STRONGHOLD #1 Writer: Phil Hester Artist: Ryan Kelly Letterer: Simon Bowland Colorist: Dee Cunniffe Publisher: Aftershock Rating 9/10 The trope of discovering superpowers by accident has been apart of comic book history for decades, that is essentially how we are introduced to our main character, Michael Grey. One day as he is taking the bus home from work, he witnesses a car accident on the bridge.This is when Michael, without thinking, gets the urge to plunge off the bridge

MIDNIGHT VISTA #1 Writer: Eliot Rahal Artist: Clara Meath Colorist: Mark Englert Letterer: Taylor Esposito Cover: Juan Doe Publisher: Aftershock Comics Rating: 7/10 Lavender and peach skies dribble behind blue Albuquerque mountains as white noise statics on television in front of young Oliver. A woman in his home screams at the phone for child custody while the sounds of Wheel of Fortune alternate with static, local news, static. This flashbacks to 2002, Midnight Vista street

Manor Black #2 Dark Horse Comics Writers: Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt Art & Colors: Tyler Cook Cover: Tyler Cook Tyler Cook just stepped his game way up in the art and colors in this issue! It’s a spectacle seeing his messy watercolors behind his refined gothic outlines. Black, brown, and reds are this story’s theme. It’s just so beautiful that you know everything is about to go wrong! Bunn packed the story allowing us to learn about a number of characters in just two issues. S

BAD RECEPTION #1 Writer/Artist: Juan Doe Colorist: Juan Doe Letterer: Juan Doe Publisher: Aftershock Comics Rating: 9/10 Black. Nothing but darkness as bloodshed splashes across six pages. The man being interviewed calls himself a techno-ethicist, an advocate for a better digital environment where he believes we need better morale. People are unknowingly separating their online and analog selves, overusing social media, and forgetting empathy, he says. Blaise Bordeaux-Davis,