The Forever Home #1 Review

 

The Forever Home #1 Review

Writer: Christian Ward

Artist: Sami Kivelä

Colorist: Jason Wordie

Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Cover Artists: Christian Ward, Frany, Sami Kivelä, David Rubín & Miguel Mercado

Publisher: Oni Press

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: September 9, 2026

 

Sarah and Tommy love their parents. But they want to play and explore the world around them. While their mother sympathizes with their struggles, their father seems less approachable. Then one day, Henry shares his concerns with them. Their father wants to protect them from a world that threatens them in innumerable ways.

 

Will Sarah and Tommy abide by their father's wishes? And how long can they stay cooped up inside, when there is a world outside to explore? Let’s leap into The Forever Home #1 and see!

 

Story

Henry enjoys the comfort and refinement of home. Yet Tommy wants to run and play, and Henry’s smart house isn't set up for that. When Tommy asks why he can't go outside, his father decides he's old enough. He activates a wall of viewscreen windows that reveal the devastated world outside. Everyone else may have died. Still, a plant arising from barren ground suggests that the Earth will recover.

 

The Forever Home #1 begins in the future, with Henry seemingly experiencing his final moments. Then, Henry explains the world to his son in the past. When the issue arrives in the present, Tommy and his sister have grown. Sarah is no longer a child bored by her father's condemnation of the world. The teenager looks after Tommy, who enjoys doing art. Yet the world has changed greatly in the six years they have been locked inside. What was once a desert has become a jungle. And creatures climb through trees to study the seemingly impregnable home.

 

As the camera switches between Henry and Tommy, Christian Ward’s story addresses the clash inherent in generational change. Henry has fashioned an ideal life for his family. He wants them to embrace his values and takes drastic steps to protect them. Tommy and Sarah may challenge his authority in small ways. Yet, neither attempts to usurp his authority. Still, a time will come when Henry and Tommy's paths will diverge. Then, each must choose how to navigate the chasm that divides them in The Forever Home #1.

 

Art

Henry, dressed in a suit and sporting a trimmed goatee, sits at a dining table heaped with appetizing food and sips tea from fine bone China. After pouring the tea, Cecil rolls away. As the robot departs, his wife and daughter arrive. Sarah toys with her bacon, eggs, and potatoes. Elizabeth helps their young son sit in an upholstered chair. A puppy sleeps in a basket at Henry's feet.

 

While Sami Kivelä works across pages to reveal the grandeur awaiting the family outside and how their house sustains them, smaller panels provide close-ups and dramatic reactions in The Forever Home #1. Jason Wordie adorns the home in browns with accent colors, while brightly colored paintings hang on the walls. Against the unchanging 1970s interior design, the view outside the diamond-shaped wall of windows grows increasingly green. A limited palette enhances the foliage as it surrounds the A-frame house. Black silhouettes against red hint at more dramatic changes than Henry is prepared to accept.

 

Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou places black uppercase letters in dialogue balloons and narrative boxes. Small, lowercase letters indicate lowered voices and may appear in backgrounds outside balloons. Words grow bold for intonation and swell for raised voices, while cloud-like balloons signify distress. Like his metal housing, Cecil speaks using green dialogue. The house addresses its father, Henry, in rectangular balloons. Sound effects accompany the Golden Labrador's actions as it grows up to be a family friend and proves just as curious as Tommy. Thanks to Oni Press and Superfan Promotions for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

As in Robert Charles Wilson’s Hugo Award-winning novel Spin, Humans live behind a protective barrier. It keeps them safe from the world outside. Yet, it restricts their movements and inhibits growth. As mythology replaces the facts they cannot learn while trapped inside, Henry fights to keep his family safe and secure in The Forever Home #1.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

For more cover art, see The Forever Home #1 Cover Preview. 

 

For more from Christian Ward, see Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 Review. 

 

For more from Sami Kivelä, see Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP Review. 

The Forever Home #1 Cover Preview

 

Cover A By Christian Ward

Sarah and Tommy love their parents. But they want to play and explore the world around them. While their mom sympathizes with their struggles, their father seems less approachable. But one day, he opens up, and shares his concerns with them. The world outside is strange and dangerous. Their father wants to protect them from a world that threatens them in innumerable ways. 

Will Sarah and Tommy abide by their father's wishes? And how long can they stay cooped up inside, when the world outside intrigues them?

