>The multi-Eisner Award-winning, multi-Harvey Award-winning, and Reuben Award-winning creation of comics master Paul Chadwick Concrete is back with Concrete: Stars Over Sand, a five-part story of amnesia, wilderness, and suspense. Beginning June 2026, fans will get the opportunity to read all-new Concrete for the first time since 2012.>“A decade’s work, more or less,” said Chadwick on the development of the series. “Covers are wraparound oil paintings; it’s set in places I’ve camped and sketched; I’ve lived, briefly, Concrete’s affliction. Everything I know about suspense I’ve tried to do here.”>Concrete has entered the desert and not come back. Larry and Maureen are frantic. Reports come that he is wandering the nearby arid mountains, covered with blood, attacking people. Concrete, lightning-struck, confused, roams a frightening world he can’t understand. Roars tear across the sky. A strange globe rises. His body is sheathed in stone. He thinks he is being hunted. People are a threat.>His journey back to life, and his friends’ dire search against a looming deadline, is as strange and tense as any Concrete story ever told.>Celebrate the return of Concrete in Concrete: Stars Over Sand #1 (of 5) when it arrives at comic shops on June 17, 2026, for $4.99.
>>152573532Based
>>152573532Concrete is a good comic, I'm happy for more.>Covers are wraparound oil paintingsKino
Let me guess, nobody on /co/ knows what Concrete is
>>152573532Finally, something to look forward to.
>>152574095I only know because for some reason an anon brought it up a few weeks ago and I put it on my read list, and this thread. I havent gotten around to it yet
>>152575459It's a pretty good read. Chadwick has a unique narratorial voice, a far more mature outlook on human nature than the sci-fi trappings of the series' premise might imply (though an admittedly naïve outlook on environmentalism) and his art maintains a sort of cinematic quality to it. There's no other book quite like it, which is very rare in a medium like this.
>>152575676>narratorialMeant to write authorial
does this mean they'll put the old omnis back in print, pretty fucking please dark horse???
>>152573532Kinda cool desu
>>152575875>Dark Horse>reprinting something that isn't HellboyHahaha! No.
>>152575893That's what I'm thinking, although I was mistaken Dark Horse never made Concrete Omnis, only "digest" sized TPBs 20 years agoI feel they could fit everything into 3 decently sized modern dark horse Omnis
>>152575933New collections would work wonders if they had all the material in chronological order, too.
Bumpety boo, Concrete stepped in dog doo-doo
Creteing my conk.
>>152574095Of course not. Comic readers on /co/ are only here to complain about hate read Marvel & DC comics they don't like.
>>152574095Read it in high schoolLoved it
>>152574095I sure don't lol
Nice.
So is this like a Ben Grimm fanfic
>>152579447I'm unironically here for weird shit because I dont know where else to go and hate 99% of the modern internet.Please dont leave me concrete niggas tell me about good shit like concrete and other similar ckmice
>>152584190Similar to Concrete? Not even Chadwick's other work is really like Concrete. I've always had this weird association between Concrete and David Mack's Kabuki because I got into them at the same time though they're completely different types of stories with radically different art styles and wildly divergent ways of telling their stories. What they do have in common is that they're pretty good, they're both creator driven and explore exactly what the creator wants to explore exactly the way they want to and both deal with some sci-fi trappings to lead the reader into an exploration of the internal world of the protagonist.So there's that. Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven is another totally different comic, written and drawn by one guy, self-published (and foreverally unfinished), sort of like a British Twin Peaks type of thing set in a small town in Merry Old EnglandMost importantly though, I'm taking this opportunity to shill Steve Bissette's Tyrant because after decades it's finally getting a collected edition through kickstarter and I want people to support it when it goes livehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GoidIqSKAw
>>152584281I'm writing all this shit down thanks. Love Lynch so you sold me.
>>152583714sort off?It's like a deconstruction of the superhero that gets transformed by alien/space related phenomena, but in this case he's the only supernatural thing in an otherwise totally normal world, I mean he's still up to help and be a hero or whatever but the need for an indestructible superstrong concrete man is kinda limited in this world and being stuck in that condition just leaves him disconnected from the rest of humanity.
