Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List: Monstress, Brooklyn Animal Control, and InSEXts!

It’s Wednesday, and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (and preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more! Monstress #2 Written by Marjorie Liu Art Read More …

Your Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List: Twice the Transformers!

It’s Wednesday, and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (and preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more! Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers #1 Written Read More …

Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List: Jem and the Holograms and I Hate Fairyland!

It’s Wednesday, and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (and preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more!   I Hate Fairyland #1 Story and Read More …

Your Deadshirt New Comics Shopping List for: September 30th, 2015

It’s Wednesday, and that means new comics. Let Deadshirt steer your wallet in the right direction with reviews (and preview pages) of titles out today from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Archie, MonkeyBrain, Oni, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Action Lab, and more! Zodiac Starforce #2 Written by Kevin Panetta Read More …

Tom Scioli and the Scale and Appeal of IDW’s Transformers vs. G.I. Joe [Interview]

At last weekend’s Small Press Expo, Deadshirt comics editor Max Robinson sat down with writer-artist Tom Scioli (AdHouse Books’ American Barbarian, Image’s Gødland) to discuss his latest project, Transformers vs. G.I. Joe from IDW. MR: Before you got started on the book, I would see Read More …

Otheredbots: Windblade and the Issue of Gender Representation in The Transformers

 Female Autobots?  I thought they were extinct! – Shockwave, “The Search for Alpha Trion” (aired 1985) The problem began very early. Hasbro had enlisted Bob Budiansky, a prolific writer and editor at Marvel Comics, to provide profiles and backstory to a series of toys they Read More …

More Than Meets the Eye #4 and 5: “Life after the Big Bang” and “How Ratchet Got His Hands Back”

Ratchet: I know this guy. His name was Prowl. Drift: Prowl? Ratchet: Not THE Prowl, obviously. This Prowl changed his name to…Dent, I think, to avoid confusion. Drift: Dent? He called himself Dent? As in—as in DENT? Ratchet: Yeah, well, all the best names are Read More …