Here's all the info from Oni Press: 

The Forever Home #1 Cover Preview

Written By Christian Ward

Art By Sami Kivelä

Colorist: Jason Wordie

Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Cover Artists: Christian Ward, Frany, Sami Kivelä, David Rubín & Miguel Mercado

Also Available: Blank Sketch Cover

Publisher: Oni Press

Issue Description: 32 Pages, Full Color

Series Length: 6 Issues

Price: $4.99 US

Release Date: September 9, 2026

 

THEY HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD . . . WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE THEM? From comics superstar Christian Ward (Event Horizon: Dark Descent, Batman: City of Madness) and visionary artist Sami Kivelä (Abbott), prepare to challenge the limits of time, technology, and human endurance itself as one family’s refuge from the end of the world becomes a mind-bending nightmare reaching far beyond the future. Inside: Time stands still. But outside: something even worse than the apocalypse awaits...

 

Famed scientist Henry D’mour tried to save the world. He failed. But, in a desperate bid to save himself, his wife, and their two children, he constructed THE FOREVER HOME—an ark of luxury and ultramodern convenience insulated from the agony of the planet’s death throes outside its walls . . . and even time itself. Inside THE FOREVER HOME, only 20 minutes pass for every year on the outside . . . allowing the D’mour family to slowly enact their plans for a new world as their automated environment and robotic companions keep them safe. Safe on the inside. Always inside. Until a childish misstep accidentally breaks THE FOREVER HOME’s barrier... and what’s outside decides it wants back in . . .

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Cover B By Frany

 

Cover C By Sami Kivelä

Foil Variant ($8.99) By Christian Ward

Full Art Variant (1:10) By Frany

Variant Cover (1:20) By David Rubín

Variant Cover (1:50) By Miguel Mercado

Thanks to Oni Press and Superfan Promotions for sharing this cover preview with us.

Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP Review

 

Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP Review

Writer: Dan Watters

Artist: Sami Kivelä

Colorist: Valentina Bianconi

Letterers: Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith

Cover Artist: Nipuni

Editor: Jonathan H Wilkins

Art Director: Oz Browne

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $17.99

Release Date: July 21, 2026

 

The Doctor has worn many faces and lived many lives. In his current incarnation, he has loved and lost. Given his abilities to travel through time and his extraordinarily long life, a companion helps him remember all the people who need his help. After Earth’s sun went nova, the Doctor and his companion freed its remaining inhabitants and reunited a little, lost girl with her parents. Where will the Doctor travel next? And who will help him rescue people in need? Let’s grab our sonic screwdrivers, leap into Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP, and see!

 

Story

After robots abducted her, the Doctor was trying to help Belinda Chandra return home. But something was shielding the Earth from his TARDIS’ navigational computers. Then, amid their search for Earth, Shadow Proclamation agents abducted the Human nurse. While Earth hides, the Doctor tracks his abducted companion to the Panoptopolis, a space station that orbits a black hole. No one who arrives there ever leaves. Still, that won’t deter the Doctor from rescuing his companion.

 

Yet in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP, Belinda isn’t his companion. The Doctor arrives on a prison shuttle with a cyborg, a Tentaculon, an Adipose, and a member of the Slitheen family. And when Security drags the new arrivals to Interrogation because of an irregular energy reading, H-8 the Living Gun, Methelough, Annie, and Felik decide they’re better off with the Doctor than going it alone in the Prison’s Gen Pop.

 

Dan Watters’ story contrasts the Doctor with the Warden of Panoptopolis. While the Doctor has lived for centuries, the Warden has ruled the maximum-security establishment for 800 years. Due to the Black Hole's gravity, uncrewed shuttles bring new inmates and supplies. The Warden can always shoot troublesome prisoners into the singularity. But the inhabitants, the Gravelyte guards, and the Warden can never leave.

 

As the Doctor and his new companions set off to find the Warden’s office, they must brave inmates who prey on their fellow captives. The Doctor points out that he and H-8 have slightly different life philosophies. But as his new companions aid him in his search for the Human nurse, the Doctor’s words and actions prompt them to reflect on their past. Yet while his new companions ponder how they might live differently, Belinda Chandra sits in the Warden’s office. And the only thing that keeps her breathing is her ability to entertain the bored ruler of his forever home in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP.

 

Art

Sami Kivelä surrounds the ringed space station with inset panels of the arriving shuttle and a view inside. The Doctor sits on a bench, his hands chained to the floor, beside a tooth-like Adipose and gassy, green Sliveen. Seated nearer the hatch, a purple cephalopod and a multi-armed cyborg frame the trio. Rock-creatures with horns direct them inside with their cattle prods. Before mingling with the rest of the prison population in the dining hall, the Doctor gazes up at an eyeball security camera. Then, he demands they release one of their prisoners to him.

