I Don’t Think I Can Ever Eat A Pierogi Again- thoughts on Nate Garcia’s Muscle Horse Part of the fun of this comic is the feeling that Garcia is going to do something completely messed up on the next page. And then again on the next page, and the page after that, and the page after that.
Matt Wagner Catching Up With the Devil in Grendel Devil’s Odyssey by Matt Wagner As Wagner writes this story of Grendel encountering these worlds and civilizations to determine if they fall in the parameters of his mission, there’s an unspoken question of his own place in this future that he’s trying to ensure. Is he a real boy?
jim rugg Some Nice Design in Jim Rugg's Hulk Grand Design Monster There are just these clips and memories of old comics. This is not a Hulk comic but a comic about Hulk comics, a snake eating its tail.
Nick Dragotta "Bet On Your Blind Obedience!!"-- quick thoughts on Ghost Cage #1 A new comic that's full of awe and wonder but light on anything else.
Week In Comics Journalism The Week In Comics Journalism— March 19, 2022 A look at some of the news in the world of comic books from the past week.
John Porcellino Letters from Beloit, Wi.- catching up with John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comix & Stories #81 King-Cat Comix & Stories #81 is that letter from a long-distance pen-pal, catching up with them after not hearing from them since last year.
#screenshotreviews- What's the Furthest Place From Here #4 and The Nice House On The Lake #7 Capsule reviews of What's The Furthest Place From Here #4 and The Nice House On The Lake #7.
George Perez What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and George Perez’s JLA/Avengers? An appreciation of George Pérez's stellar work on the JLA/Avengers crossover.
Lale Westvind Getting Caught Up In the Hands of Lale Westvind's GRIP How do you even begin to describe the ways that Lale Westvind plays with time, with movement, and with space in this comic? She molds form and space around this woman in exaggerated ways that signal this journey’s spiritual elements as much as it does its physical one.
Week In Comics Journalism The Week In Comics Journalism- February 5, 2022 A look at a some of the writing about comics from the past week.
R. Kikou Johnson Teenage Boredom in R. Kikou Johnson's Night Fisher Johnson’s story of Loren’s “lost” senior year, marked by drug use and criminality, shows a kid who isn’t bad but just looking for something to fill a void. With no personally-held goals, the influence of other people gives Loren something to do other than school and yard work.
#Screenshot Reviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25 Capsule reviews of What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 22, 2022 A look at the week in comic journalism, including reviews of Nod Away, Enter the Blue, and To Eat and To Drink, as well as a profile on the great Trevor Von Eeden.
Mike Mignola From The Archives- Hellboy: The Midnight Circus by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo Hellboy: The Midnight Circus feels like a proper Halloween story, one told late at night around a blazing campfire. Mignola, Fegredo, and Stewart keep building up the mystery of the circus as well as the creepiness of it.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 15, 2022 Our weekly look at the week that was in comics. At least, the stuff that jumped out at us.
simon hanselmann Simon Hanselmann Hopes You're OK and So Do We For the past two years, we’ve seen our art and entertainment trying to adapt and react to our times but no one has done it quite like Simon Hanselmann.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 8, 2022 Remember when the start of the year was a "slow news week?" Yeah, we don't either. Here's a selection of what we found interesting in the last week.
#screenshotreviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Rorschach, and Asadora V4 Check out our capsule reviews of Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg's What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Naoki Urasawa's Asadora! Volume 4, and Tom King and Jorge Fornés Rorschach.
crowdfunding Who We Support- January 2022 One of the main things that Mike and I talked about when we were first hatching FC2C was our intentionality in supporting comic creators, comic journalists, and comic critics. And that also includes our monetary support through various crowdfunding campaigns.
Jim Starlin From The Archives-- The Strange Life and Death of Adam Warlock If Lee/Kirby and Thomas/Kane were telling tales about an innocent childhood of the character, Jim Starlin was dealing with the moody teenage version of Adam Warlock.
2021 From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2021 Here are our favorites from 2021, a year that saw a lot of great books.Please know this post serves to celebrate our favorites, and while we read a bunch, we certainly don't read everything. Really, there's just too much out there.
Peter Bagge Peter Bagge's Warning in 2010's OTHER LIVES Still Has Meaning Today Peter Bagge’s Other Lives explores our desires to be someone other than who we are, both in a virtual setting but he recognized back then that desire is something that exists beyond the keyboard and computer screen.
Rick Remender From the Archives- Fear Agent Omnibus Volume 1 by Rick Remender, Tony Moore, and Jerome Opeña Fear Agent starts out of an old Wally Wood-inspired science fiction story but Remender, Moore and Opeña tell a story about the failures of one man. Space just happens to be the setting of it.
#Screenshot Reviews-- The Human Target #2 and Fire Power #18 Check out our capsule reviews of Robert Kirkman & Chris Samnee's Fire Power #18, and Tom King & Greg Smallwood's The Human Target #2
Harvey Kurtzman From The Archives- Harvey Kurtzman's Corpse On The Imjin Harvey Kurtzman invited his readers into his stories by allowing them to participate in the story and not just merely reading what was presented to them.
