Chew #32 Written by John Layman Art by Rob Guillory Colors Assist by Taylor Wells Every issue of this series reminds us of the extraordinary capacity of the human imagination. Chew is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of book, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll root for a rooster. In issue #32 Layman leads the second line as the book takes a decisive step after Toni’s death. The series picks up steam in the wake of tragedy, moving forward with an unprecedented intensity and sense of purpose. Tony becomes vigorously committed to his job. Colby experiences a shocking revelation. Olive snacks on another dead guy. Just another...

Five Ghosts: The Haunting of Fabian Gray #1 Written by Frank J. Barbiere Art by Chris Mooneyham Colors Assist by S.M. Vidaurri Logo & Graphic Design by Dylan Todd Published by Image Comics Barbiere’s title character, Fabian Gray, is possessed by five literary ghosts: The Wizard, The Archer, The Detective, The Samurai, and The Vampire. Acknowledging the best of the adventure genre, Barbiere sets our expectations high, and does not fail to impress. Fabian is an intense character, haunted by his past, in addition to a literal set of ghosts that each give him access to their unique skill sets. Gray is a treasure hunter; he seems a mix...

Welcome, one and all, to the First Annual Image Addiction March Into Madness College Basketball Challenge! (whew, that’s a long name!) If you know anything about Image Addiction (well, mainly Chris) you know college basketball is huge to us (again, mainly Chris).  Knowing that we (again… Chris) felt it was time that the Image Addiction audience join up and have some good times with the college basketball tournament.  The teams will be announced tonight (Sunday, March 17) and the brackets will be set and ready for the fans to pick who they think will make it through to the Final Four and eventually win it all! We have set up...

Allow me to channel my inner Rod Serling for a moment, picture if you will, that you’re waiting in line for your coffee, you bump into an attractive stranger, and after a few minutes of pleasant conversation, you an your new acquaintance exchange names and phone numbers. Now, imagine that same night you’re at your computer, and on a whim you do a quick Facebook search using the name on your napkin. They wrote their name and number on a napkin, did I not mention that? Anyway, there they are beaming from a profile picture, just as you remembered them. Suddenly you realize that they like all the wrong music; they have terrible...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 86 SPONSOR This episode of the show is brought to you by www.InStockTrades.com and www.DCBService.com! Show Notes Welcome back to the show! This episode is full of surprised as DeWayne takes the lead and is joined by Mike and Image Addiction’s newest member – Sam LeBas. The three co-hosts review books from the last couple of weeks and anythig else that comes up in coversation. Enjoy! Contact info: Web Site: www.imageaddiction.net Email...

The Manhattan Projects #10 Finite Oppenheimers Jonathan Hickman – Writer Ryan Browne – Artist Jordie Bellaire – Colors Rus Wooton – Letters Published by Image Comics This issue opens with an epiphany and ends with a bang. Hickman has left the world of historical caricature and entered a dark place full of horror and nightmares made real. Previously he has shown us a remarkably unique perspective on the men behind the curtains of history. Issue #10 of The Manhattan Projects goes beyond that wink-and-a-nod sensibility and journeys into a new frontier, freely exploring the human psyche and the nightmarish landscape...

  Mind the Gap #8 Jim McCann – writer Rodin Esquejo & Sonia Oback – art Published by Image Comics This series is a genre-spanning tour de force that is sure to have you cursing your calendar for not moving faster. The hardest thing about reading Mind the Gap is waiting for more. So far in the series we have learned that Ellis Peterssen, Elle, is in a coma. She was attacked on a subway platform almost three days ago. Since then she has been trying to regain her memories and make contact with those she cares about through a complex series of means. Currently her consciousness is caught in a plane between life and death,...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 12 Show Notes This week’s guest is Sal Pane, writer of The Black List from Arcana Studio. Sal sits down with Mark and discusses his new graphic novel, breaking into comics, and his love for the Spider Clone, Ben Reilly. Follow Sal on Twitter @SalPane. Follow Mark on Twitter @koniwaves. Check out Mark and Owen Gieni’s Avengelyne webseries at avengelyne.keenspot.com. The unpublished issues from their Image run are currently being uploaded every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Song of the Week is Andrew WK – “She Is Beautiful.” Song of the Week Sponsor is...

Snapshot #2 Written by Andy Diggle Art & Covers by Jock Letters by Clem Robins Published by Image Comics Diggle and Jock don’t miss a beat. The action in this issue picks up where we left off last month. Jake Dobson, a comic shop employee who has made a series of unfortunate decisions, is standing face-to-face with the man who just killed his friend, Steve. The murderer has handed Jake his gun and demanded that he pull the trigger and kill him. What happens next takes the action from a low simmer to a full boil. The contrived nature of the story fades as Jake’s motivations become clearer. We spent much of the first issue...

SEX #1 Joe Casey – Writer Piotr Kowalski Brad Simpson Rus Wooton Sonia Harris Published by Image Comics You’re a smart reader, right? If you picked up a comic series called Boats you might expect boats to be heavily featured heavily in the aforementioned comic book. What about a series called Food? What do you expect to find in that one? Food, right! Jeezums you’re a smart kid. With that in mind, this series is called, SEX. So, yeah, don’t read it at work, or in your youth group worship service, or in the line of sight of that uptight soccer mom who goes to your coffee shop. Now that we have taken care of that,...

