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Monday, March 20, 2023
Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for March 22, 2023
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
#IReadsYou Review: PRODIGY: The Icarus Society #2
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Matteo Buffagni
COLORS: Laura Martin
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Buffagni with David Curiel
DESIGN: Melina Mikulic
EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Matteo Buffagni with David Curiel
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (August 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, Edison Crane, who believes that he is the go-to guy when there is a global crisis to solve. Letterer Clem Robins and colorist Laura Martin complete the sequel's creative team.
Prodigy: The Icarus Society pits Edison against “The Icarus Society,” a secret society of geniuses who are all richer than Edison. And now, he is caught inside the club's internal rivalries and blackmailed into hunting for the treasures of one of the most legendary locations of all time.
Prodigy: The Icarus Society #2 opens in the prison, the Maine Correctional Facility. Professor Tong of the Icarus Society has forced Edison to free him from his imprisonment there. Tong has had an explosive device placed inside Edison's stomach and now, he will force our hero to play a game of cat-and-mouse with one his Icarus rivals, Felix Koffka. Must Edison, like the members of this secret society, fly too close to the sun.
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. Edison Crane is another great Mark Millar creation.
Millar has been producing some of the best comic books in North America for the better part of three decades. Even after becoming an executive with one of the most powerful media companies in the world (Netflix, of course), he continues to produce great comic books. Let's be honest, most comic book creators rest on their laurels when they hit the jackpot, and if and when they do produce new comic books, they are sometimes disappointing works. This is not the case with Millar, who delivers a monster of a second issue for this new series.
Millar used Prodigy: The Icarus Society #1 to introduce readers to Edison Crane's state of mind (more or less) and to his new challenge. With issue #2, Millar quickly reveals that this sequel will be as intense, if not more so, than the original. The mythologies, the conspiracies and the occult flourishes are even more delectable, and the villains … well, they are great f*****g villains.
The art team of illustrator Matteo Buffagni and colorist Laura Martin also threaten to fly too close to the sun. Matteo's art recalls the “widescreen” storytelling of DC Comics' late, great The Authority (one of the treasures of Millar's bibliography). Matteo makes The Icarus Society #2 feel like a Marvel Studios movie, full of big ideas and big expectations. Laura Martin's colors establish a series of rich and varied moods and atmospheres that draw the reader inside this perilous new world that Edison Crane faces.
More excellent lettering from the perpetually excellent Clem Robins tops it all off, and there you have it. Prodigy: The Icarus Society #2 washes over my imagination with a giant wave of intrigue and now, we can all be assured that this series will be fantastic.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of his comic book, Prodigy, will want to read Prodigy: The Icarus Society.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
#IReadsYou Review: KISS: Phantom Obsession #3
KISS: PHANTOM OBSESSION #3
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: Ian Edginton
ART: Celor
COLORS: Valentina Pinto
LETTERS: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Joseph Rybandt
COVER: Jae Lee with June Chung
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Stuart Sayger; Tim Seeley; Celor
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (November 2021)
Rated Teen+
Kiss is an American, four-man, rock band. It was formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss, the original line-up that is also considered classic Kiss. Kiss is best known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, and the group rose to prominence and gained a notorious reputation in the mid to late 1970s with its shocking live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood-spitting, and pyrotechnics.
The members of Kiss have licensed their band name and likenesses for merchandising. In a 2014 article, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Kiss had sold over one billion dollars from the sale of more than three thousand licensed items. That merchandising includes comic books. Kiss first officially appeared in a comic book in Marvel Comics' Howard the Duck #12 (cover dated: May 1977) and first starred in their own comic book with Marvel Comics Super Special #1 (1977). Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Platinum Studios, Archie Comics, and IDW Publishing have published licensed Kiss comic books.
Dynamite Entertainment obtained the license to produce comic books featuring Kiss' brand and began releasing Kiss comic books in 2016. The latest comic book is Kiss: Phantom Obsession. It is written by Ian Edginton; drawn by Celor; colored by Valentina Pinto; and lettered by Troy Peteri. Phantom Obsession pits the band against Darius Cho, a powerful, super-wealthy, obsessed Kiss fan who wants more than some autographs.
As Kiss: Phantom Obsession #3 opens, Paul, Gene, Ace, Peter, and Lyra Tzen, one of Cho's employees, are facing the “Super Sonic Monster Adventure Squad!” What is that? It's Cho's army of robot kaiju warriors, and they are ready to kick some Kiss ass. Luckily, our rock 'n' roll heroes are ready to kick right back. Now, it time to unleash their powers.
Meanwhile, Cho continues to monitor the escapees' progress – with a purpose – while he continues to build his secret project. And before Kiss and Lyra can escape Cho, they must enter “The Kingdom of Woes” and face the four demon lords.
THE LOWDOWN: Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department recently began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. One of them is Kiss: Phantom Obsession #3, which is only the third Kiss comic book that I have ever read.
In Phantom Obsession, writer Ian Edginton offers a breezy adventure that is part Kiss comic book and part superhero comic book. Edginton essentially shows that Kiss can fit into multiple fantasy genres, and in a way, his script sometimes makes you forget that these characters are fictional versions of a real life rock band. Phantom Obsession is a superhero comic book like any other, except it's Kiss, too.
And it works. I want to read more, and I think some of you will, also, dear readers.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Kiss comic books will want to read Kiss: Phantom Obsession.
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Monday, March 13, 2023
BOOM! Studios from Diamond Distributors for March 15, 2023
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