Darwyn Cooke Thinking About Darwyn Cooke's Parker 10 years after Slayground There are the Parkers of the world and then there's the rest of us who live in their shadows.
Brian Bolland One Panel- The Actress and the Bishop Throw a Party by Brian Bolland A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.
daniel warren johnson Daniel Warren Johnson Gets To Play With Some Cool Toys in Transformers #1 This issue functions not as a reimagining of the Transformers story but as a reestablishing of it.
Kyoko Okazaki The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s How can you have compassion for other people when you have none for yourself?
Sammy Harkham The American Dream at the End of Old Hollywood in Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the Virgin Seymour seems to be searching for something but if you asked him, I don’t know if he would be able to articulate what it is.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- July/August 2023 Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
matt kindt The Spy Who Could Be You (But Hopefully Isn't)— Matt Kindt’s Spy Superb Matt Kindt hides what may be the greatest Spy Superb in plain site of everyone— someone who is so bad at everything that he may actually be good at being a spy.
tradd moore Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore Tradd Moore has synthesized the vocabulary of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with Mike Mignola and Jim Woodring’s sense of time, space, and movement..
Jay Stephens Too Cute to Be Scary or Too Scary to be Cute?— Jay Stephens’ Dwellings #1 Somehow, these stories manage to be disturbingly dark but adorably cute.
Siyuan Wen Advance Review: We Will No Longer Have To Cover Each Other’s Wounds by Siyuan Wen Call it empathy or just a collective response to loss but Wen’s pages draw you into Anna and Wayde’s presences to create a triangular bond between the two characters and the reader.
tatsuki fujimoto “… So Film Me Until My Dying Breath.”- Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto Whether it’s to protect himself or his characters, Tatskuki Fujimoto sets up this distance, holding his audience back from being there with these two.
Jenna Cha Learning To See the Unseen in Jenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler's The Sickness Chapter One Jenna Cha creates a realism in the things that we can’t see.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- May/June 2023 Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
sean phillips The Seductive Dive into the Underbelly of Desire and Escapism in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Night Fever Brubaker and Phillips enter some real Hitchcockian territory, exploring an ordinary man entering into extraordinary circumstances.
G. Willow Wilson Poison Ivy: The Virtuous Cycle - A Dark and Complex Journey of Revenge and Redemption Poison Ivy has lost something and this trip is her attempt to regain it. It’s more than just her powers that are lost; it’s her direction.
Noah van Sciver Noah Van Sciver Explores Childhood Turmoil and the Power of a Good Comic in Maple Terrace #1 Through captivating artwork and a narrative self-portrait, Noah Van Sciver explores the impact of fear and the transformative power of Spawn #5.
Rick Veitch Rick Veitch's The One: A Cold War Comic Reflecting Today's Superhero Culture and Humanity's Struggle for Unity Rick Veitch's The One challenges the notion of superhero power, reflecting the failures of a broken world.
joe kessler The Gull Yettin is a Minimalist Masterpiece Form is at the heart of Kessler’s art. As free-flowing, and perhaps occasionally haphazard as it might seem on first blush, it is ultimately an exercise in precision.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- March/April 2023 This period around 1982/1983 marked a shift in the X-Men characters themselves, turning them from superheroes into characters who are often wrestling with themselves as much as they are the bad guys.
leslie stein Leslie Stein's "Brooklyn's Last Secret": A Road Story about the Band You Wish You Knew Experience the Ultimate Hangout with Major Threat As They Hit the Road For a Summer Tour
rob kirby Getting the same tax breaks as the heterosexuals- a look at Rob Kirby's Marry Me a Little Rob Kirby's “Marry Me a Little” Sheds Light on the Daily Struggles of Queer Identity in America.
tatsuki fujimoto Good and Bad Days in Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back 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.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- February 2023 Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.
Tom King The Dead and the Dying in The Human Target #12 The Human Target #12 is about saying goodbye without letting go.
Richard McGuire Explore the Mystery of Time in Richard McGuire's Here (1989) Take a trip through time in Richard McGuire's Here.
