San Diego Comic Con is upon us. The Juggernaut of comic book conventions. The one where everything happens. Many people have lamented over less actual comic announcements happening at SDCC with more focus to non-comic related properties (Hello, Twilight!) To me, I’m OK with anything that gets them in the door. Especially now with both Marvel and DC having such heavy presence on TV and the silver screen, there will be tons of those sort of announcements. Where the concern comes in is the actual comic announcements getting overshadowed by all this. Which is why companies like BOOM! and Image went and made their announcements before the convention actually began. So this week question to you is what do you want to see announced at SDCC? A new Star Wars book from Marvel? The return of the pre-52 DC Universe? Official word on what Warner Bros is doing with the DC movie universe? A Moon Knight TV show? Just tweet at us with the hashtag #LBHQuery or if you need more than 140 characters, tell us below and we’ll talk about it all on next week’s...
The Empty Man #1 Review...
posted by Joe
From BOOM Studios Written by Cullen Bunn with art by Vanesa R Del Rey I’ve been a fan of Cullen Bunn’s work since taking over Wolverine and the Captain America team up books back in 2012, so perhaps I was late to the party as he had been killing it on the Sixth Gun for some time. Currently, Bunn is currently writing Sinestro for DC Comics, Magneto for Marvel, the Remains for MonkeyBrain Comics, Godzilla: Cataclysm for IDW and so much more. That’s Charles Soule levels of busy. When this book was announced, I added it to my pull list without hesitation. While I may not get all of Bunn’s mainstream stuff (Todd is still selling me on Magneto) his creator owned/indie stuff is purchased sight unseen. Now, this may sound like a risky proposition to some, however, Cullen Bunn is one of the folks on my Trusted Creators list. I read no solicitations, I read no interviews or reviews prior. Will always buy. Did my risk pay off? There might be some spoilers. This six issue miniseries centers around two seemingly unrelated stories: Abram, a Southern style preacher, starting with a tiny flock in an abandoned gas station to a huge congregation on national TV and a “virus” that causes people to go mad, ending in a gruesome demise. No one knows what is causing it, the CDC and the FBI working together to fine a cure while stemming the rise of cults claiming responsibility for ‘the Empty Man” disease. The most recent case, brings about two missing children, only seen in a picture on the wall of the home of the deceased and in the hands of a scarred woman who joined the afore mentioned religious group five years earlier. There is your mystery, folks. Where did these children...