New comic book day is quickly approaching and with a number of titles being released it can be hard to pick out which comics you should grab. This week in our featured comic book releases we include Animal Pound #1, Curse Words: The Hole Damned Thing Compendium and more.
While we are not the official voice of this decision, we want to help guide you in the right direction for comics releasing December 20, 2023.
Animal Pound #1
Writer: Tom King
Artist: Peter Gross
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
When animals grow tired of being caged, killed, and sold off-it’s only a matter of time before they’ve had enough…
When an uprising puts a pound in control of the animals, they quickly find themselves as comrades, united against everything that walks on two legs.
But with this newfound power comes a sudden challenge: how best to lay the groundwork for this new democracy as they write their first constitution!
Discover an epic graphic storytelling event from celebrated New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (The Human Target, Love Everlasting) and New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-nominated artist Peter Gross (American Jesus, The Books of Magic).
King and Gross collaborate for the first time ever to bring this enduring Orwellian allegory to life for the 21st Century.
Curse Words: The Hole Damned Thing Compendium
Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Ryan Browne
Publisher: Image Comics
From the creative team that brought you Eight Billion Genies!
Here at last from Charles Soule (Star Wars) and Ryan Browne (God Hates Astronauts): Curse Words: The Hole Damned Thing is the complete collection of the magical, hilarious, oddly moving story of an evil wizard named Wizord, his talking koala sidekick Margaret, and their journey to be good (or at least slightly less bad) in this dark, unforgiving world of ours.
Collects all 28 issues originally published by Image Comics and the previously unpublished full-length epilogue issue Curse Words: After Words. This is the definitive collection of the series that Joe Hill (Locke & Key, NOS4A2) calls a “terrific, terrific comic.”
Collects Curse Words #1-28 and Curse Words: After Words Epilogue Special.
Hairball HC
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Tyler Jenkins, Hillary Jenkins
Publisher: Dark Horse
A brand-new supernatural nightmare that’s Junji Ito meets Hayao Miyazaki from the Eisner-nominated creators of Fear Case and Apache Delivery Service. A young girl with a black cat begins to suspect the innocuous beast is behind all her troubles: her parents’ fighting, family plagues, and innumerable supernatural horrors. As she tries her best to rid herself of this creature, she discovers that maybe the cat is not evil after all and a greater terror may be behind these horrific events harming her life. Collects Hairball #1-4 in a deluxe, hardcover die-cut format featuring faux cat fur.
