Discover Top Posts Tagged with #manor black

Comics I need more of in 2023

The Lonesome Hunters

Tyler Crook’s both writing and drawing this series and it shows. I love the pacing, I love the emphasis on character. And apparently the next arc should kick off in either April or May, so I won’t have to wait too long for this.

Manor Black

The wait between the first and second arc was a long one thanks to the pandemic, but I’m hoping this series will be allowed to pick up some momentum with a new arc in 2023. Ideally, I’d like to see a new arc each year—Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt have plans for many more stories, and I would love to read them.

Tales from Harrow County

I don’t know how I’ll get through 2023 if we don’t get another arc of Tales from Harrow County. The second arc, Fair Folk, was left on a huge cliffhanger, and the third arc, Lost Ones, went sideways and told us a wildly different story that makes everything so much more epic and, of course, ended on another cliffhanger. The fourth arc will theoretically be dealing with the fallout from both these stories and I am in agony waiting for it.

The Night Eaters

From Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (somehow doing this new series while also doing a new arc of Monstress every year). This book was one of my highlights from 2022. Ipo is fantastic and I cannot get enough of her. There were times her dialogue had me laughing out loud.

Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

At the moment the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics are being written by Faith Erin Hicks, which is about as close to a perfect choice as I can imagine—she understands the age group, she’s a huge fan of the series, and she really loves to dig deep into character and express it through action. (There’re reasons why I always pick up a book if Hicks’s name is on it.) Most importantly, Hicks has said before how she’s reluctant to do an Azula story, because it’s a delicate balance—and frankly, I wouldn’t want anyone writing Azula unless they felt that way. Peter Wartman’s an excellent fit too, managing to tackle not just the character and action, but the world itself—the world is such a huge part of these comics! This is gonna be great.

Meanwhile, it seems The Legend of Korra comics have stalled for now. We got a short story anthology this year (Patterns in Time, which I have not read thanks to Nickelodeon locking Australia out of digitally distribution). My hope is that this book helped Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino find a team that can carry this series somewhat regularly.

The Bone Orchard Mythos

We’ve already got Tenement and Starseed scheduled for 2023, but I’m hoping to see the beginning of some short stories or one-shots too. Shadow Eater can’t be collected until it has enough companions, after all. Plus, my favourite part of The Bone Orchard Mythos is seeing the creators play with different formats and that makes short stories very appealing to me.

Frankenstein