"Somewhere out in space live the Herculoids..."---spoken word intro to The Herculoids, 1967.
Nearly 60 years later, Dynamite has added The Herculoids to their WB line of titles, after appearing in DC's Future Quest Presents a few years back. Writer Tom Snegnoski and artist Craig Brusseau are the creative team on the series, and you can see right away that Brusseau, in particular, is paying tribute to Alex Toth, who designed the Herculoids back in 1967.
It looks as though they'll go with the done-in-one format of the TV show, at least for now, in contrast to Space Ghost, which is using a story arc format common in today's comics. Personally, I wouldn't mind having 90's legend Joseph Michael Linsner, who is contributing variant covers, do some interiors to help Brusseau.
Rating: A-.
DC's recently launched Compact Comics gives a new meaning to the concept of trade paperbacks.
Take, for example, the recently released Wonder Woman: Earth One volume, which collects all three graphic novels by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette. Sure, the price is about the same as your standard TPB or graphic novel, but in a smaller size, hence the name, "Compact Comics".
Paquette is emulating the style of the late George Perez with his work here. As for Morrison, well, we will forgive the cosmetic changes made to Steve Trevor (flipped to African American) and Dr. Psycho isn't vertically challenged, unlike his traditional appearance. I'd keep this away from rabid right wing idiots who have a grudge against the LGBTQ+ community, though.
Rating: A-.
Filmmaker & fanboy Kevin Smith is returning to comics with 2 projects.
First, he's bringing Jay & Silent Bob to Riverdale to meet Archie in a 1-off due in July. On top of that, it's been reported that Smith is scripting a Spider-Man/Fantastic Four team-up for a giant-size Amazing Spider-Man volume, due sometime this summer.
There will be a pool on whether or not Smith keeps his deadlines on both.
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