On The Comic Crush, Paul reviews Peacemaker Tries Hard! Having earned his release from the Suicide Squad, Peacemaker wants to try to do normal superhero stuff for a change. Unfortunately, everyone - including the bad guys, thinks he sucks at superhero stuff. But when busting up a terrorist ring introduces Christopher Smith to the cutest puppy to ever walk (awkwardly) on four legs, he finds the unconditional love he's been denied his whole life...until the dog is kidnapped by a super-villain with some very un-super-heroic plans for Peacemaker's brand of ultraviolence. Will he help an unstable criminal steal the world's most valuable--and dangerous-- DNA? Honestly, Christopher's pretty lonely, so it probably just depends on how nicely they ask...

On The Comic Crush: Paul reviews Loki: The Liar. The fate of the Marvel Universe lies in the hands of...Loki?! He may be the "benevolent" God of Stories now, but his past as the God of Lies returns to haunt him when something ancient and powerful that he once built ends up scattered across the Ten Realms! Now, setting sail on a ship made of fingernails, the Trickster must track down its fragments to stave off Ragnarok! His epic journey begins in the ruins of Nidavellir, where the relic has been crafted into a devastatingly powerful weapon! Then, on a distant planet, will Emperor Hulkling and Wiccan put aside old grudges against their former Young Avengers teammate to aid Loki's quest? And what happens when the third shard ends up in the hands of Earth's deadliest assassin? There's a target on Loki's back, and Bullseye never misses! 

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne reviews The Incredible Hulk Vol. 1: The Age Of Monsters. A new age of monsters! As an enraged Hulk tries to take permanent control of the body he shares with Bruce Banner, a mysterious immortal turns every monster on Earth against him in an attempt to free their creator, the primordial Mother of Horrors! With the help of an unlikely new friend, Banner must stop the world from being plunged into darkness - and his journeys take him from an abandoned coal-mining town that gives terrifying new meaning to the term "ghost town" to swamplands where a sultry seductress lures unsuspecting victims into her trap! What is her connection to Marvel's macabre muck-monster - and will the Hulk burn at the Man-Thing's touch?! Plus: A documentary crew on the Hulk's trail gets too close to the action!

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne arrives late to the party and reviews ‘Four Gathered On Christmas Eve’. Four of the top creators in comics gather to continue the Victorian tradition of ghost stories on Christmas Eve. Four tales of the bizarre and terrifying to keep you company on the cold yule night. A unique approach to the ghost story format where the creators themselves become part of the story in this deluxe edition hard cover designed by the award-winning Phil Balsman.

On The Comic Crush: We review Doctor Strange by Mark Waid Vol. 1: Earth's Sorcerer Supreme goes intergalactic! When Stephen Strange loses his mastery of the mystic arts, Tony Stark offers a twenty-first-century solution: Search for new magic in outer space! Bizarre new spells, allies, and enemies await Strange beyond the stars as he uncovers corners and secrets of the Marvel Universe never before witnessed! But he's a little out of his element traveling the galaxy - and it shows! Before long, Strange finds himself powerless, friendless, and the prisoner of a hostile civilization. Thankfully, a new companion can lend a hand when the Super-Skrull swings by, wielding the Time Stone! But what shocking surprise is waiting for Stephen back on Earth? It's time to gear up, get serious, and build a new arsenal - because Doctor Strange has become his own worst enemy!

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne reviews Void Rivals Vol. 1: The blockbuster Oblivion Song team of Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici launch an all-new shared universe connected to the Transformers and G.I. Joe! War rages around the Sacred Ring, where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war. However, when pilot Darak and his rival Solila both crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies must find a way to escape together. But are they alone on this strange planet? And what dark forces await that threaten the entire universe?

On The Comic Crush, we review Survival, from Dark Horse Comics! When Emma Reed journeyed back to her hometown in Alaska, she was expecting little more than a tense family reunion. But early that morning, a plane full of militarized vampires in a hijacked Russian warplane crash-landed in the thick woods near the mountain and changed her life forever. This thrilling tale combines the action-packed drama of Red Dawn and the horror of 30 Days of Night, as these invaders aren't just here to control the American wilderness they now occupy, but to literally suck the blood from their victims.

