Dark Souls and Elden Ring legend Hidetaka Miyazaki, Bloodborne follows a gun-toting, nameless beast-killing hunter as he adventures through the darkness of the Gothic dilapidated Yharnam in search of answers and…
At New York Comic Con on Saturday, fans packed into Javits Center Room 406.1 to hear news about Skybound’s shared Energon universe between Transformers, GI Joe, and now MASK. The panel was moderated by Energon Universe editor Ben Abernathy and featured Void Rivals artist Connor Hughes. Transformers artists Jorge Corona and Dan Mora. GI Joe artist Tom Riley. Joshua Williamson, writer of GI Joe. Robert Kirkman, the screenwriter for Transformers. Last year’s Energon Universe panel was a highlight of NYCC, and this year’s stacked lineup guaranteed a great follow-up. Abernathy asked Kirkman what he thought about the reception of Transformers…
Lilith, Vol. 1 Writer/Artist: Colin HowellColorist: Warnia SachdevaAuthor: Jim CampbellPublisher: Vault ComicsPublication date: October 2025 When I was younger, I always envied the movies my older cousins watched in college, the clothes they wore, and the music they played. And I was reminded of this recently while reading Volume 2 of Lilith. 1. A fun new book that feels indebted to the culture of about 20 years ago. Lilith is Colin Howell’s debut solo series, published by Vault Comics and starring the title character Lilith, a femme fatale demon. She is trapped in the human world for reasons unknown. For…
Image credit: Dark Horse Comics A rogue group of outcasts and underdogs (and a monstrous but endearing creature known as an Otyug) encounter their old “friends” and, determined to outdo them in a local tournament, plan a raid on a nearby treasure-filled tomb. But it turns out there’s a reason why the treasure was left there for so long… Having already appeared in two prose novels, The Fallbacks already look like an established and very well developed team. Comic book artist Greg Pak didn’t create comics or write novels (though Jaylee Johnson deserves credit for that), but he seems to…