Reading Recommendations

Find out why Wytches by Scott Snyder, Jock, and Matt Hollingsworth is one of the scariest comics out there.

This week’s artist is cartoonist Skottie Young! His uniquely vibrant style has become a favourite for many, with many people requesting me to feature him in this column. Take a look at a gallery of his fun work as well as some reading recommendations inside.

Just like a giant monster, you’ll eat up too with Kaijumax #1, the opening issue of the Orange is the New Black meets giant monsters comic, which is now available for free. I’ll let you know why you should be reading it as well as where you can find it.

Dinah Lance is a rock star in Brenden Fletcher and Annie Wu’s new BLACK CANARY ongoing series! She’s been a Justice League founder, a Bird of Prey, Oliver Queen’s wife, and possibly the best martial artist in all of the DCU. Here’s six more great Black Canary books worth checking out!

After some time off, the Artist of the Week feature is back! This week I feature the expressive Jamie McKelvie, who’s best known for his art on The Wicked + The Divine and many others. Take a look at a gallery inside and some reading recommendations.

With the release of Jurassic World this week everyone’s gone a little dino-crazy! I can’t blame them, dinosaurs are pretty cool. Luckily it’s not only the big screen that gets all the dinosaur action, comics are in on it too! Inside are 5 comics featuring dinosaurs that you should read. Each pick has it’s own flavour to these magnificent beasts and should definitely keep you on a dinosaur high after seeing Jurassic World.

After a short break from this column, the monthly comics you should read list is back! This June I showcase all kinds of comics featuring ancient dinosaurs, plants that fight zombies, everyone’s favourite space tree, a long distance relationship, 1990’s nostalgia and much more!

In June Superman’s life is getting a huge shake-up with his identity exposed, a new costume and him coming to terms with a new power which all leaves him essentially human for short periods of time. These changes will be explored in the upcoming “Truth” storylines, which will encompass Superman, Action Comics, Batman/Superman and Superman/Wonder Woman. To make this Superman event easier to digest I have created the Superman: Truth Reading Guide, which lists all the titles involved, lead-in titles, dates, creative teams and more.

In the final week of May, DC Comics have released the last batch of original sneak peek stories aimed at being new reader friendly. This week features stories for Batgirl, Black Canary, Constantine: The Hellblazer, Cyborg, Earth 2: Society, The Flash, Harley Quinn, Justice League United, Sinestro, Superman/Wonder Woman and We Are Robin.

Earlier in the month Stjepan Sejic put has put up his charming dark fantasy, Death Vigil, up online for free. The intention of doing so is to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible in order to keep the series alive, and further than the originally intended 8 issues. From there there readers can decide if they enjoyed the series and pick it up digitally or when the trade paperback comes out in July. I’m here to tell you where you can find these free issues and, hopefully, in the process help you discover what could be your new favorite comic.