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.
Scott Cederlund
Missing. Presumed having a good time.
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.
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.