One of my favorite comics of 2025 was Mad Cave Studios' ORLA! After a few weeks without new comics, I made into the shop on Wednesday and I got my hands on issues 4 and 5 this week.
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ORLA # 4+5 wraps up this awesome series just in time for Valentine’s Day!
One of my favorite comics of 2025 was Mad Cave Studios' ORLA! After a few weeks without new comics, I made into the shop on Wednesday and I got my hands on issues 4 and 5 this week.
It's a mermaid thing, fam. 🐬 You wouldn't understand.
Anybody interested in a mermaid comic? I've been sitting on a script since late 2016. But before we talk about that, here's a thing I drew for Inktober...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the mighty LANCE TOOKS!
Sisters with natural hair on the cover of Bob Fingerman's MINIMUM WAGE #5 you say?
Hilarious romantic comedy "The Dog Years" is back! Peep a preview here!
Here's a couple trailers for wrestling/romance anime KICK-HEART!!!
KICKSTART THIS- "Kick-Heart" (Romance + Wrestling + Secrets = YES)
Preview- Love & Capes:What to Expect #3
PREVIEW- "Girl&Boy" a Vigilante Romance Comic by Andrew Tunney
Start the day off Right with Mi(ni)ster Blakes
(P)REVIEW: "A Smart Black Boy: The Sonic Inception" by Blctxt Contxt
start the day off Right w/Bavu Blakes
Couple Multiple Warheads preview pages...
Peter David and Kyle Baker tackle Cyrano!
do the LADIES run this Mutha..?
Black Cat, Hellcat, Firestar and Photon (aka Captain Marvel aka Monica "I used to be in the Avengers" Rambeau) team up to be four times fantastic in Marvel Divas. i just read the 7 page preview over at CBR, and it's hilarious! here's the sales pitch:Diva (dee-vah), noun: An unusually glamorous and powerful woman. See: Patsy "Hellcat" Walker; Felicia "Black Cat" Hardy; Angelica "Firestar" Jones; and Monica "Photon" Rambeau. What happens when you take four of the Marvel Universe's most fabulous single girls and throw them together, adding liberal amounts of suds and drama? You get the sassiest, sexiest, soapiest series to come out of the House of Ideas since Millie the Model! Romance, action, ex-boyfriends, and a last page that changes everything! Let your inner divas out with this one, fellas, you won't regret it!
yeah, so anyways, if you haven't already, click the pic and go read it. go ahead, i'll wait...
wasn't that FRESH!? the art by Tonci Zonjic is very natural. the women look like individuals, not typical comicbook mannequins, and the settings all work nicely! Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's script is snarky, quick-witted, and well paced! i'd say give this joint a try! Marvel Divas drops in comics shops on July 1st.
holla!
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Bow to the WOW!
if you're in the mood for a romantic comedy that's heavier on the comedy than the romance, check out a hilarious comic called The Dog Years! when Trey, a twenty something toy designer, suffers a catastrophic break-up from his slightly overbearing (and more than slightly hot) fiance, his boys swoop in, determined to stop the pity-party before it even starts. once he hooks up with his boy, the crazy-as-hell dread Rasheed, you know something's about to jump off!
Writer/Artist Drayonis has created a prototype for a great cable show with a cast of characters any sitcom would be happy to have. The art is strong and he writes with a good balance of dating philosphy and comedy that's not afraid to be raunchy when appropriate. the main character's boys seem stereotypical at times, but each one finds his own voice. although the book spends a lotta time on the boys' attempts to drag Trey over to the dark side, the book offers ample coverage of the women's side of the battle of the sexes too! with all the comedy and sexual punch this book flaunts (Drayonis sure can draw some fine women... DAMN!), it also has some effective depth, which was a pleasant surprise. while we can expect to see the books printed eventually, Drayonis has 5 issues (with #6 on the way) of The Dog Years available to read free online... i suggest you do so, and feel free to let us know what you think!holla!
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From Good, to Bad, to REALLY Bad!
okay, so i finally got my hands on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe, volume 5 of the series by Bryan Lee O'malley. for those just joining us, Scott Pilgrim revolves around the social life of it's twenty-something title character and his adorable supporting cast. it's a lot like Charlie Brown, but with more sex and fight scenes. Its unique blend of action, romance, slice-of-life and humor is-like the immortal Slinky- fun for both girls and boys.
so anyways, similar to vol 3, Scott Pilgrim Vs The Universe is much, much darker than the uparching Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (for which O'Malley snagged ghettoManga Cartoonist of the Year and OGN of the Year in 2008)... O'Malley meticulously takes apart the good vibes Scott and Ramona brought into this issue from the last volume. the pressures of moving in together would be hard enough on them, but now the unspoken circumstances of Ramona's breakup with evil-exboyfriend Gideon are casting a shadow over Scott and Ramona's future... and did i mention Scott has to repeatedly battle the Katayanagi Twins and their increasingly tough Robots? yeah, there's that too... 
The Darker tone of this volume makes it less fun to read than the last one, but it's still top notch. Scott's repeated references to Clairemont-era X-men storylines echo the concept of this volume that things get much worse before they get better. Even when Scott vanquishes the Twins, there's little cause to celebrate because of... well, you get the idea!when this volume ends, the stage is set for the ultimate battle with Gideon, so you probably wanna read all five previous joints so you can be ready to complete the collection when volume 6 drops!
holla!
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the New Moon is upon us!
ghettoManga Cartoonist of the Year for 2007 Ross Campbell returns with the next chapter of his opus OGN series Wet Moon. in Wet Moon 4:Drowned in Evil, 
Campbell returns us once again to the sticky southern town of Wet Moon, where we will witness forbidden romance, secret pasts, adventures in babysitting, and a masked vigilante makes her first appearance. Wet Moon 4: Drowned In Evil hits stores tomorrow, November 12 in fine comic shops and book stores everywhere, or you can order the next installment of this splendid graphic novel series here
. "thanks to everyone who's pre-ordered it already, i really appreciate it!!" says the author "volume 4 is where things start to get crazier for everyone, and things begin to take a dark turn..." IF you have still never read it (despite my constant recommendations!), cop Wet-Moon: Feeble Wanderings here.uno.
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shoot for the Moon
ghettoManga Award-winning comic book creator Ross Campbell returns with the next chapter his opus OGN series Wet Moon. in Wet Moon 4:Drowned in Evil, Campbell returns us once again to the sticky southern town of Wet Moon, where we will witness forbidden romance, secret pasts, adventures in babysitting, and a masked vigilante makes her first appearance. preoder the next installment of this splendid graphic novel series here. IF you have still never read it (despite my constant recommendations!), cop Wet-Moon: Feeble Wanderings here.uno.
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