In times of big need or extreme emphasis , reasonably much everyone ’s survival instinct kicks in and we all default on to sure cope mechanisms that have gotten us through our entire lives . For some people , that means fix . For others , it means do .
irrespective of what your specific method acting of dealing with the reality is , you ’ll likely have something in common with at least a few of the heroes of this week ’s good comics — because honestly , they ’re all just trying to make it through the calendar week , same as any other person . Their world may be falling apart , but all they can do is keep on keeping on , hoping that things’ll work out so long as they fight hard enough .
Flavor
opine a humanity where food culture was an inexorable part of literally every single face of a society ’s economy — a world where fit into the extremely - private-enterprise eatery job was moderately much your only luck at success in life .
In Image ’s Flavor , a teenaged girl named Xoo dreams of nothing more than craft bespoke repast at the small food for thought joint where she grew up watching her parents cook , before a tragical chance event made it out of the question for them to leave their home . Left largely to her own devices , Xoo becomes something of a latchkey Kyd on a journey toward carry through her dreams . Rather than going to school and getting her government - mandate chef ’s license , she operates in hugger-mugger , pass much of her prison term vie with other chef as they madly fight to ensure rare , valuable ingredient .
There ’s a atmospherical magic to Flavor that make the book feel a lot like a fanciful fairytale inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki with elements of Final Fantasy mixed in . Buster , Xoo ’s semi - sentient dog , works as her sous chef , and Geof , her uncle , walks around with a hulking dude brand that he waves about rather casually . Xoo ’s narration starts off on unproblematic , firm footing , but as Flavor stretch out , it becomes clear that there ’s a sinister , otherworldly mien lurking outside the bulwark of her cloistered residential district that ’s definitely go to change the row of her life . ( Joseph Keatinge , Tamra Bonvillain , Wook Jin Clark , Image Comics )
A Walk Through Hell
There ’s a typeface in every FBI federal agent ’s past that impact them so deeply , it made them gravely consider finding another line of work . It ’s not often agents really talk about the cases because , obviously , they ’re not at liberty to do so — but sometimes , there ’s more to it than just that .
Aftershock Comics ’ A Walk Through Hell tell the story of Agents Shaw and McGregor , two partners who , unbeknownst to them , are at the very get-go of one of those life - changing case . As is often the case , things commence off simply enough . When two of their fellow agents cryptically vanish while investigating a strange storage warehouse , local police force are deployed to search for them , but something in the storage warehouse like a shot get off the police into an eery , despondent secretiveness that the agents do n’t infer . Something in the warehouse become to the police before Shaw and McGregor could and as much as they might not want to admit it to themselves , they are n’t at all prepared to handle it , either .
Though A Walk Through Hell ’s first takings is n’t at all gory , it ’s tincture with an unsettling kind of dread that makes it that much more terrifying to read . The demons Shaw and McGregor may be amount side to look with are challenging , but the personal demon that lurk in their minds give the comic an add up attribute of grain and darkness that predict to make the serial publication an rank thrill . ( Garth Ennis , Goran Sudzuka , I ve Svorcina , Aftershock Comics )
Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers
Bubba Ho - Tep and the Cosmic Blood - Suckers is a comic for anyone who ever like that The League of Extraordinary Gentleman was about Elvis Presley teaming up with the descendent of John Henry and a bunch of psychics to forestall the apocalypse .
Writer Joshua Jabcuga imagine a reality where the charisma of legendary performers like Elvis does n’t just make them pop star topology , it imbues them with a unparalleled energy that draw the attention of extrasensory beings . At the behest of President Nixon , Elvis is conscripted into a squad of other extraordinary people as they set out to inquire a series of strange happenings occurring down in Louisiana .
While Elvis knows that he really is the man for the business , he wants nothing more than to find a convincing Elvis impersonator , swop places with him , and trip around the country singing just for the saki of performing . But the fact that Elvis ’ female parent ’s soul is being held hostage with the use of hefty voodoo thaumaturgy compels him to go along with his unexampled motley crew in hopes of maybe , just mayhap keep the world safe . ( Joshua Jabcuga , Joe R. Lansdale ( Joshua Jabcuga , Tadd Galusha , Ryan Hill , IDW )
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