#Chris Roberson

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Out this week: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 (Dark Horse, $3.99):

Chris Roberson, Mike Mignola, Mike Norton and Dave Stewrat are back for another chapter of Hellboy and the BPRD’s time in 1957, as they investigate an abandoned sawmill that is rumored to be haunted.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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Dark Horse reveals three frightful releases for 2024

Dark Horse reveals three frightful releases for 2024 #comics #comicbooks #horror

Horror fans beware, new horror volumes lurk in the distance. What are these terrifying tales Dark Horse Books has to offer? Check out this latest list of horror titles available for preorder from your local bookstore or comic shop now! Mortal Terror Volume 1 HC A vampire-flipped Dracula in which mortality means life…and life means death. Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and Peter Bergting, the…

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The Crimson Avenger, Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne by Travel Foreman

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Another superb mini-series from Mike Mignola featuring Hellboy in his younger years at the BPRD.

This time its 1955 and there's more supernatural skullduggery afoot!

Hellboy & the BPRD - Occult Intelligence by Mike Mignola + Chris Roberson with art by Brian Churilla.

Covers by Paolo Rivera.

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"Gaslight Grimoire" series, including the works of many authors, edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec

"Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes," "Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes," "Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes," and "Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes."

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Discussing Panya: The Mummy's Curse with Chris Roberson

Chris Roberson and I did a deep dive into Panya: The Mummy's Curse. I really enjoyed this one.

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HELLBOY: THE SILVER LANTERN CLUB no.5 • cover art • Christopher Mitten • Mike Mignola [Mar 2022]

When Hellboy and the Professor face a dead-end in their supernatural investigations, Simon Bruttenholm offers inspiration in the form of a tale of when the combined forces of the entire Silver Lantern club were required to defeat a strange occult endeavor!

(words) Mike Mignola & Chris Roberson (art) Christopher Mitten & Ben Stenbeck (colorist) Dave Stewart & Michelle Madsen (cover art) Christopher Mitten & Mike Mignola

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I, Zombie! in House of Mystery Annual #1, written by Chris Roberson, art by Michael Allred

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Blade Runner: Dust to dust (polvo al polvo)

¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas mecánicas?

Do androids dream of electric sheeps?

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Out this week: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1957: Fearful Symmetry (Dark Horse, $3.99):

This is the third of five one-shots featuring Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. set in the year 1957, each written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson and featuring different artist. Artist Alison Sampson, with Dave Stewart on colors, helps tell the story of Hellboy’s trip to India to investigate “a rash of mysterious animal attacks” plaguing a small village.

Wanna know what other comics and graphic novels will arrive at your local comic shops this week? Then this is the link you want to click.

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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D - 1957: From Below

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Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #1

by Chris Roberson; Shawn McManus; Lee Loughridge and Todd Klein

DC/Vertigo

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Eric mentioning this series in our last episode makes me wanna head back and read it all again! If you haven’t read iZOMBIE by Chris Roberson, Mike Allred & Laura Allred then it’s about time you treated yourself! I’ve never crushed on the undead so bad… (that’s not weird is it? Damn, it IS, isn’it?)

Featured Cover Art:

iZOMBIE #7, 19, 13, 3, 26 (2010-2012)

Gwen Dylan is a gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery…and a zombie detective.

Once a month, she has to eat a human brain – both to keep from going all "Night of the Living Dead," and to keep her own memories intact. As a result, Gwen's mind is crowded with the dead person's thoughts. And lately, she feels compelled to fulfill their final requests. 

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The Dragon's Nine Sons - Chris Roberson

Reread: Sep 2023

When I first found this book I was so enamoured with the world building. It's such a fun prospect. Basically it's an Earth that has Imperial China as the main world power. A world conquering power, and when China reaches North America the Aztecs are not having it. It all comes down to China and Mexica as the last remaining superpowers. So that was Earth, now we sci-fi this bitch and go to Mars and that's where this story starts - the war on Mars between the two powers. It's a fun premise.

Now the story is a military misfits about to be drummed out, sent on a suicide mission type of story. The story doesn't really paint that flattering a picture of the Celestial Empire (China), despite all the main characters being Chinese (nationally, not ethnically). I liked that, I wasn't prepared to accept glowing looks at an interplanetary empire. But to be clear China is completely painted as "the good guys" here. Unfortunate, but what's more unfortunate is the way the Aztecs are treated. They are depicted as "those cunning barbarians." Their technology runs only with blood sacrifice! Which seems so impractical, like their spaceships literally do not start without a whole human sacrifice. It's so beyond that I was just completely turned off. How I got by this the first time I read it idk. How is an advanced society having to kill a person every time they need a spaceship for an interplanetary war against a bigger enemy?? The need to capture prisoners becomes so intense and if no prisoners they have to kill their own? Seems like a quick way to lose the war in my opinion. I couldn't get behind it. The level of "blood thirsty savages" painted on them just popped the bubble of my enjoyment. I think it was the contrast between the realness of the sci fi things, space travel, weapons, etc., and the overblown drama of villainy.

All this aside the actual narrative was fun. Like a military sci fi heist. I still enjoyed that aspect and I'm glad I read it again. But I will probably not pick it up again.

Info: Solaris; 2008