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“Expectations Are Right Next Door to Demands”: A David Brothers Profile
Printouts obscure David Brothers’ desk. They signal a full slate of projects. A branded company hoodie says something about belonging. “I want to see where it takes me,” he says. “I want to see how...
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Perdy
I was surprised at first to learn that Image Comics was getting into the Eurocomics translation business, but upon further reflection it seems a logical enough endpoint to a line drawn more or less...
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Beowulf
Santiago García and David Rubin’s graphic novel is not the first comic adaptation of the Old English poem Beowulf, nor will it likely be the last. This latest iteration is, however, the most...
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“I’m Well Past the Point Where I Need Comics to Love Me Back”: An Interview...
Joe Casey has spent his decades long career as a writer for comics carving an imaginative space for himself inside of corporate work — he’s done extended runs on X-Men, Superman, and WildC.A.T.s, as...
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Infidel
The death toll is high and the racial slurs fly in Infidel, Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell’s horror series about a murderous presence that seems to feed on hatred. But to paraphrase one of...
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My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been working together for a while, since Phillips inked part of Brubaker’s Scene of the Crime at Vertigo. The first time they made waves together was Wildstorm’s...
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Street Angel Vs Ninjatech
Since reviving Street Angel in 2017, Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca have used the series of one-offs to mess around with storytelling on every level, frequently switching styles and genres, chasing ideas...
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Bloodstrike: Brutalists
I hesitated when offered the chance to review Michel Fiffe’s Bloodstrike: Brutalists. For one, I worried my lack of familiarity with the finer points of the original Bloodstrike’s continuity left me...
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Proxima Centauri, Vol 1
Farel Dalrymple occupies a curious place in contemporary comics. Anyone who’s heard of him tends to praise his work quite lavishly, and with good reason; but he’s neither so decorated nor so ubiquitous...
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Little Bird
There's plenty to like about this new dystopian-future monthly from Image. Pick up a copy and it's easy to figure out where to start: artist Ian Bertram, whom I last encountered as a highly impressive...
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Ascender #1
Ascender is the not-so-cleverly-titled sequel to Descender, Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s critically-acclaimed, Eisner winning series. Taking place ten years after the “rip-roaring and heart-felt...
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Little Girls
So let’s talk about negative space. A very important principle throughout the fields of visual art and design, and no less important in comics where negative space often fulfills the very necessary...
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Cemetery Beach
When you read tweets about “exposition!” in reference to some tv show or movie that’s enormously popular and that everyone on the planet feels the need to weigh in on… well, there’s a reason that those...
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Thumbs #1
The opening issue of the five-issue miniseries Thumbs, by Sean Lewis and artist Hayden Sherman, mainly focuses on a sister taking her wounded brother to the hospital for medical care. The press release...
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Dry County
Rich Tommaso’s Dry County has a regular-guy protagonist, Lou Rossi, who plays at being a detective. It’s hard to blame him for this bit of make-believe after he stumbles into what anybody would...
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Sea of Stars #1
For the most part, Jason Aaron’s creative approach has been to take whatever subject matter that’s presented to him either by a genre or assignment and take it squarely into his aesthetic. His Ghost...
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Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar
Wait . . . one more for the road? OK. You talked me into it. Now, in exchange for your patience and kind forbearance I will finish this essay with my absolute best convention story. Trust me. It’s from...
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Bad Weekend
There’s a certain kind of inside baseball type of writing that has an indefinable quality that determines whether it’s good or bad. Like “movies about movies” describes all sorts of things, but movies...
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Copra #1
Accessibility is overrated! So is context. When I was myself a wee sprat just coming up in the world, most of the comics for sale at the local 7/11 seemed to operate according to the guiding principle...
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“It’s Not A Slam-Bang-Action-So-Quiet”: An Interview with Cliff Chiang and...
After 30 issues of time-traveling action, 2019 saw the conclusion of Cliff Chiang & Brian K. Vaughan's Paper Girls series. I spoke with them a few days before the final issue arrived in stores,...
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