Steve Lieber
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.
mark mosedale
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
Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…
naoki urasawa
Opening with a couple of chapters of Billy Bat comic, Naoki Urasawa exhibits a playfulness in that we have rarely seen from him before.
Ed Brubaker
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.
tate brombal
We all want the happy, normal moments but Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips explore the damaged and messy lives that we actually have.
Jacob Phillips
Ezra Cain could have been Indiana Jones but he became Phillip Marlowe instead.
It’s weirdly prophetic to read 20th Century Boys in 2024, looking back on the last decade and wondering how we missed Urasawa’s possible warning of all of this.
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
How can you have compassion for other people when you have none for yourself?
Fujimoto comes back to the image of the girls working on their manga many times and it has a ring of truth to it like he’s speaking from his own experience, bordering somewhere along the sacred and the mundane.
Adventures in Comic Book Criticism
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.
Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan reintroduce The Question only to tear him down again before they can build him back up.
Jeff Lemire's stories remain based in rural settings and contain a timeless quality to them, as if these places always have and always will exist.
Have you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?
Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s comic is a reminder and a call to arms.
Crickets #9 contains many stories and yet feels like a singular, unified comic book.
There were days during childhood that were full of endless possibility and that’s the nostalgia that Linus Liu is remembering here. Cat Mask Boy is the story of a simpler time, before every kid had a cellphone or a traveling sports team to keep them occupied.
The year that was...
Total THB doesn’t feel like a 30 year old comic book.