When you go diving into the digital pit of self-publishing, you find a lot of genre riffs and superhero knock offs. I don't mean to belittle anyone's work, but just as with the mainstream there are piles of mediocrity and more piles of even worse. But there's also gems like Jennifer Wilde in the mix, the first issue hitting Comixology Submit this week (Atomic Diner, $0.99). Set in 1920′s Paris, Jennifer Chevalier is an accomplished artist, whose strained relationship with her parents only exacerbates when her father turns up dead in the street where they're supposed to meet, having “accidentally fallen” in front of a car. In reconciling his affairs, she comes across his locket containing her picture and that of Oscar Wilde. She attempts to summon her father's ghost (a skill she discovered — then hid — as a child) but Wilde, her father's former lover, appears instead and together they dig into the dead man's past. It's a strange twist, the ghost angle, but Read Full Review
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