MID- FEB COMIC ROUND-UP: A Mix Of Terror And Adventure Coming In Quickly.

Welcome to the mid-February comic rundown for the weird and wonderful issues coming out before the end of the month. Starting with Comixology Originals, who are releasing two titles imminently, and closely followed by AHOY comics.

Lycan #1

Firstly, the new series, The Lycan, by Thomas Jane and David James Kelly, written by Mike Carey.

Year of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island. In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited for: find the Berserking Beasts that have been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy them.

Check out the first issue from February 18. Sounding like a mix between ‘The Terror’ and ‘The Ghost and The Darkness’, it should be a promisingly tense and gripping tale.

Budding Crisis #2

Written by MK Reed and with art by Jonathan Hill, the Cygnan Illuminati celebrate the fruition of their well-crafted plans, and plot their next moves as they contend with the end of their reign.

Continuing the tale of wishing seeds, conspiracy and swashbuckling adventure on February 18.

Issue one can still be purchased through Amazon, if not at your local comic store, so it won’t be hard to catch up on this whimsical tale.

Howl #2

Published by AHOY, this second issue is the latest collaboration from novelist and comics writer Alisa Kwitney (The Sandman Presents, G.I.L.T.) and artist Mauricet (Star Wars Adventures, G.I.L.T.). HOWL is a witty, bohemian, sci-fi that can best be described as Mrs. Maisel meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In this issue, a dented can of soup gives Ziva a weird clue that her science fiction author husband might not be of this earth! Writer Alisa Kwitney based this series on her parents’ time in Greenwich Village, which did not include the “not of this earth” part. We think. We HOPE!

The five-issue series is set in Greenwich Village in the late ‘50s, home of poets, artists, musicians, sci-fi writers, their put-upon partners — and the extraterrestrial spores that are secretly taking them over.

A lot of talent means a lot of potential. We’ll see if they can keep the tension up.

Issue two hits shelves on February 19 with the following variant covers.

Cover A: Mauricet

Cover B: Ben Clarkson

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