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More Diamond, Alpha Flight, and the Quest for a Good Superman Comi — The Comic Bookmark, June 15th, 2025

More Diamond, Alpha Flight, and the Quest for a Good Superman Comi — The Comic Bookmark, June 15th, 2025

Forgot to hit publish this morning so this is going up late. It’s still out on Sunday so that counts for something. Previously on FC2C Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1The Umbrella Academy has been a family story from

Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

The Family Circus, A Defense of R. Crumb, a New Distributor, and More-- The Comic Bookmarks June 8th, 2025

The Family Circus, A Defense of R. Crumb, a New Distributor, and More-- The Comic Bookmarks June 8th, 2025

The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0

The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0

RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025

RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025

More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3

More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3

RIP Butch Guice, Jenny Blake's First Comic Book Credit, the Diamond Soap Opera and More... The Comic Bookmarks-- May 11th, 2025

RIP Butch Guice, Jenny Blake's First Comic Book Credit, the Diamond Soap Opera and More... The Comic Bookmarks-- May 11th, 2025

2025 Eisner Award Nominees

“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers

“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers

The question in The Power Fantasy isn’t if the world is going to end but how is it going to end?

A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and Bellaire— Mini Review

The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and Bellaire— Mini Review

Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

The Power Fantasy #3– Mini Review

The Power Fantasy #3– Mini Review

With Great Power, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda... thoughts on Jonathan Hickman and Macro Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1.

With Great Power, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda... thoughts on Jonathan Hickman and Macro Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1.

The Ghost of Bourdain Haunts Ram V and Filipe Andrade's Rare Flavours

The Ghost of Bourdain Haunts Ram V and Filipe Andrade's Rare Flavours

FEATURED

One Last Dose of Joe Matt’s Self-Deprecating Humor in Peepshow #15

One Last Dose of Joe Matt’s Self-Deprecating Humor in Peepshow #15

Joe Matt is the target of the ridicule and jokes but he’s also the one telling the jokes.

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s

“… So Film Me Until My Dying Breath.”- Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

“… So Film Me Until My Dying Breath.”- Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

The Gull Yettin is a Minimalist Masterpiece

The Gull Yettin is a Minimalist Masterpiece

Welcome to the Party in Julie Doucet's Time Zone J

Welcome to the Party in Julie Doucet's Time Zone J

Teenage Boredom in R. Kikou Johnson's Night Fisher

Teenage Boredom in R. Kikou Johnson's Night Fisher

Cease the Means of Production - The First Issue of Juni Ba's Monkey Meat

Cease the Means of Production - The First Issue of Juni Ba's Monkey Meat

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From Cover to Cover’s Favorite Comics of 2024

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Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

The Ghost of Bourdain Haunts Ram V and Filipe Andrade's Rare Flavours

The Ghost of Bourdain Haunts Ram V and Filipe Andrade's Rare Flavours

Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1

Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1

Sidestepping the Event to Tell the Story in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.

Sidestepping the Event to Tell the Story in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.

Barda IS — a look at Ngozi Ukazu’s new comic book BARDA.

Barda IS — a look at Ngozi Ukazu’s new comic book BARDA.

Lost Reflections on a Photograph in Paco Roca's Return to Eden

Lost Reflections on a Photograph in Paco Roca's Return to Eden

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Living Outside of the Law in Inio Asano’s Mujina Into the Deep Volume 1

Living Outside of the Law in Inio Asano’s Mujina Into the Deep Volume 1

The opening is action-packed, a thrill ride that gets us into Inio Asano’s book but it’s not the story that Asano is telling.

A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

On Junji Ito

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Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1

Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1

It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys

It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys

Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto

Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s

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Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1

The Umbrella Academy has been a family story from the start, using the language of superheroes to explore family dynamics.

The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0

The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0

More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3

More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3

Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens

Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens

Trying to Escape the Past in Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook‘s Out of Alcatraz

Trying to Escape the Past in Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook‘s Out of Alcatraz

Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings

Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings

“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers

“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers

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The Big Tease That Is Summer of Superman Special #1

The Big Tease That Is Summer of Superman Special #1

Sometimes, you just want to read a Superman comic. It's a bit surprising how hard that is to do without getting pulled into all kinds of other drama.

It’s Time to Wake Up- Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 by Deniz Camp & Javier Rodriguez

It’s Time to Wake Up- Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 by Deniz Camp & Javier Rodriguez

Ram V, Riccardo Federici, and Evan Cagle Build On Jack Kirby in The New Gods #3

Ram V, Riccardo Federici, and Evan Cagle Build On Jack Kirby in The New Gods #3

The Breaking of a Good Man— a look at Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov’s The Punisher: Valley Forge, Valley Forge

The Breaking of a Good Man— a look at Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov’s The Punisher: Valley Forge, Valley Forge

The Fight for Justice in Absolute Superman #1

The Fight for Justice in Absolute Superman #1

The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and Bellaire— Mini Review

The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and Bellaire— Mini Review

Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

Absolute Wonder Woman #1— Mini review

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More Diamond, Alpha Flight, and the Quest for a Good Superman Comi — The Comic Bookmark, June 15th, 2025

More Diamond, Alpha Flight, and the Quest for a Good Superman Comi — The Comic Bookmark, June 15th, 2025

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The Family Circus, A Defense of R. Crumb, a New Distributor, and More-- The Comic Bookmarks June 8th, 2025

The Family Circus, A Defense of R. Crumb, a New Distributor, and More-- The Comic Bookmarks June 8th, 2025

RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025

RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025

RIP Butch Guice, Jenny Blake's First Comic Book Credit, the Diamond Soap Opera and More... The Comic Bookmarks-- May 11th, 2025

RIP Butch Guice, Jenny Blake's First Comic Book Credit, the Diamond Soap Opera and More... The Comic Bookmarks-- May 11th, 2025

Neil Gaiman Just Won’t Go Away, Not So Fast Alliance, and more… The Comic Bookmarks— April 27th, 2025

Neil Gaiman Just Won’t Go Away, Not So Fast Alliance, and more… The Comic Bookmarks— April 27th, 2025

Think Twice Before Traveling to the States, FIBD Boycott, Star Wars Kickstarter and More-- The Comic Bookmarks April 20th, 2025

Think Twice Before Traveling to the States, FIBD Boycott, Star Wars Kickstarter and More-- The Comic Bookmarks April 20th, 2025

Everything’s Broken, From Immigration to Tariffs, but the Comics Are Still Good— The Comic Bookmarks April 6th, 2025

Everything’s Broken, From Immigration to Tariffs, but the Comics Are Still Good— The Comic Bookmarks April 6th, 2025

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