 

Valentina Bianconi links the Doctor's orange-brown coat with the orange-tan rocky guards. With a purple Tentaculon and a green Sliveen for company, the fashion-conscious Doctor stands out among the prisoners and guards in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP. Yellow makes its presence felt in this lavishly colored story. The latest visitors enter beneath a yellow-and-black warning line. They pass through a brownish-yellow hall. The rock guards scan a white card adorned with yellow. As they enter a cafeteria filled with inmates wearing yellow coveralls, a yellow-eyed security camera watches them. Yet red will fill the air and make its presence felt, all too soon.

 

Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith fill white dialogue balloons with uppercase black dialogue. The narrator speaks into light-yellow boxes, while the rocky guards use cloudy, light-yellow balloons. The words grow bold for intonation and swell for raised voices. Sound effects enhance battles and put would-be rescuers at ease. Yet a lowly character speaks the loudest, even if it is a squeak. The tightly bound trade paperback features glossy paper and doesn’t obscure the art near the gutter. A cover gallery and pages from Sami Kivelä’s notebook fill out this trade paperback. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a physical review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

The Panoptopolis holds many dangerous prisoners. But none of them are as dangerous as the guards or as ruthless as the Warden. In this story about the temptations and abuses of power, the Doctor inspires the imprisoned to ignore their fears in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox TP.

 

Rating 9.8/10

Doctor Who Circuit Breaker: Adversary of the Daleks #1 Preview

 

COVER A: JAY ANACLETO

When the BBC shut down TV production after the Seventh Doctor and Ace's final onscreen adventures in 1989, work began on making a Doctor Who movie. As the property drifted between filmmakers and studios, all the scripts had one idea in common. Hollywood was fascinated with the Daleks. They just didn't know how to reinvent them for the big screen. 

Perhaps it's just as well the Daleks didn't feature in the 1996 American-made Eighth Doctor TV pilot, as the series eventual return to the BBC in 2005 proved that the Daleks didn't need to be reinvented. They were still capable of turning the Doctor's life inside out, and endangering the Earth, whenever they wished.

Yet every time they've appeared, each Doctor Who story has explored new aspects of the Daleks. What changes will the Daleks demonstrate when the Doctor discovers them meddling in Earth's past? And can the Doctor prevent them from destroying our future?

Here's all the info from Titan Comics: 

DOCTOR WHO: CIRCUIT BREAKER – ADVERSARY OF THE DALEKS

Writers: Dan Watters & Dulce M. Montoya

Artists: Roberta Ingranata, Sami Kivelä & Valentina Bianconi

Publisher: Titan Comics

Issue Length: 48 Pages (Full Color)

Price: $6.99

Release Date: July 8, 2026 

 

THE DALEKS ARE BACK! Titan Comics is thrilled to announce their involvement in the Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker mixed-media event, with TWO comics and an all-new graphic novel which will feature the Fugitive Doctor’s first encounter with the Daleks!

With Issue #1 launching the first full adventure of the epic Circuit Breaker mixed-media event, Titan will publish two thrilling adventures that send the Doctor across time and space into her deadliest conflict yet. In Adversary of the Daleks, the Doctor arrives in Thessaloniki in ancient Greece where she discovers that even the gods fear strange visitors from across the universe.

While in Dawn of the Daleks, the Doctor travels to the war-ravaged world of Skaro as the Doctor battles the Daleks with the fate of their Kaled forebears at stake!

Written by acclaimed comics writers Dulce M. Montoya and Dan Watters (Batman: Dark Patterns, Nightwing) - and brought to life by stunning artwork from Sami Kivelä (Undone by Blood), these comics will be a must-read for fans of Doctor Who, science fiction, and epic intergalactic adventures. 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

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COVER B: PHOTO

 

COVER C: ROBERT SIENICKI

 

 

COVER D: FLOPS

 

COVER E: FLOPS - COLOUR YOUR OWN VARIANT

 

Jay Anacleto Inks Cover

 

 

Here's the full list of cover options for both issues:

 

ISSUE 1:

COVER A: JAY ANACLETO

COVER B: PHOTO

COVER C: ROBERT SIENICKI

COVER D: FLOPS

COVER E: FLOPS - COLOUR YOUR OWN VARIANT

 

ISSUE 2:

COVER A: NIPUNI

COVER B: PHOTO

COVER C: KIT WALLIS

COVER D: FLOPS

COVER E: FLOPS

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker: Adversary of the Daleks #1 will be released on July 8, 2026, with Issue #2 on August 5, 2026, and the Graphic Novel to follow on the December 2, 2026. 

Thanks to Titan Comics for sharing this preview with us.

Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #4 Preview

 

COVER A SUNGHAN YUNE VARIANT

The Doctor wants to rescue his companion. So he sneaks aboard a shuttle carrying prisoners to the supermax prison orbiting a black hole. But just as light cannot escape a black hole, once prisoners check in, they never leave Hotel Panoptopolis. Will Belinda share Katarina's fate in The Daleks' Master Plan? Or will she be granted a stay of execution like Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown in The Trial of a Time Lord?

Here's all the info from Titan Comics:

 

DOCTOR WHO: THE PRISON PARADOX #4 (OF 4)

Format: Comic book

W: Dan Watters

A: Sami Kivela

Publisher: Titan Comics

FC, 32pp, $4.99, February 18, 2026

 

The grand finale! The entire journey has led to this point, as the Doctor and Belinda face the sinister Warden. What is his staggering secret and can the time travellers do the impossible and break out of his inescapable prison?

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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COVER B PHOTO VARIANT

 

 

COVER C SAMI KIVELÄ VARIANT

 

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For more:

https://titan-comics.com/c/2391-doctor-who-the-fifteenth-doctor-the-prison-paradox/

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3 Review

 

Writer: Dan Watters

Artist: Sami Kivelä

Colorist: Valentina Bianconi

Letterers: Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith

Cover Artists: VV Glass, Photo & Sami Kivelä

Editor: Jonathan H Wilkins

Art Director: Oz Browne

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $4.99

Release Date: January 21, 2026

 

After robots abducted Belinda Chandra, the Doctor tried to return her to Earth. When locating his favorite planet proved difficult, he landed the TARDIS on Clithrow. But while the Doctor took a vindicator reading, Shadow Proclamation agents whisked Belinda off to the Panoptopolis, the escape-proof prison orbiting a black hole.

 

Like CIA agent Snow, the Doctor sneaks into the Panoptopolis on a rescue mission. But can he rescue Belinda from a prison holding more species than space penitentiary MS One? And does the Doctor prefer Luc Besson movies to Roald Dahl adaptations? Let’s grab our sonic screwdrivers, leap into Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3, and see!

 

Story

H-8, the living weapon, fell while helping the Doctor escape the Gravelyte guards. Methelough, the Tentaculon who devoured its siblings at birth, fell before its Zygon pursuers. So, as the Doctor prepares to enter a wing filled with dangerous inmates, only Felik the Slitheen and Annie the Adipose accompany him. And while Felik is the larger of the two, the pirate wonders if uniting under the Doctor’s banner was wise.

 

As in the last issue, Dan Watters narrates events from an omniscient perspective. But instead of relating insights from Methelough’s point of view, he filters the Doctor's journey from Annie's worldview. Like Groot, Annie's ability to communicate with non-Adipose species is limited. But even though she is composed of lipids, Annie demonstrates that she has a heart in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3.

 

While addressing what makes the Adipose tick and how other species regard them, the Doctor encounters a danger that wouldn't win entry to the Second Doctor's Monster of the Week ranks. The Doctor also expresses his concern for his squad. Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3 may not rack up as high a kill count as classic stories like Warriors of the Deep or Attack of the Cybermen. Still, as the Doctor reminds Felik and Annie, not all the inmates snuck aboard to rescue innocent victims. Nor may they prove as amenable to joining their rescue squad.

 

Art

While Sami Kivelä compares a sleeping baby and cuddly bunnies with Annie, Felik’s eyepatch and claws reinforce the image of a predator. Annie may be tiny compared with the Slitheen. But she gazes up at her ally with a scowl when the Adipose hears something she dislikes. The Doctor flashes a radiant smile as he studies his sonic screwdriver. But he glances back to deliver a warning before placing a hand on a glowing scanner.

 

Valentina Bianconi lavishes a loaded palette of bright and attractive colors on Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3. Clad in his long brown coat, the stylish Fifteenth Doctor ventures into danger, followed by the green Slitheen and white Adipose. Red light fills a room filled with containment cells. A spinning fan evokes the Ninth Doctor's journey through Platform One with Jabe, the sentient tree. Yellow links the floor lighting and the yellow hand scanner with the yellow eyes inside each surveillance camera. But purple signals danger as the Doctor travels toward the Warden's yellow office.

 

Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith fill white dialogue balloons with carefully hand-written uppercase black dialogue. The narrator speaks closely spaced lines of text into light-yellow boxes. The words grow bold for intonation, swell for raised voices, and never shrink. Yet the diminutive character most species disdain captures readers' hearts with her big squeaks. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Fighting their way through a maximum-security prison was always going to be dangerous. But while the Doctor fears his allies will succumb to their baser natures, the inmates show a surprising ability to rise above their self-serving ways in Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Doctor Who: The Prison Paradox #3.