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Monday, January 16, 2023
Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 18, 2023
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Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 18, 2023
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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for January 17, 2023
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
#IReadsYou Review: NYX #2
NYX #2
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: Christos Gage
ART: Marc Borstel
COLORS: Jordi Escuin Llorach
LETTERS: Taylor Esposito
EDITOR: Matt Idelson
COVER: Rose Besch
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Rose Besch; Fernando Dagnino; Greebo Vigonte; Giuseppe Matteoni, Jamie Biggs; K Dani; Mel Rubi; P Dani
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2021)
Rated T+
Nyx created by Tom Sniegoski and Ed McGuinness
“Tales to Admonish”
Nyx is a Vampirella comic book character. She is the daughter of Chaos the Mad God and a human woman, making Nyx half-demon and half-human, but she needs to feed on human life force in order to live. Nyx was created by writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Ed McGuinness and first appeared in Harris Comics' Vengeance of Vampirella #23 (cover dated: February 1996). She is a longtime enemy and sometimes friend of Vampirella.
The character now has her own solo comic book series, entitled Nyx. It is written by Christos Gage; drawn by Marc Borstel; colored by Jordi Escuin Llorach; and lettered by Taylor Esposito. The series finds Nyx dealing with her emerging human side, although her demon side is still powerful and hungry for human life force.
Nyx #2 (“Tales to Admonish”) opens in the realm of the Mad God Chaos. You see, Nyx has journeyed to the realm of her father, the Mad God Chaos, to demand answers about herself and her bloodline. And things go about what one would expect. Father and daughter talk the only way they know how – a full on battle.
During the battle, however, Chaos offers shocking revelations that Nyx could never uncover on her own. Still, all she really wants is to find happiness. Can dear old dad help with that?
THE LOWDOWN: Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department recently began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. One of them is Nyx #2, the second issue of the series that I have read.
Nyx #1 was a powerful first issue, and Nyx #2 also has power. Writer Christos Gage offers a twist with some epic family dysfunction. Marc Borstel's art gives the battle to readers as if it were glorious superhero fight comics. Jordi Escuin Llorach's colors pump up the testosterone, and Taylor Esposito's loud lettering completes the explosive effect of reading this issue.
I highly recommended the first issue, dear readers, but I must admit that I am still surprised. This comic book is actually quite good.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Vampirella comic books will want to try Nyx.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
#IReadsYou Review: PRODIGY: The Icarus Society #1
PRODIGY: THE ICARUS SOCIETY #1 (OF 5)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Matteo Buffagni
COLORS: Laura Martin
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Buffagni with David Curiel
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Bill Sienkiewicz
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (July 2022)
Rated M / Mature
Prodigy: The Icarus Society is a new five-issue comic book miniseries produced by writer Mark Millar and artist Matteo Buffagni. It is a sequel to the 2018-19 six-issue miniseries, Prodigy. The Prodigy comic books focus on the adventures of the world's smartest man, who believes that he is the go-to guy when there is a global crisis to solve.
Prodigy: The Icarus Society #1 opens in Maine where a credit controller has just spontaneously exploded. In fact, this is an entire afternoon of spontaneously exploding people in Maine When the mayor and the governor don't know what to do, they call the Pentagon, and the Pentagon calls Edison Crane, the world's smartest man.
The person behind these explosions is the just the beginning of “The Icarus Society.”
THE LOWDOWN: Of Mark Millar's recent Netflix comic book series, I am a huge fan of The Magic Order, but I am always thinking about Prodigy. After reading the first series, Prodigy, I was intrigued and thrilled, and after re-reading it in trade paperback form, as Prodigy: The Evil Earth, I admired it all the more.
Millar uses Prodigy: The Icarus Society #1 to introduce readers to Edison Crane's state of mind (more or less). Our hero is in need of a challenge. Millar builds the issue slyly; the new threat is all around Crane, preparing to reveal itself. At the same time, rascally Millar teases us with this idea: doesn't it seem as if Crane is deliberately setting himself up to be challenged and abused?...
The art by Matteo Buffagni for The Icarus Society is quiet compared to Rafael Albuquerque's fast and furious storytelling in the earlier series, The Evil Earth. Buffagni creates a story that conveys the current malaise (of Crane) and simmers with the coming menace (from the “rival” geniuses). Colorist Laura Martin is a master of creating the varied moods of action and violence, and here, she delivers on shadowy and secretive and sudden violence. Clem Robins does much the same, carrying the reader through the wavy flow of time and pace in this story.
I can tell from this first issue that Millar and Buffagni are going to throw everything and many kitchen sinks at us. Prodigy: The Icarus Society reminds us that a month with at least one Mark Millar comic book is a good month, indeed.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of his comic book, Prodigy, will want to read Prodigy: The Icarus Society.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Monday, January 9, 2023
BOOM! Studios from Diamond Distributors for January 11, 2023
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