Lost Vegas #1 Jim McCann – Story Janet Lee – Art Phantom Variant – Skottie Young Published by Image Comics Lost Vegas #1 is an overwhelmingly successful feat of storytelling and a visual smorgasbord. McCann and Lee have given us a one-of-a-kind experience, rooted in familiarity, that surpasses whatever we were capable of expecting. McCann’s exposition is flawless. We meet up with a gambler, named Roland, in the midst of a high stakes game of black jack just as his luck is running out. It’s a familiar enough idea, a man full of bravado and ill-founded self assurance going all in when he should have gotten the...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 85 SPONSOR This episode of the show is brought to you by www.InStockTrades.com and www.DCBService.com! Show Notes Welcome back to the show! This episode is full of surprised as DeWayne takes the lead and is joined by Mike and Image Addiction’s newest member – Sam LeBas. The three co-hosts review books from the last couple of weeks and anythig else that comes up in coversation. Enjoy! Contact info: Web Site: www.imageaddiction.net Email...

Uncanny Skullkickers #1 Story by Jim Zub Pencils by Edwin Huang Inks by Edwin Huang & Kevin Raganit Colors by Misty Coats & Ross A. Campbell Color Flatting by Ludwig Olimba Letters by Marshall Dillon Published by Image Comics Thank god, they finally added adjectives. I don’t think I could have tolerated another issue without them. With the fourth wall completely obliterated, all play and no work make Uncanny Skullkickers #1 a fun read. You may not find the secrets of the universe in the pages of this book, but you will be entertained. I suspect Zub might know them, the secrets of the universe, I mean (or at least the secrets of...

People cannot stop talking about Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples. What are Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples doing that works so well? I think that perhaps its because Vaughn and Staples are making the familiar extraordinary. Vaughn has taken on a Herculean task. He is presenting modern attitudes and social practices as our modern mythology. Saga is the story of all of us, not the story of the exception to the rule. It takes the most human parts of our experience and forces us to consider them outside of the scope of our everyday existence. What choice do we have? We have to love it. Vaughn has presented us with things that we...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 3 Show Notes The Process Podcast is back! This time with the original founding member, Kurtis Wiebe! Kurtis, Ryan, and Jeremy have a long overdue catch up on all things process, progress, and plans for the future. Enjoy! Contact info: Web Site: http://www.facebook.com/TheProcessPodcast Email Address: processpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/Process_Podcast Logo Design: Danial Carroll Intro/Outtro music: “Learnalilgivinanlovin” by Gotye Podcast: Play in new window |...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 15 The catch-up tango continues as Craig, Jim, and Raven open the episode discussing the latest Larsen-related news and reviewing Savage Dragon 184. Later on, the gang is joined by Michel Fiffe, quite possibly the hardest working comic book creator of 2013– and he’s a Savage Dragon enthusiast to boot! Savage Dragon fans will recognize Michel as the editor of, and contributor to, the “Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies” series of back up stories that were featured in Savage Dragon from issue #160 to #171. In addition, Michel is known for work published in...

Written by Brian K Vaughn Art by Fiona Staples Letters & Design by Fonografiks Coordinated by Eric Stephenson Published by Image Comics I cannot say emphatically enough, this is one of the strongest comics that has hit shelves this year. The horror and tenderness of the last few pages will tear your heart out. Brian K. Vaughn has been moving chess pieces around the board since the series inception, with this issue you realize he has locked you into check abruptly. The game you thought you were playing with this master comes to a screeching halt that he has seen coming since the first pawn was moved. Vaughn’s ability to take...

Story by Tim Seeley Art by Mike Norton Colors by Mark Englert Letters by crank! Edited by 4 Star Studios Design by Sean Dove Covers by Jenny Frison Published by Image Comics This series owes a great deal of its success to the careful groundwork laid by Seeley in previous issues. He began the series with the private thoughts of one character, then introduced the personal conflicts of another, next he told us about just one family; and slowly added more three-dimensional characters and larger conflicts. As the series continues to grow systematically, a comprehensive understanding of this setting and its characters has been established that...

Subscribe to the show: RSS Feed :: iTunes Download this episode: Episode 11 Show Notes This week’s guest is Tyler James, publisher at ComixTribe and writer of their hit series, Red Ten. Follow Tyler on Twitter @TylerJamesComic. Follow Mark on Twitter @koniwaves. Check out Mark and Owen Gieni’s Avengelyne webseries at avengelyne.keenspot.com. The unpublished issues from their Image run are currently being uploaded every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Song of the Week is Sebastian Bach – “Kicking And Screaming.” Song of the Week Sponsor is the A Cat Named Haiku App for the iphone/ipad from Arcana Studio. Only...

Co-Created & Written by James Asmus & Jim Festante Co-Created & Penciled by Rem Broo Colors by Overdrive Studio Letters by crank! Consulting Editor Sebastian Girner Cover by J.A.W. Cooper Firstly, this cover by J.A.W. Cooper is one of my favorites that I have seen this year, perhaps ever. This will be tattooed on some guy’s shoulder within a month, and I would totally give him my phone number. It’s striking, simultaneously complex and simple, ornate and clean; this image and its structure concocted and executed by Cooper is expressive, engaging and narrative. I cannot stop looking at it. Hours later when I was able to...