#dstlry comics

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The City Beneath Her Feet (2024) #1 - Variant Covers

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"A comfort, in those last few moments of life... and those first moments of death... to believe I was made to be killed like this... and not that I had earned it through my wickedness"

I'm in love with the art and the writing in The Warmth of the Hunt by E. M. Carroll

From the DSTLRY horror anthology Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering (2024)

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Time Waits #2 has some surprises but generally delivers turn off your brain action fun

Time Waits #2 has some surprises but generally delivers turn off your brain action fun #comics #comicbooks

Wyatt won’t stop until he’s had his revenge, no matter how many lives are lost in the pursuit. Who cares about anyone in the past? Blue and Grace have held off their attackers-for now-but the full militarized force at Wyatt’s disposal are more thug than soldier, and redefine relentless. Story: Chip Zdarsky, David BrothersArt: Marcus To, Marvin SianiparColor: Matt WilsonLetterer: Ariana…

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SDCC | Becky Cloonan + friends gather for the folk horror anthology ‘Come Find Me’

DSTLRY will publish the one-shot in October.

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'Somna' by Becky Cloonan.

Cover art for 'Somna' issue #1, published November 2023 by DSTLRY.

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The City Beneath Her Feet #2 by James Tynion IV, Elsa Charretier and Jordie Bellaire. Cover by Charretier. Out in January 2025.

"James Tynion IV (SPECTREGRAPH, Something is Killing the Children) and Elsa Charretier's (Room Service, Love Everlasting) bloody action/thriller love letter to New York City returns!

There are thousands of streets in New York City, and Zara will walk down each and every one of them to find out what happened to Jasper Jayne, the manic pixie dream assassin who turned her life upside down. But Zara isn't the only one driven to uncover the truth about Jasper-Liz, Jasper's former partner/bodyguard, is also on the case, and doesn't take kindly to Zara's amateur interfering…

Every issue from DSTLRY is presented in our perfect bound Prestige format, featuring wraparound covers with spot gloss on robust cover stock, complemented by 48 pages of exquisite interior stock. It's the DSTLRY difference.

For fans of STRANGERS IN PARADISE, KILL BILL, and MR. AND MRS. SMITH."

[comicsandrecords]

Somna 1-3

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The other comic I picked up this week was One For Sorrow #1. I noticed it on the shelf, then the owner of the shop recommended it. (I've shopped there for a long time, so he has a good idea of my taste in comics.) It was a good purchase. I loved this comic. The setting is London in 1900. Someone wearing a metallic mask of a bird's skull and calling themselves the Magpie is killing people who were involved in a terrible crime from years ago. It's a web of connections between spiritualists, a crime syndicate, and respectable businessmen. The spiritualism angle really sold me when I flipped through the first few pages at the shop. That's a fascinating historical phenomenon, both in how so many people were drawn to an alternative spirituality, and in the elaborate cons used to fake contact with the dead. (Some people really believed in it, and didn't treat it as a scam, and that community still exists. For some people it was more like religion, but there were a lot of cons.) The Magpie is not so much a superhero, but a very talented person bent on revenge. The spiritual angle has layers to it, but I can't talk about it without spoiling things that really shouldn't be spoiled. Suffice to say, it's very well done. And that last page is magnificent. The art is amazing. So many details, so much good body language, so many different types of faces, the clothing, the environments -- it's all drawn beautifully. The larger format (more like the square-er comics you see from France, or 2000 AD; taller and wider than the standard American comic) lets the art shine. There are also more panels per page than a typical comic, so it's not just blown up to larger dimensions, it's used as more storytelling space. This, combined with the higher number of pages (I counted 46 pages of story) makes it worth the higher price (nine bucks instead of four or five). You are getting more than two standard comics' worth of story here. All in all, a very good comic. Looking forward to the rest.

[evilhorse]

LIfe #2

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Comics from Arcane for the week of December 11, 2024: The City Beneath Her Feet 1, DC's Finest Legion of Super-Heroes Zap Goes the Legion TP, Shiver Suspenstories 1, Superwoman Special 1, Scarlet Witch 7, Black Lightning 2, Black, White, and Bloodshot 4, Action Comics 1079, Conan the Barbarian 17, Green Lantern 7 (discovered I never picked this up when it came out), Green Lantern 18, Space Ghost 8, The Uncanny X-Men 7, FML 2, From the World of Minor Threats: The Brood 1, and The Powerpuff Girls 6.

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Somna

Art by Becky Cloonan

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Some of the incredible variant covers for Spectregraph #2 (2024) by Anwita Citriya, Christian Ward, Jae Lee & E. M. Carroll (in order)

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DSTLRY reveals a Jae Lee cover for Spectregraph #2 and Sweeney Boo cover for Blasfamous #3

DSTLRY reveals a Jae Lee cover for Spectregraph #2 and Sweeney Boo cover for Blasfamous #3 #comics #comicbooks

DSTLRY has revealed two open-order variant covers, the first cover arrives courtesy superstar artist Jae Lee for Spectregraph #2, the psychedelic haunted house epic from James Tynion IV and Christian Ward. This sophomore issue follows real estate agent Janie Chase as she discovers more of the lurid horrors and history of a mansion with an insidious machine at its heart.The second cover by Sweeney…

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Out this week: Somna Cover Gallery (DSTLRY, $10): 

Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay’s Eisner-winning series had many variant covers, which DSTLRy collects here in a single volume.

See what else is landing in your local comic shop this week!

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'Somna Triptych' by Tula Lotay.

12" x 22.5" archival pigment print on 290gsm cotton rag paper, in a numbered TIMED Release edition.

On sale until Wednesday April 17 through DSTLRY.

(Image edited for social media)

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Through Red Windows #1 by Ram V and Joëlle Jones. Covers by Jones. Out in October.

"One of the hottest writers in comics, RAM V (The One Hand, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr) teams up with artist extraordinaire Joëlle Jone (Catwoman, Lady Killer) to tell a modern horror story that will leave you guessing until the bitter end! When ailing Plutocrat, Harlan Roderick, invites his young protégé Athul Laal to live at Roderick Place in downtown Manhattan, what Athul believes this to be his first step into the inner circle of the world's elite, soon turns into a living nightmare. Athul discovers that Harlan and his illness are inextricably connected to the 73-story building, in which, behind each door, lie secrets and monsters from both Harlan and Athul's own lives. Laal's ambition gets the better of him and the higher he climbs in the company (and the building!) the deeper and darker becomes the danger to his life…. and maybe his soul. THROUGH RED WINDOWS is a pulse-pounding thriller loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe but with a very modern twist. Not for the faint of heart! Every single issue from DSTLRY is presented in our perfect bound Prestige format, featuring wraparound covers with spot gloss on robust cover stock, complemented by 48 pages of exquisite interior stock. It's the DSTLRY difference. For fans of WALL STREET, SUCCESSION, THE GAME, and CHANNEL ZERO."