The Peripheral by William Gibson is on the top of the book stack this week!
Author: George Chimples
George Chimples
George Chimples comes from the far future, where comics are outlawed and only outlaws read comics. In an effort to prevent that horrible dystopia from ever coming into being, he has bravely traveled to the past in an attempt to change the future by ensuring that comics are good. Please do not talk to him about grandfather paradoxes. He likes his comics to be witty, trashy fun with slightly less pulp than a freshly squeezed glass of OJ. George’s favorite comic writers are Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison, while his preferred artists are Guy Davis and Chris Bachalo, He loves superheroes, but also enjoys horror, science fiction, and war comics. You can follow him @TheChimples on Twitter for his ramblings regarding comics, Cleveland sports, and nonsense.
Arcadia #1 is a post-apocalyptic tale with a twist. After a global pandemic, the majority of the world’s billions live on in a computer simulation. The survivors slave on in meat space, tending the server farms that keep the much larger dead population in a state of somewhat life. All that, and it’s still politics as usual.
Convergence is happening and Pre-Crisis Earth-Two is on the clock. Can the aging Justice Society of America muster enough strength to fight it out against the forces of Qward? Find out in Convergence: Justice Society of America #1.
Convergence: Action Comics #1 pits Pre-Crisis Earth 2 against Elseworlds fan favorite Red Son Moscow. With two Supermans (and then some), there’s gotta be plenty of action in these here Action Comics, right?
With Convergence’s conjunction of convoluted continuity, how will Convergence: Hawkman #1 deal with the famously thorny history of DC’s favorite bird-themed intergalactic policeman and sometimes reincarnated Egyptian prince?
Convergence: Suicide Squad #1 hands DC’s favorite bad guys a hard mission. But if it wasn’t a tough job, it wouldn’t be one for the Suicide Squad, would it?
In Convergence: Shadow of the Bat #1, the Bat-Shadow falls squarely on Metropolis, as did a strange dome cutting the city off from all other resources. Will Bruce Wayne and Jean-Paul Valley be able to put aside their differences amidst a city on the skids?
What questions does The Question have about Convergence? Witness Renee Montoya’s return as the blank-faced vigilante in the pages of Convergence: The Question #1.
Descender #1 introduces another new sci-fi world, courtesy of Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen and the folks at Image. With the shelves stacked with science fictional comics, what does Descender bring to the table?
The Humans #1 is about apes, apes in a biker gang called The Humans. It’s a low-down dirty throwback to the exploitative biker films of the late 1960s and 1970s, and posits the question: why couldn’t they have been made with apes?
Dark Gods is the newest title from Avatar Press, by horror phenoms Justin Jordan and German Erramouspe. Can humanity survive the return of horrible entities that existed in a time before creation? Ehhh, doubtful.
As October draws to a close, so too must Friday Night Frights. The final entry? The cultish Vincent Price vehicle, Witchfinder General.
Shivers is our next entry in the Friday Night Frights series. Does the feature film debut of David Cronenberg come with all the director’s obsessions and quirks fully formed? You betcha.
Winston Churchill tells us that heroes fight like Greeks, but then why are there so few Greek superheroes? At least we still have Wonder Woman.