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.
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joe kessler
The Gull Yettin is a Minimalist Masterpiece
Form is at the heart of Kessler’s art. As free-flowing, and perhaps occasionally haphazard as it might seem on first blush, it is ultimately an exercise in precision.
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.
2023
23 Reads for 2023
Mike picks 23 upcoming graphic novels, series, and collections that should be on your radar for 2023.
Pornsak Pichetshote
Playing By The Rules in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi’s The Good Asian
If any book can live up to the legacy of “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” it’s Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi's The Good Asian.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- January 2023
Chris Claremont's earliest X-Men stories chart a new course for superhero comics.