On The Comic Crush, Paul reviews All Eight Eyes by Steve Foxe and Piotr Kowalski: In the forgotten corners of post-9/11 New York City, skittering shapes in the darkness prey on the people society leaves behind. College dropout Vin Spencer floats through life in a drug-and-party-fueled haze, until one terrible night sweeps him into a drifter's reckless war against the giant eight-legged horrors stalking the city. Collects issues #1-4 and features pinups by James Stokoe, Martin Simmonds, David Romero, and Trevor Henderson, along with a bonus sketchbook section.

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne reviews Scott Snyder and Francis Manapul’s Clear, from Dark Horse Comics and ComiXology originals. In the not-too-distant future, mankind no longer sees the world as it truly is. The invention of neurological filters has made it so one can view reality however they may choose - Old Hollywood monochrome, zombie apocalypse, anime... the possibilities are endless. Neo-shamus Sam Dunes is one of only a handful who choose to live without a filter. When the death of an old flame reveals foul play, Dunes is set on a wild and twisting mystery that will take him from the city's deadly underworld to the even deadlier heights of wealth and power.

On The Comic Crush, we review Klik Klik Boom! Meet Sprout a mute assassin who communicates exclusively through Polaroid pictures. Being raised by her doomsday-prepping grandfather in the rolling hills of Idaho Sprout has never been around other people watched TV or seen clothes outside of Army fatigues. Now she's headed to the big lights of New York City to avenge her grandfather's murder but will the city's mesmerizing glitz and glam help her succeed-or be the death of her?

On The Comic Crush, Paul reviews Joe Kessler’s The Gull Yettin: The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly rendered, entirely wordless graphic novel by a contemporary comics innovator. Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co-founder and art director of UK's Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival's Fauve Révélation for his breakthrough comic book Windowpane, Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving The Gull Yettin. Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, The Gull Yettin's story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull (who may or may not be real). Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world, using it to explore all the forms that grief, jealousy, longing, and love can take in our lives, and the compassion and cruelty that can dwell in a single heart. Filled with all the warmth and poignancy of a great folktale, The Gull Yettin proves that Kessler is pushing comics to new heights.

On The Comic Crush: In the early 1980s, new B.P.R.D. agent Abe Sapien was set to retrieve the corpse of a powerful warlock off the coast of France. Abe quickly finds himself in a battle with a century-old evil in the form of demonic monks. Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander's premiere Abe solo series sets the stage for a collection of tales tracing Abe's times both as an agent of the B.P.R.D. and delving into his long-hidden origins. A haunted lake, South American vampires, and a mad scientist seeking out man's missing link are chronicled here!

On The Comic Crsuh, Paul Dunne shares his love for Cindy and Biscuit: From revered British indie cartoonist Dan White comes a monster-fighting latchkey kid in the vein of I Kill Giants and Courtney Crumrin. Meet Cindy and Biscuit: a girl and her dog. People (even her mum!) keep telling Cindy she’s weird, that she’s got a morbid, overactive imagination—but if that was true, why would she keep encountering all these monsters, ghosts, and aliens in real life? Watch Cindy and her fearless four-legged best friend get into all kinds of trouble, as their little coastal town seems to have a preponderance of werewolves, undead mermaids, dimensional portals, alien invasions, and worse . . . it's dark out in the woods! Luckily for all of us, Cindy is the action hero we needed, just in time to save the world a few times between now and detention.

