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“It’s dawning on me that it could be potentially dangerous for my career.” An...
The Comics Journal: How many of these post-Facebook conversations have you had at this point, online and off? Do you have a stock response prepared? Rich Tommaso:That’s hard to say. I engaged in most...
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Shirtless Bear-Fighter!
My mom was in the hospital recently. She’s out now, still walking on crutches. She spent a month and a half in a residential living facility on antibiotics for osteomyelitis. Visiting her at the...
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Rumble #1
John Arcudi’s Rumble returns with a new artist, David Rubin, a new #1 on the cover, and a new direction for the series. Arcudi uses this new #1 to fill in latecomers like me on the labyrinthine history...
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Paper Girls: Book One
The four plucky, twelve-year-old heroines of Paper Girls have all taken what is traditionally thought of as a boys’ job of delivering newspapers by bicycle in 1988 suburban Ohio. On the morning after...
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Days of Hate #1
“Remember when we all hated on 2016 online?”, this comic begins. “Called it a trash fire? And then on 2017? 2018, the elections? People don’t even hate on 2022. We’re catatonic.” So what do we know?...
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Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix
I will be completely honest, I did not intend to like Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix! That the book won me over is a testament to the skill of its creator. Why didn’t I think I was going to like...
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“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
Aleš Kot writes and creates stories for comics, television, video games and film. Their new work, Days of Hate, is currently being serialized by Image Comics. Kot and the Journal spoke via email over...
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“I’m Very Low-Key About It”: Katie Skelly And Alex de Campi
I met writer Alex de Campi two years ago, after becoming Twitter friends and chatting film. de Campi is maybe the most focused person in comics I know, and I find her drive infectious: since meeting...
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VS #1
VS is the new Image series by Esad Ribic, Nic Klein, and Ivan Brandon. It takes place in the blurred borders between a first-person shooter and a reality show about war. The first issue follows...
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Excerpt: Bloodstrike Brutalists
Bloodstrike: Brutalists - the project I've been feverishly working on for a while - has just been officially announced! I've been given free rein by Rob Liefeld to write/draw/letter/color my take on...
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Ass Kicked
Todd McFarlane was fantastically successful for a brief span of the 1990s, successful enough that he was able to parlay a brief dalliance with the zeitgeist into a lifetime’s worth of cred in a very...
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Twisted Romance #1
Twisted Romance is a new four-issue anthology series from Image, with issues coming out every week this past February. Each issue consists of a main comics story that pairs writer Alex de Campi with a...
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Oblivion Song #1
A cataclysm has already taken place. Presumably hundreds of people are dead, missing, or being used for nefarious purposes. But there’s one man… a loner who isn’t duped. An outsider who’s been told by...
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The Beef #1
The Beef goes into very graphic detail about how cows are killed in slaughterhouses. You see the machine that puts the bolt in the cow’s brain. You see the animals being dismembered. Fun stuff. That...
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Prism Stalker
Sloane Leong’s Prism Stalker, a new series from Image, is a lush, psychedelic, and ambitious series that grapples with colonialism, complicity with oppression, and the borders of the self without ever...
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Bingo Love
In an era when representation has become an almost obligatory subject in any discussion about any art form, one objection that gets raised when critics weigh in on a story that isn’t written by or...
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The Pervert
The Pervert, written by Michelle Perez and illustrated by Remy Boydell, is that big, difficult, trans, queer-as-shit, pull-no-punches sad fucking comic that I’ve been waiting for. And now it’s here,...
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Street Angel Goes to Juvie
Before I started the latest entry in Jim Rugg's Street Angel saga, it flashed on my just how long the book has been around in some form or another. Rare indeed is the still-relevant creator that can...
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Death or Glory #1
The latest Rick Remender comic-book series, Death or Glory, makes me want to throw in the towel before I’m done reading page one. Full disclosure: I translated the first two volumes of Deadly Class, a...
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Son of Hitler
"Just remember this," a friend told me a few years back when I told him I was thinking of making a World War II comic. "The Nazis won." It's almost impossible to take intellectual provocations in good...
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