Scott Cederlund

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.

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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.

Mirion Malle

Mirion Malle Shows Us Just How Strong We Are in This Is How I Disappear

Mirion Malle doesn’t judge her characters and asks us to also not to judge them. The book is seeking understanding, empathy, and the ability to allow ourselves to realize we don’t know everything that’s going on in our own or others’ lives.

Kyle Baker

From The Archives- Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn (1990)

Why I Hate Saturn shows a creator at the beginning of the graphic novel age leading the way and figuring out how to tell a 200 page story.

Tillie Walden

From the Archives: The End of Summer (2016)

I don't think I knew who Tillie Walden was before being offered a review copy of The End of Summer at Newsarama.  It was actually the second printing of the book but there had been some buzz around it so I figured I'd check it out. Who knew what Tillie

#Screenshot Reviews-- Newburn #1, Primordial #2, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1

Capsule reviews of Newburn #1, Primordial #1, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1.

Ed Brubaker

Just Another Awkward Holiday Break in Friday Book One: The First Day Of Christmas

In another book, Friday Fitzhugh would have been a supporting character, the girl best friend of the boy-genius detective. In the books we all probably read or had read to us, we saw the small-town detectives and their trusty sidekicks who solved all of the mysteries in Smalltown, USA.

Marvel Comics

From the Archives- Matt Fraction and David Aja's HAWKGUY (2012-2015)

Fraction’s Hawkeye is a bit of a loser, a man who may know everything to do during the working hours but when he punches out for the day, he’s kind of lost and bumbling. But that doesn’t mean that he still can’t find trouble to get in when he’s just trying to hang around his apartment.

Tom Spurgeon

Art "is how we pray to one another."

Tom Spurgeon believed in comics. He believed in art. He believed in the artists.

Carl Barks

From the Archives-- Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (2011)

Once upon a time, there was a dream.  That dream was of a comic website where a number of critics would be given the same book to write about.   That dream was Flashmob Fridays. If I'm being honest, Flashmob Fridays was one of the more fun writing experiences that I've

N.K. Jemisin

A Far Sector Discussion with Scott and Mike

What I love about the beginning of Far Sector is that it starts en media res. Here’s a brand new Lantern on a brand new planet. It’s fresh, but you have to bring a certain schema to it. You kind of need to bring certain things to it.

Rumiko Takahashi

Moving In with Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku Volume 1

As the other characters are defined more clearly by their roles in this story, Kyoko remains a mystery to the boarders and the reader. She’s clearly the responsible one in the house but it’s a reluctant responsibility.

Scott Snyder

We Tweet So You Don't Have To

This week's featured reviews of recent comics by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccalleto, Hayden Sherman, and Yourei Ono.

Paul Chadwick

From the Archives- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1 (2004)

This piece was originally published at Mediasharx, the first or second site that I ever wrote for.  If I remember correctly, Mediasharx was a spinoff of Zentertainment, one of the first popular entertainment news websites.  I think I may have started at the last month of Zentertainment before that site

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Kieron Gillen

Eternals Gotta Eternal in Kieron Gillen, Esad Ribic, and Matthew Wilson’s Eternals: Only Death Is Eternal

As Gillen writes them, The Eternals fall somewhere between the worshipped and the worshippers. They’ve been abandoned by their gods who they vowed to protect; the Celestials recognize the rise of human superbeings as taking over the functions of the Eternals.