On The Comic Crush we review Liam Cobb’s What Awaits Them, the long-awaited and complete collection of Liam Cobb’s short-form comics. Bringing together the previous Breakdown Press releases “The Inspector” and “The Fever Closing”, this new anthology includes strips and stories from every part of Cobb’s career. Readers will be transported to exotic luxury islands, the darkest rainforests, snow-swept frontiers, and a bizarrely run Michelin-starred restaurant, and will discover the unique mix of lush extravagance and bleak realities that his comics bring to the form. Cobb’s comics reflect the relative loneliness of contemporary life with gleaming, monolithic architecture. Metaphysical love blossoms in the dank humidity of the jungle in a whirlwind of melancholy and mundanity. His clean, unmistakable lines razor the page through rich colour, transporting the reader to a clinical oasis, a gleaming utopia laced with irony and sweat. With these stories, Cobb invites you to submerge yourselves in his uncanny waters and discover, once and for all, What Awaits Them...

On The Comic Crush: An engrossing science fiction graphic novel about a spaceship's crew, and the end of non-renewable resources. Ada, Haika, and Mallic are on a mission . . . one last mission, before everything, everywhere shuts down. They’re raiding old, abandoned spaceships and wrecks for the (sometimes expensive) parts – and they make just enough money to get by. But living their nomadic, exploring life isn’t sustainable when they can’t afford fuel anymore. The time is coming when the mineral that makes inter-system jumps possible runs out. When it does, the scattered inhabitants of the vast galaxy will be stuck where they are. Everything will be different . . . unless the discovery in the latest wreck Ada, Haika, and Mallic are scavenging can unlock a whole new kind of interstellar transit.

On The Comic Crush, we discuss Fantastic Four by Ryan North Volume 1: Something has gone terribly wrong in New York! The Thing and Alicia are travelling across America to escape it! But when they stop for the night and wake up the morning before they arrived, they find themselves caught in a time loop that's been going on since before they were born! Meanwhile, Reed and Sue are on the run from their troubles - and make an unfortunate stop in a small town full of killer Doombots! But what is their terrible secret? And Johnny is left alone in New York - a city that hates and fears him! So it's time for a new identity - and a new job! Can the FF find their way back together and somehow rebuild their lives?

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne reviews Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise. Brace yourself for a Doctor Strange story like you've never seen! From the uncanny mind of Tradd Moore, the Master of the Mystic Arts stars in one of his most mind-bending adventures - now wilder than ever on the oversized pages of a Treasury Edition! Doctor Strange awakens alone in a distant world not his own. Lost of purpose and surrounded by danger, the wandering sorcerer must explore this land of blades and mystery to unravel arcane secrets and escape the deadly horrors that lie in wait! Strange is pulled in every direction by powerful figures while millions of lives rest in the balance - including his own! Who can he trust? Can this world's deadly ritual be stopped? Or is the answer simply: Blood? Heaven help us, it must be blood!

On The Comic Crush, Paul Dunne reviews Minor Threats: The first creator-owned comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of Marvel's M.O.D.O.K on HULU, and superstar artist Scott Hepburn (Tom Morello's Orchid) , this is a graphic crime drama about superheroes and villains and the last gasp of the colorful innocent days of the silver and bronze age before they're dragged into the grit-soaked modern era. It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses...but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks, and they’re about to get much worse.

On The Comic Crush, we discuss The Wasp: Small Worlds! Celebrate 60 years of the wondrous Wasp! Fashion designer, businesswoman, and founding Avenger - Janet Van Dyne has worn many hats over the course of her super-heroic career. And many costumes! But when an old enemy threatens Janet and her fellow Wasp, Nadia - seemingly against his will - the Van Dynes must confront the ghosts in their shared history to get to the bottom of the mystery! But something about this case seems unnervingly familiar to Jan. Can she figure out what it is in time to save both their lives? Trapped in a past where Henry Pym, the Ant-Man, was never born, will they be wiped from existence altogether?

On The Comic Crush, we pick another of our 100 Comics We Love: A retiree dedicates his days to combing a dense, snow-covered forest in pursuit of the unknown, and his nights to reminiscing about his wife. Old Caves is a peek through a frost-covered window at isolation, obsession, and the slow erosion of relationships. The high contrast black and white art enhances the sense of absolute solitude. Old Caves is one of the best-looking graphic novel debuts in recent memory.