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Criminal #11
Maybe some kind of line graph would represent this best? The older I get, the happier I am that stuff like this exists, while the less happy I am to actually read it. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are...
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Let’s Get Physical: An Interview With Elsa Charretier
It's easy to take the internet for granted these days. But then, completely by chance, you’ll come across something wonderful, as when a retweet showed me Elsa Charretier’s Batgirl 66 sketch, causing...
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Fire Power: Prelude
Let me begin by saying that I have a great deal of respect for Robert Kirkman. His qualifications at this late date go without saying. Whether or not you’ve ever been a fan of The Walking Dead in any...
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Hedra
Let’s talk about space. Not outer space, or rather, not directly. I’m talking more about the space on the page. You know, the area on which an artist draws. Every inch of the paper is empty space when...
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Pulp
Pulp, the latest collaboration between Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (with coloring by Jacob Phillips, who only gets better with each project), is a rather typical work for the pair. Despite the...
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First Knife
It is the year 3241 and things kind of suck. There was a Great Disaster, see, maybe you’ve heard about it, it’s called the Anthropocene. Some other stuff happened too, between then and now, though the...
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“It Is Rare For Them Not To All Run Together In My Mind, Assuming I Recall...
Stuart Immonen has been making comics for more than three decades and in that time he’s become not just one of the great superhero artists, not just one of the great science fiction comics artists, but...
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Big Girls # 1
Big Girls revisits familiar ideas and tropes in our collective and popular imagination but repackages them in order to center women as simultaneously larger than life characters and the saviors of our...
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The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides
In a recent issue of Jason Aaron and R. M. Guéra’s series of twice-told biblical tales, The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides #3, Aaron doesn’t give a “fuck,” he gives eighteen, exactly, along with four...
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Planet Paradise
This one starts with a billboard hung above a dense set of skyscrapers and rush hour commute, advertising the conceptual namesake of the book, and then it goes on and on, depicting a hostile world of...
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The Department of Truth
The Department of Truth volume 1 will leave you feeling disoriented, confused, and incredulous, but is that the point? The creative team consisting of writer James Tynion IV, artist Martin Simmonds,...
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The Good Asian
Ah, representation - how unproblematic! If you’ve never had the joy of seeing your marginalized community constantly misrepresented in the media and throughout pop culture, well, let me tell you, it’s...
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Blue In Green
Ram V and Anand RK’s second original graphic novel together, last year’s Blue In Green, newly in its second printing, with an Eisner win for the art team, uses jazz and death as a counterpoint to their...
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