deniz camp
The infection of Martianvision makes Absolute Martian Manhunter an interactive read because you need to engage with the art to really understand the breakdown that FBI Agent John Jones is going through.
darcy van poelgeest
The Karman Blade #1 isn’t just a comic that you read; it’s a comic that you breathe in. It clings and scratches your throat. It claws at your skin and pecks away at your eyes.
pierre-henry gomont
It’s a moment of recognizing that the past is the past and it is time to move forward.
jonathan hickman
This is the end of Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers story but not the end of his Marvel story.
Patrick Horvath
If Samantha Strong was the underdog of the first book, in Rites of Spring she’s the disease that has lain dormant in this town for years but is now itching to break confinement.
iman vellani
This is a young woman who, as seen through the art and the writing, exudes a coolness— she’s trying to be the niece that a long-lost uncle in L.A. would want.
Paul Chadwick
… this feels more like what the experience of waking up in an alien body would be— the confusion, disorientation, and fear…
Adventures in Independent Comic Book Criticism
These comics kick you, stab you with a rusty blade, and then try to gouge your eyes out. And you love every second of it.
Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber don’t portray these guys as villains. If anything, these criminals are working-class stiffs, maybe one step up from being a henchman.
At the heart of Gigs is a brewing rebellion, encouraged by Syd and fought by Ivy and others against the systems built to oppress and control.
Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…
Opening with a couple of chapters of Billy Bat comic, Naoki Urasawa exhibits a playfulness in that we have rarely seen from him before.
Maybe Ricky and Mallory have something true that in each other. In all of the hurt and pain, all of the struggle just to survive, maybe there’s a glimpse of hope for the future.
We all want the happy, normal moments but Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips explore the damaged and messy lives that we actually have.
Ezra Cain could have been Indiana Jones but he became Phillip Marlowe instead.
As he builds his pages in Faster, you need to pay attention to where Jesse Lonergan zigs in his storytelling when you expect him to zag.
More than a lot of issues of Love and Rockets, there’s a shared wavelength that Gilbert and Jaime are both operating on for these about this liminal space and time in these characters’ lives.
Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma finds room to explore different ways to fight the usual end-of-the-world battles.
Keigo Shinzo’s slice-of-life story captures the ups and downs that most of us face every day, reflecting them through our own insecurities as we watch these mismatched cousins try to navigate their lives.