Things in Squares is run by Cale as a way to stay active in web design, drawing and humour. I’d say this Magic: The Gathering / pub pick-up joke is good enough to boost the web comic’s readership.
Comic book news and discoveries
Welcome to Geek Native's hub for comic books and graphic novels. This is your portal for news and reviews from big hitters like Marvel and DC, to trailblazing indies such as Oni Press and Boom! We cover everything from the latest superhero sagas to the funniest webcomics, and we also keep an eye on the wider world of fantasy and sci-fi books. Whether you're here for dynamic panel art or a sprawling literary adventure, this is your home for storytelling. Dive in and find your next favourite.
Fear the social media followers: A review of The Kill Screen
I looked at the first issue – ILOVEYOU – of The Kill Screen back in 2014 and really liked Mike Garley’s comic book project. This wasn’t a zombie end of the world. This was a weird apocalypse in which people had become infected by some weird digital virus. Those infected seem to manifest digital pixels […]
The DC logo and strange meerkat mystery
DC Entertainment has a new logo. It designed so DC Entertainment can relevant to multimedia formats *movies, cough* and not just comic books. The page turn effect is no longer there. We should see this new logo for DC Universe: Rebirth. Here’s what DC’s Chief Creative Officer had to say; “I’m very proud that REBIRTH […]
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook covers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a name American readers might know from the NBA but as it happens Abdul-Jabbar is a Mycroft Holmes fan and back in 2015, with Anna Waterhouse, he published his first novel Mycroft Holmes. The story about Sherlock’s elder brother currently has 4.5 stars aggregate reviews over on Amazon UK. Now the polymath […]
Start your 2000 AD and Judge Dredd adventures here: A review of Prog 1973
This week’s 2000 AD is a good and useful edition. Prog 1973, which you can buy online or use one of the apps to read, is a special “jumping on” issue. All the stories in the edition are new. In other words you don’t have to go into the back issues to catch-up with the […]
The Pride hardcover collections to Kickstarter
There are gay superhero franchies but they’re hardly common and few as successful as The Pride. Joe Glass has taken to Kickstarter to put together a hardcover collection. At the time of writing there’s nearly a month left on the Kickstarter and a target of £13,000 to hit. You can follow progress here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131616880/the-pride-vol-1-hardcover-collection-lgbtq-superhe [Back […]
IDW expand DriveThruComics deal; bringing Magic, GI Joe and Transformers
IDW Publishing already has its Dungeons and Dragons Classics comic series on OneBookShelf’s DriveThruComics. They’ve now expanded that offering to include Magic: the Gathering, GI Joe and Transformers. More comics are expected to appear on the site each week. The launch as gone well with GI Joe taking the top two spots in the DriveThruComic’s […]
Billions Dead: A review of Surface Tension
Surface Tension is a graphic novel from Jay Gunn and Titan Comics. Gunn is both the author and illustrator so, straight off the bat, I’m impressed. The comic book picks up on a remote British Island after sea sickness has killed most of the people on the planet. The sea sickness was horrible; it gave […]
Pathfinder launches Humble Comics Bundle
There’s more than 30 digital comics, 20 battle maps and 2 exclusive maps in the new Humble Comics Bundle from Pazio’s Pathfinder and Dynamite. That’s about $100 worth of content which you get by paying whatever you want. At the time of writing nearly 8,500 copies have been sold. Tempted? You’ll have to be quick […]
Preview of Dark Souls #1
Dark Souls is a new comic book range to accompany the computer game title of the same name. Written by George Mann (Doctor Who) the series explore the primordial forces that govern time, visits the bonfires that flicker in the darkness and watches the undead that walk the earth. This sneak peak is from issue […]
