Category: Image

Written by Lawrence Miles
Pencilled by Jim Calafiore
Inked by Peter Palmiotti
32 pages, color
Published by Image Comics

Have you ever felt like you had an unfair advantage? That’s the impression I got when I picked up Faction Paradox #1 from Image Comics. Unlike most of the readers, I suspect, I’d actually read author Lawrence Miles’s novels that first introduced the time-travelling voodoo cultists of the Faction (Alien Bodies, Interference), so I had a good idea of what to expect. For anyone else, though… I’m not sure this is at all what they’d expect.

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By Mark Wheatley
32 pages, color
Published by Image Comics

I think the first time I really took register of Mark Wheatley’s work in comics was when he created the original Radical Dreamer series. Each issue folded out into a gigantic map-sized poster, with gorgeous painted colors and imaginative alien worlds and technology swirling around the page. It’s been a little frustrating, then, to see so much of his art lately in black and white; thankfully, that particular void in my life is about to be filled with Wheatley’s new Image series The Frankenstein Mobster.

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Written by Marc Andreyko
Art by Scott Morse
32 pages, color
Published by Image Comics

When is a gimmick not a gimmick? In the case of writing, it’s when using it accentuates the storytelling ability instead of distracting from it. That’s the case Marc Andreyko and Scott Morse’s work on Case Files: Sam & Twitch. What might’ve been misused in lesser hands ends up being an extra kick to a good story by both creators.

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By Will Dixon
48 pages, black and white
Published by Image Comics

With smaller-formatted comics taking bookstores by storm, it’s easy to see why publishers would want a piece of the action for themselves. Japanese manga in particular is a hot line of books that’s flying off the shelves, so left and right we’re seeing new products trying to emulate that same tone. The problem is, not all attempts are created equal…

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Written by Arvid Nelson
Art by Eric Johnson
32 pages, color
Published by Image Comics

It’s fun to think, “What if…?” with world history. What if things went slightly differently? What if the church had never lost its power? What if America ended up being permanently divided into two countries? What if sorcery existed as a tangible force in society? What sets Rex Mundi apart from other books, then, is that it’s not content to simply gaze at an alternate history of the world. Instead, it’s just the backdrop for an even bigger story…

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Written by Douglass Barre
Art by Jiro
32 pages, color
Published by Image Comics

The Victorian Era has always been a popular time period for science-fiction. This could be in part because of Jules Verne’s novels, which in many ways planted the seeds for modern science-fiction. With comics like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen high in popularity, it’s not a surprise to see more and more comics in this era like Mythstalkers showing up. The real question is, when the charm of the setting wears off, how is the work itself?

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