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.
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?
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.
My Claremont Year- July/August 2023
Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
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.
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..
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.
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.
“… 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.
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.
My Claremont Year- May/June 2023
Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
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.