New year means new comics. This year sees launches, relaunches, reboots, reinterpretations, and all kinds of weird and assuredly wacky doings a-transpiring. Here’s the myetvmedia list of what to keep an eye out for.

Nova Phase

January 2014

A love letter to old-skool rpgs, Nova Phase is a beautiful looking comic with a heart of gold, using 8-bit styled art and a limited palette to evoke ye olde games, even coming with it’s own chiptune soundtrack to complete the illusion. Tieing together a string of old stories in a way that’s interesting and new, writer Matthew Ritner and artist Adam Elbatimy have created something really special. It goes on sale this month, check it out.

Hacktivist #1

January 2014

Marcus To, Alyssa Milano showcase two computer programmers who run the social network site “YourLife” while secretly working as hacker-crusaders to fight tyranny across the globe (Jan 2014).

New Warriors

February 2014

With a creative team of Christopher Yost and Marcus To, I was going to buy this anyway when I saw Scarlet Spider was part of the cast.

Also, a brief moment of silence for Scarlet Spider’s own series, taken from us too soon. He was the danger.

Everything about this sounds great, it’s definitely worth having a look at, especially for Scarlet Spider fans.

Moon Knight

March 2014

Warren Ellis has long had a love of slightly insane protagonists dressed all in white. Moon Knight is a schizophrenic superhero who dressed all in white long before Ellis ever put pen to paper. Long derided as a Batman knock-off, and after numerous attempts at revitalizing the property and a new tv series apparently in the pipeline, Moon Knight is going to be one superhero to watch this year.

Iron Fist

April 2014

“They offered him life. He chose death.” Kaare Andrews promises to bring Iron Fist back to his kung fu roots, with punching and wa-CHAing and HI-YAHs. I’m very excited about this. I’m a long time fan of Kaare Andrews, I’ll be buying it for the art alone. Great character, great premise, great creator. Hopefully it’ll catch the attention it needs to have a good, long run.