Harrow County #13

[cyberghostface]

"'Backwoods horror' is a sub-genre that is near and dear to me. Growing up in rural areas, I know how dark the woods can get in the dead of night, and I’ve heard more than my fair share of chilling stories about witches and ghosts and goblins haunting secluded places. I spent a lot of time exploring the woods when I was a kid, and my friends and I made up plenty of encounters with ghostly forest denizens. At least… I think we were all making up those stories. Maybe some of my friends really did encounter a spectral green light or a headless Civil War soldier or a withered, grey creature curled up in a rotting hole in the trunk of a tree. Those were the types of stories we told each other in an effort to make the area in which we lived a little more magical, I suppose, and those yarns have stuck with me for years and years." -- Cullen Bunn

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Prodigy #1

[history79]

"There’s something fun about writing geniuses. I loved doing it when I wrote Superman: Red Son, I loved writing Lex Luthor. This is like doing a Bruce Wayne multiplied by Lex Luthor, but with Indiana Jones’s taste for Adventure."

- Mark Millar


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So apparently the top geniuses of Marvel are Judo experts

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The Dreaming #3 (2018) - "The Glory"

[laughing_tree]

What’s quite interesting is that some people will find specific contemporary reference and relevance where none was intended. [...] Now: it would’ve been really easy to make this into a thinly veiled comment on the Trump presidency. And, hilariously, readers on both sides of the political spectrum have made that assumption. In fact, the primary reference we took for all this stuff was the unhappy Weimar Republic in the 1920’s and 30’s (which – in being mistaken for an analogy of today’s world – should raise a few frightened eyebrows). -- Si Spurrier

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West Coast Avengers #4

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Self Made #1

[stubbleupdate]

Every week, comixology delivers my pull list straight to my inbox, and every week I have a look through the new releases to see if I've missed anything interesting. It's how I found She Could Fly and Euthanauts. They both had striking covers, as does Self Made #1*

Introducing a new creative team everyone will be talking about—superstar talent writer MAT GROOM and artist EDUARDO FERIGATO. When chaos besieges the kingdom of Arcadia, warrior Amala Citlali sees it as her chance to escape her clearly-defined role—and to change her destiny. But she could never have predicted that it would also be her chance to confront her God. In his debut editorial role, comics veteran KYLE HIGGINS guides this intimate, worlds-spanning story of self-discovery.
English Age Rating: 15+
The pitch doesn't grab me, but I'll give a lot of Image #1s a go. I trialled The Freeze as well this week, but that wasn't as good, and I won't be picking up #2.

Self Made confused me a bit at first as the flashbacks aren't as visually distinct as I would like, but I soon got into it, and a 2nd reading made more sense.

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Closing Line

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