Honorable Mentions: May 2022

​What you may have missed in May! 

May flew by like a breeze, and while we covered the great majority of excellent new titles on the show, there were a few that slipped through the cracks that we wanted to make sure didn't go unnoticed! 

Honorable Mention Highlights: May 2022

• Grim #1 (w: Stephanie Phillips, a: Flaviano)
• Eight Billion Genies #1 (w: Charles Soule a: Ryan Browne)
• I Hate This Place #1 (W - Kyle Starks; A/CA: Artyom Topilin, Lee Loughridge)

Grim #1
Jess is a grim reaper. She has no idea why she is dead, but she is and she has a job to do. On a routine soul grab, her scythe is stolen. At some point there is a skull face, a lot of rage and a mention of the veil between the two worlds of life and death. With a familiar premise, a fun cast of characters and plenty of action, this book is absolutely one to die for (sorry).

Eight Billion Genies #1
This is possibly one of the most chaotic premises I've ever heard of and it definitely delivers. In an instant, every person on earth is given their own genie with one wish. Thinking fast, the owner of a local bar wishes that his bar and everyone within it are protected by wishes made outside. What follows is a series of surprisingly personal tales backdropped on the chaos happening in the world, which is now cube-shaped because somebody wished for that, I guess?

​I Hate This Place #1
Is it aliens? Is it ghosts? Is it demons? Is it... all of the above? Honestly, we have no idea what we're dealing with in this book, aside from a couple trying to flip a house they inherited. Spoiler - I don't think they're going to sell successfully, even in this market.