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May

Faker #01 (of 6)

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This column mentioned one of the previous days the forthcoming comic book “God Save the Queen” by Mike Carey and was actually thrilled to present a new work by him. This is the second time in a short period that we enjoy that privilege, Carey’s new mini series will be released this July by Vertigo and is titled Faker, it also seems capable of rocking your world (I know, I can’t control my enthusiasm).

Jessie is reaching the end of his freshman year in University in a tough Minnesota winter and to celebrate it he and his friends plan a great, wild party. After the party though everything seems to go terribly wrong for everyone, Jessie is hunted by memories she avoided for years, her best friend seems to have lost his identity and nobody outside their circle remembers or recognizes him with every official record of his existence deleted. What begins as a joke soon becomes a horror story where someone is something else than what he showed to his friends.

Faker is written by the great Mike Carey (Lucifer, Crossing Midnight, God Save the Queen) and illustrated by also well known Jock (he made The Losers, a great action story about a missing black-ops military team betrayed by their own bosses which is also planned to become a movie). It’s a story taking place the first year of its heroes’ independent lives when they choose what they want to be and what they want to pretend they are. All that through the prism of Carey’s story telling charisma and Jock’s beautiful drawing, this is something you can’t miss!

Apr

The Pirates of Coney Island

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Categories: Image Comics, Limited Series and Goth Tags: Goth, Image Comics, Limited Series.

When you search a little the mini series casually released by different publishers you will notice that they include different styles, innovative ideas, revolutionary creations, everything we usually miss by the ongoing ones. A perfect example of the previous statement is the 8-issue series currently published by Image, The Pirates of Coney Island, written by Rick Spears and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos.

Vasilis Lolos, a greek comic creator who published most of his previous work in Athens, moved to America ready not to translate his previous work (which is more than notable) but to begin a whole new chapter in his professional history, and it’s obvious that he made it in a very short period. He made the Pirates of Coney Island, which is overflowed by his unique, personal style, he made a Spider-Man story for Marvel in Spider-Man: Family #02, his Last Call is coming this summer by Oni Press, not bad for a European artist in the mayhem of the United States! Rick Spears, the writer of Teenagers from Mars, Dead West and Filler is also the publisher of the Gigantic Graphic Novels, currently publishing two comics, Rotting in Dirtville and Hellcity.

The Pirates is a love story, or maybe it’s a crime story, well I have no idea how to categorize it and frankly, I don’t care to. Two gangs of rebellious teens, the Pirates and the Cherries, fight for domination in Coney Island, they fight violently, they bleed together, they fall in love with each other and at the same time live outside the law, stealing cars and selling them for their parts. It’s as unconventional as it gets, the only way to get it is to read it by yourselves and not leave any synopsis make you judge it as rude (well, that it might be), sick (mmm, that’s ain’t always bad) or too violent (too violent? Is there such a thing?). Europe and America are united in this goth-post modern-romantic-whatever else story, don’t miss it!

Mar

30 Days of Night – Eben and Stella

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Categories: New series, Limited Series, 30 Days of Night and IDW comics Tags: 30 Days of Night, IDW comics, Limited Series, New series.

There are places dark and moist, invisible to the unsuspected eye, places quiet and away from the city lights, in those places terrible things are living. And then there are really dark places, like that village in Alaska where once every year the night lasts for 30 whole days, you know which, the one those vampires invaded for a field trip, Barrow, that’s the one! After the first limited series by Steve Niles (Criminal Macabre, Hellspawn, The Nail, The Creeper) and Ben Templesmith (Singularity 7, Silent Hill, Wormwood, Fell) and its great success there were many more spin offs, even the worst of them at least a decent reading. This is the latest one, coming up on May, 30 Days of Night – Eben and Stella!

In the finale of 30 Days of Night – Dark Days Stella brought her husband back from the dead but not quite as she expected, he returned a little more hungry than she thought he would. This series will fill in the gaps between Dark Days and Return to Barrow, a twisted tale of love, depravity, and hunger (from the official site) by Steve Niles and Kelly Sue DeConnick in the story and Justin Randall in the art.

It might not be the original masterpiece my Templesmith and Niles but personally I find it rather difficult to stay away from such a title, it’s horror comics at their best and you don’t meet that every day. The vampires remind me of the way Brian Lumley described them in his Necroscope, the art follows the general outlines of Templesmith’s work and the story is really carefully written, not only the main scenario but also the secondary tales and characters. So run to your closest comics store, NO NOT YET, IN MAY, damn he’s gone…

Mar

HACK/Slash

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Categories: Comic Movie, HACK/Slash, Devil's Due Publishing and Limited Series Tags: Comic Movie, Devils Due Publishing, HACK/Slash, Limited Series.

I never really figured out how some people like splatter films (and even more splatter comics), I don’t get how a slaughter can be fun or what’s the unpredictable element of a serial killer simply unable to die and killing everything walking on two gorgeous legs. All the answers I needed came to me in the form not of a movie but a comic book (recently inspiring a theater play and an upcoming film), HACK/Slash, the absolute massacre!

In every slasher movie, there’s one girl who makes it all the way to the end.

This time it’s Cassie Hack, former high school outcast and daughter of the infamous slasher called The Lunch Lady, the one she had to kill with her own hands after several murders in her school. The slashers are persons who died under violent circumstances, full of hate and anger, and came back to life for their revenge. They despise love, sex, anything that reminds them what they miss and kill innocent (or not) people in, if nothing else, innovative ways! Cassie is their nemesis, a slasher hunter who killed her own mother in her fight against evil, she scouts America with her best friend Vlad (a deformed man she mistakenly thought was a slasher) and kills those zombie-like enemies wherever she finds them!

HACK/Slash is not a horror comic book; if I had to place it somewhere I’d call it gore humour. Writer and various artists have created this parody of every American cliché known, cheerleaders are cut in pieces, massive murderers roam in the spring break, a pet cemetery comes to life and even Chucky meets Cassie and her ugly friend in a crossover issue. It’s funny, it’s disgusting, it’s ironic and sarcastic in a light way, what the heck, it’s much better than those Jason movies I never got to like! The HACK/Slash series includes the following issues:

HACK/Slash – vol.1 The First Cut
HACK/Slash – Euthanized
HACK/Slash – Girls Gone Dead
HACK/Slash – Comic Book Carnage
HACK/Slash – The Land of Lost Toys
HACK/Slash – Trailers
HACK/Slash – Slice Hard
HACK/Slash - HACK/Slash vs. Chucky
HACK/Slash – The Series #01
HACK/Slash – Final Revenge of Evil Ernie