MFR Newsletter 11/13/2020 — You're going to Camp Blood, ain't ya?
Happy Friday the 13th, comics fans! EIC Anthony here, warning you to stay away from that there camp. It’s got a death curse, don’t ya know!
There’s still time to back MONKEYS FIGHTING ROBOTS: THE MAGAZINE #2 + TALES OF MFR #2!
We have a little over two weeks left in our Kickstarter campaign, so there’s still plenty of time to get in on the action! We’re funding both MFR: The Magazine #2 AND Tales of MFR #2 together, so you’re getting twice twice the face-melting sequel goodness.
Tales of MFR is the comic strip by Jamie Jones and Matt Sardo that you can usually find at the end of this newsletter. The war between monkeys and robots has raged on for eons; these are the stories that have survived.
And then MFR: The Magazine is a collection of editorials and opinion pieces written by our incredible writing staff, as well as comics by some of our favorite indie creators!
You can check out the Kickstarter by clicking right here, and please be sure to share it with your comics-loving friends and family! These books are a total labor of love put together by people who simply love comics and want to celebrate them.
And thank you all for your continued support of all things MFR!
Review: REDFORK & The Horror Brought To Impoverished Hills
My copy of REDFORK is on its way, but reviewer Justin Munday got to take a look at the book already and calls it a “genuinely unnerving horror comic.”
Interview: Adam Hughes Talks Hellboy And The Elements Of Horror
Matt Sardo and Zac Owens interviewed the amazing Adam Hughes about the latest HELLBOY one-shot, and some of Adam’s responses here are among the best I’ve read in an interview. Zac also reviewed the issue.
Comics Studies: It’s All in the Bias
Darryll Robson continues his editorial series on Comics Studies, this time discussing how bias factors into it.
BLUE IN GREEN – The Great American Horror Graphic Novel
AJ O. Mason reviewed BLUE IN GREEN, the new OGN from Image that has been getting widespread critical acclaim.
Review: BARBALIEN: RED PLANET #1 Balances Truth with Subtlety
I love the BLACK HAMMER universe! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m so happy we’re getting all of these spinoffs. Zac Owens covers the latest debut, in stores next week.
Review: MISKATONIC #1 Where The FBI Face Lovecraftian Horrors
Darryll Robson reviewed the premiere issue of MISKATONIC, a Lovecraft-inspired series from AfterShock, and calls it “addictive storytelling from the get go.”
Interview: Rylend Grant On PEACEKEEPERS, The State Of Comics, & How Poker Prepared Him To Be A Writer
I interviewed writer Rylend Grant on his new book THE PEACEKEEPERS, which is getting ready to close out its Kickstarter campaign. Rylend is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever spoken to in comics — I can’t wait to interview him again and dig even deeper into his life and career.
I bought TALES FROM THE DEAD ASTRONAUT after Manny Gomez interviewed writer Jonathan Thompson for MFR, and it is a radical delight. It’s an anthology featuring three very different cosmic stories, all tied together by a dead astronaut drifting through space. The whole book is illustrated by Jorge Luis Gabotto, who shows incredible range over the course of the three tales.
This anthology epitomizes what I love about indie comics: It’s creators coming together, telling weird stories that they couldn’t tell anywhere else, telling them with tons of passion, and putting them out into the world themselves. You can get your own copy of TALES FROM THE DEAD ASTRONAUT over on Thompson’s website Space Station Zed for $4. Four dollars!
I also read the first issue of Donny Cates, Dylan Burnett, Dean White and John J. Hill’s new series THE ONE YOU FEED on Panel Syndicate, and I’m very interested in seeing where this story goes.
Hundred of years ago, for unknown reasons, the sun went down one night and every person on Earth turned into monsters. Now, the young prince of a kingdom that lives in eternal daylight must venture out into the night to face these demons (and presumably the demon inside himself as well).
Donny Cates has become known as a “Marvel Guy” — the “VENOM Guy” — but, as much as I enjoy his mainstream work, I think there was something even more special about his earlier indie work, and THE ONE YOU FEED is very reminiscent of that era of Cates’ writing. It’s much more GOD COUNTRY/REDNECK/BABYTEETH than it is VENOM/THANOS/COSMIC GHOST RIDER. It’s a singular, intimate, personal story, and it features a big-ass sword with an epic-sounding name. Check out the first issue and see if it tickles your fancy like it tickled mine.
COMIC STRIP • TALES OF MFR #73 + #74
Got not one, but TWO comic strips for you this week!
Catch up on the series here: TALES OF MFR
The war between monkeys and robots has raged on for eons; these are the stories that have survived. With art by Jamie Jones and the occasional words by Matt Sardo, Tales of MFR hits the web every Sunday.
For more reviews, interviews, and “Legends of the Longbox”, head over to the website to see what the team’s been working on this week:
That’s all for now! Remember: Darkseid is… but so are we.
Until next week,
Anthony Composto
@The_Great_Ace
@monkeys_robots
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