GAIL SIMONE Goes VERTIGO With CLEAN ROOM

Clean Room #1 courtesy Vertigo Comics
Clean Room #1 courtesy Vertigo Comics

Gail Simone (Secret Six, Batgirl) is making her Vertigo Comics debut with artist Jonathan David Hunt.

 

From the DC Comics announcement at New York Comic Con:

 

CLEAN ROOM is a story of psychological terror, where your innermost secrets can be used against you.”

Meet Astrid Mueller—A brilliant, charismatic speaker and the head of a new church that claims to be able to cure anyone’s  deepest disorders through an expensive series of secretive therapy techniques.

Meet Chloe—A reporter whose photographer lover is brutally murdered while investigating a church that is run more like a high stakes PR firm. On the verge of suicide, Chloe finds the strength and determination to stay alive to find out the truth. Continue reading GAIL SIMONE Goes VERTIGO With CLEAN ROOM

Top Comics for July 30, 2014

Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics
Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics

Our top 5 picks of the week demands to be different so in part one we highlight four comic books with a finality theme.

Final issues, final chapters, final arcs by some of the biggest creators in comics!

Let’s start with….

 

Fatale #24 The sexy, violent, twisted epic of an immortal woman and men who love and die for her comes to a massive finale. Continue reading Top Comics for July 30, 2014

The Wake #4 Review

The Wake #4 courtesy Vertigo
The Wake #4 courtesy Vertigo

The most terrifying, edge of your seat sci-fi horror movie in years…is at your local comic book shop!

 

The Wake #4 just arrived and it’s the most intense chapter of Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy’s gripping thriller yet.

 

Scientists are called to a covert underwater oil rig to investigate an ancient life form. Mermaid from hell? Creature from the Black Lagoon on acid?

 

What’s more dangerous than one of these ravenous mer-monsters on the loose in a sinking underwater rig? Continue reading The Wake #4 Review

American Vampire Team Go Deep With THE WAKE for Vertigo

courtesy DC Comics

  The minds behind American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest reunite for a new Vertigo limited series next year. Scott Snyder (Batman) and Sean Murphy (Joe the Barbarian, Punk Rock Jesus) create The Wake for Vertigo Comics, an underwater sci-fi story.

  “I couldn’t be more excited about The Wake!” Snyder tells the Source, “This is a story Sean and I have actually been developing together for more than a year, a big, twisted, sprawling science fiction and horror epic, all of which begins with a single, terrifying discovery at the bottom of the ocean. It’s one of the most ambitious stories I’ve ever done, and there’s no one I’d rather be creating it with than Sean Murphy. Sean’s a great friend and we had a blast together on American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest; luckily, he’s also one of the industry’s brightest new stars, someone with unrivaled abilities as a world-builder—every scene he draws is so fully realized, so richly imagined, it’s hugely inspiring working with him, and I’m grateful to him for signing on to be my partner at the end of the world, here.”

 By Editor

 

 

New Comic Book Explores Horrors of War

 

Shooters cover courtesy DC Vertigo

   Comic books are more the entertainment. The medium can be a way to share the stories of real life heroes. Comic book fans know Eric Trautmann (Action Comics, Vampirella, Red Sonja ) and Brandon Jerwa (Battlestar Galactica, G.I. Joe, Highlander) for their adventures based on popular franchises. The Seattle team co-wrote Shooters the semi-autobiographical story about a loved one killed in Iraq.

Jon Humbert of my Seattle ABC station KOMO 4 tells the story. Here’s the link on KOMONEWS.COM.

Shooters is published by Vertigo Comics.