This review is long overdue. I wish I had read this issue a lot sooner because it is just a great conclusion to the first volume of the series. Let’s just say that I don’t regret picking Sink as my best comic of last year, it finishes strong with the fifth issue and manages to highlight all the great things about the series in the process.
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Independent publisher ComixTribe (SINK, Oxymoron) debuts its newest series, WAILING BLADE, at Emerald City Comic Con, with an exclusive ashcan preview of issue #1, limited to 100 copies.
Writer Rich Douek (IDW's Gutter Magic) and artist Joe Mulvey (SCAM) team with heavy hitters Christopher Sotomayor (Avengers, Incredible Hulk) on colors and Taylor Esposito (DC) on letters, to tell a tale of mankind’s struggle against tyranny in a future dark age.
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At the end of every year, we roll out our list of the best and worst comics. It’s a tricky thing because where do you draw the line. Some titles have completed, while others are just starting, but show fantastic promise. There is a time in the past in which I picked a book for one of my best of choices that had just started, and while that first issue or so were great, the series quickly tapered off. Since then I like to give a series a few more under the belt before putting them on my list.
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If I wanted to, I could name two movies and infer that Sink is in several ways the love child of the two movies and it would be enough to convince you of not only the quality but the excitement that is Sink. I could do that, but we’re talking about a comic, and quite frankly I have never read anything like Sink before. Perhaps I’ll tell you the name of the movies at the end of the review, and if you’re so inclined, you can jump to the end and call it a day. If you stay, well then that means you must love comics and are dying to know about ComixTribe’s newest title.
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I'll be honest; I thought Sink was already out. Sometimes I'm lost in the bubble of the inside baseball that is the site, and so I don't know when anything releases. That said, you should fucking pick this book up. If you need more convincing, then read the preview or my reviews for the first three issues below. To give you an idea of how damn good Sink is, it's in the running for my best book of the year.
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I told you I would be back for this review. Sink is by far one of the best series I’ve read this year. It is not for the faint of heart as the violence is at times horrific. It is almost as if John Lees is carving out a new style of horror, a style that’s frightening realistic and yet not in a throwback way. It’s not like Rob Zombie’s movies in which you have to ignore any sense of modernism and transport yourself to a bygone era. No, instead it’s insanely realistic and modern making it just so frightening. Also, goddamn clowns, not in this issue, but in general.
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Fear not, there’s a review for the second issue of Sink coming, but as the creator and writer John Lees informed me, each issue of Sink is standalone. It’s all tied together in the same world, but they’re standalone stories depicting different dark aspects of this one hellish town. I will say this, don’t get in the van. The comic will tell you to get in the van but don’t you fucking dare. No one wants to get into that thing.
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If I wanted to, I could name two movies and infer that Sink is in several ways the love child of the two movies and it would be enough to convince you of not only the quality but the excitement that is Sink. I could do that, but we’re talking about a comic, and quite frankly I have never read anything like Sink before. Perhaps I’ll tell you the name of the movies at the end of the review, and if you’re so inclined, you can jump to the end and call it a day. If you stay, well then that means you must love comics and are dying to know about ComixTribe’s newest title.
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For years, creators have likened Kickstarter to a 30-day online comic convention.
This week, one publisher is taking that anaology one step further, by adding a popular comic convention staple -- the Horror in Comics Panel -- to a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Read MoreRecently creator Joe Mulvey successfully kickstarted Mummy’s Always Right, which is of course a play on words of “Mom’s always right.” Which is the gist of this kid’s book written and illustrated by Mulvey. The catch, of course, is the inclusion of classic monsters which is a great touch since it introduces a new generation to the creatures, but keeps from being scary. To put it another way, your kid isn’t going to grow up afraid of mummy’s after reading this book.
Mulvey’s story is pretty straightforward. It’s a series of events Gaws’ day in which he’s taught to do the right things. Each page is basically a big splash page and one action after another. It works, it’s a kids book style and the only thing I would say is that it’s a little long and the message is really hammered home. Kids… listen to your mom.
The artwork is really good. I personally dig Mulvey’s style and always have since his other creator owned series Scam. His style works for the story and it’s actually quite nice to see a full page dedicated to his art. The backgrounds are rich and full because of this. The character designs are classic and yet distinct. You know who everyone is, but they all have Mulvey’s unique design. In a way it’s like Muppet Babies meets Universals classic monsters.
Parents can feel at ease checking this out. It’s not gruesome, it’s not an ironic kids book actually meant for adults. It’s just a uniquely themed kids book that you can share together and hopefully there will be more in the future.
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Mummy’s Always Right Creator: Joe Mulvey Publisher: ComixTribe Price: $15.00 Format: TPB; Print
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