>>152583714It's like The Fantastic Four, but Ben doesn't get the girl.
Hey so The Human Dilemma ended with Ron giving birth so is this new series going to acknowledge that? Because I'm not seeing any references to it
Just reading and chilling with my pictures of nakes ladies, he just like me fr fr
>>152573532I should go catch up.
Bumping for interest and exposure
I recall trying to get my hands on comics of this character and finding it impossible to get either a clear answer which books had all the comics,much less any books that cost less than an arm and a leg.Can I read concrete on readcomicsonline?
>>152586730>and finding it impossible to get either a clear answer which books had all the comics,much less any books that cost less than an arm and a legDark Horse did these tpb collections that collect the series in 7 volumes>Depths>Heights>Fragile Creature>Killer Smile>Think Like a Mountain>Strange Armor>The Human DilemmaAll of them have been out of print forever though, it took me years to track all 7 down without paying more than cover price.
>>152584281That Tyrant book looks sweet. Might even pick up the artist edition. I have no idea how good a writer Bissette is but his art is amazing. Unrelated, but I'm really happy to see Jim Rugg popping up on YouTube again, even if he's just there to shill this Kickstarter.
>>152586771>we'll never have a Cartoonist Kayfabe episode dissecting Tyrant's Artist EditionEd bros...
>>152586807There's a 1000% chance the book will be dedicated to him at least
>>152586807Also>Bissette and Jim both shutting down the chance of 1963 getting the same collected treatmentWhy must be The Original Writer so cruel?
>>152573532>>152584281There's some weird fucking shit going on in the comic industry right now>40 years after the fact DC decides that Rick Veitch's original ending to his Swamp Thing run is going to be released as a miniseries with new content by him and Tom Mandrake>Tyrant gets a collected edition>Paul Chadwick brings Concrete backLike don't get me wrong I'm fully on board with all of this but why is it happening now?
>>152584668>It's like The Fantastic Four>but Ben doesn't get the girlSo, just regular Fantastic Four then
>>152586899Looks like the industry is wising up to the actual age of comic readership. And I'm saying that as a millenial who would rather buy those you listed than anything actually recent. Also, Dark Horse just released Geof Darrow'sold proto-Shaolin Cowboy comics for the first time in English as well.
>>152586961Beautiful.
>>152586961>Also, Dark Horse just released Geof Darrow'sold proto-Shaolin Cowboy comics for the first time in English as well.Where? What?
>>152584646>he's the only supernatural thing in an otherwise totally normal worldSuch a lame and gay trope
>>152587049There's a new collection with all the Bourbun Thret comics and the first volume of Shaolin Cowboy.
>>152587097That's neat, I guess. I don't have the original story in hardcover so might as well get this
>>152587104One thing that always irked me that the talking donkey never comes back after the first volume. I wonder if Darrow just forgot about him. But whateves.
>>152587072It was new back then.
Where to start with this guy?
>>152587527At the beginning.
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>>152588028>The time of passivity is overAll it's missing is Spawn sitting on his garbage-throne in the middle
>>152574095This needs to get a movie or TV adaptation to be known. It could be the "artsy" version of Clayface.
Paul CHADwick
>>152588775Is he though?
>>152588869Hell yes.
>>152584281>>152584578You know what nobody ever talks about that I wish more people did?A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
>>152589460Any good?
>>152590523prolly not
>>152588249Why Spawn?
>>152589460She's a good artist, but she she should have gone with a more cutesy art style.
>>152574095I know, but her would probably be a lot more popular if his 90s movie wasn't cancelled
I have several of the digest sized collections but they're nonconsecutive. I think it's 2, 4, & 7. The art looks great but I was hoping to find at least the 1st before I dug in to them.
>>152593701I hate that.
>>152593701It's not like the books form a single continuous story so you can just read the ones you have
>>152592070He's the king of lazy bums and can be only motivated by putting his onetis in peril
>>152593701>>152595076Yeah I read the books in random order because that's how I got them, something like>5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 7, 6
