Tag: Comic

Give Me Liberty: An American Dream (1990)

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Give Me Liberty is a four-issue mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics in 1990. It was created and written by Frank Miller and drawn by Dave Gibbons. The title of the series comes from a famous quotation by Patrick Henry: “I know not what course others may take but — as for me — give me liberty or give me death.”

Give Me Liberty was one of Frank Miller’s two creator-owned (the other was Hard Boiled) titles he took to Dark Horse after deciding to stop working for DC Comics after a dispute over a proposed ratings system.

The story is set in a dystopian near-future where the United States have split into several extremist factions, and tells the story of Martha Washington, a young American girl from a public housing project called “The Green” (see Chicago‘s Cabrini–Green). The series starts with Martha’s birth and sees her slowly grow up from someone struggling to break free of the public housing project, to being a war hero and major figure in deciding the fate of the United States.

The series was a mix of Miller’s typical action sequences as well as being a political satire of the United States and its major corporations. The series proved to be a huge success for Dark Horse and was one of the biggest selling independent comics of the time. A trade paperback was later released and Miller followed up Give Me Liberty with several sequels continuing the story. All of these sequels were drawn by Dave Gibbons and published by Dark Horse.

Venus Domina (1996)

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Venus Domina is not your ordinary Dominatrix. Her story is both bizarre and astounding. Duke Mighten provides
the interior art and a beautiful cover by Dave Stevens graces the first issue.

Justice League Dark V2 (2018)

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In March 2018, a new volume of Justice League Dark was announced. Spinning out of the “Justice League: No Justice” storyline, the title debuted in June 2018 and is written James Tynion IV and drawn by Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez and Brad Anderson. The team  features Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Man-Bat, and Detective Chimp, and will be led by Wonder Woman. Additional magical characters from the DC Universe are also expected to appear in the series.

Gears of War (2008)

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Epic Games and DC Comics announced on April 17, 2008, that a comic book based on Gears of War will be published. The comic is published under DC’s Wildstorm imprint and is written by Joshua Ortega, with art by Liam Sharp. The first storyline “Hollow” ran from Gears of War #1-6 and was followed by “The Quickening” with pencils by Simon Bisley and inks by Henry Flint. Sharp, Flint, Joel Gomez and Trevor Hairsine provided the art for the single issue “Harper’s Story” in issue #8, before Sharp returned for the multi-issue storyline “Barren” starting in Gears of War #9.

Dead No More – The Clone Conspiracy (2016)

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“Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy” is a 2016 – 2017 Marvel Comics storyline starring Spider-Man. The story was notable for bringing long-dead Spider-Man supporting character Ben Reilly back to life. The storyline later led Reilly to reclaim the heroic Scarlet Spider mantle and appearing in his own comic book series.

Magic Comics (1939)

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Magic Comics was published by David McKay Company from 1939 to 1949. The series was a compilation of newspaper strip reprints such as “Mandrake the Magician“, “Inspector Wade”, “Henry”, “Jan and Aloysius”, “Popeye”, “Secret Agent X-9”, “The Lone Ranger” and “Blondie”.

Grimm Tales of Terror (2020’s)

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Grimm Fairy Tales is a dark fantasy comic book series by Zenescope Entertainment that presents classic fairy tales, albeit with modern twists or expanded plots. It began publication in June 2005.

Black Magic – DC (1973)

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In 1973–1975, DC Comics published a nine-issue series reprinting Simon–Kirby material from the earlier series.[2] The new incarnation featured new covers with the same logo as the earlier issues of the Prize series. The reprint issues generally grouped the stories by theme; for example, all the stories in issue #1 dealt with intolerance toward human oddities, while all the stories in #4 were about death.

The Final NIght (1996)

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The Final Night was a 1996 crossover storyline published by DC Comics that ran through a weekly self-titled limited series and a score of tie-in issues spanning most of DC’s ongoing titles in the month of September 1996 (cover-dated November 1996). It featured the Justice League of America, several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes and more than two dozen allied heroes, villains and scientists of the DC Universe banding together in the face of global calamity when an extraterrestrial entity called the Sun-Eater envelopes and extinguishes the Sun, causing Earth to freeze and wither into ecological collapse.

Unlike other crossover events published by DC, the conflict of The Final Night did not revolve around a conventional villain. It was primarily a story of survival that focused on the main characters performing disaster response, while attempting to prevent impending mass extinction of all life on Earth. At the end of each issue was an in-story website feature written by S.T.A.R. Labs, giving information updates and emergency support to residents of the DC Universe as the crisis progressed.

The storyline is notable in DC canon for the death and disputed redemption of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, whose character at the time had been transformed into the villainous Parallax. Jordan’s character was later restored to life and to his role as Earth’s Green Lantern in the 2004 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth.

Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (2004)

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This free, but rare, comic is the only part of the Clone Wars Adventures series published in comic book form the rest of the series was published in graphic novels. Given out on 2004 Free Comic Book Day for a limited release it’s very hard to find! It’s the very beginning of the Clone Wars Adventures saga.