The Week In Comics Journalism- February 5, 2022
A look at a some of the writing about comics from the past week.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.