"Assuming it's about a 'boy and girl.'"- thoughts on Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors
Tagame shows us the pressure of the secrets and the truths. This book is shaped around empathy, something that Sora doesn’t think he will find...
Overanalyzing the Overexamined Life - Pausing for Grant Snider's The Art of Living
As impressed as I am about the way Snider manages to refine certain elements of his cartooning while maintaining his core minimalism, it’s the philosophy at the center of the book that requires examination.
Where Are You, Demon? Detective Comics 1062
The existential crisis that drives Batman stems from a five-second decline. This is the kind of Batman we’re working with.
5 Things To Read This Week
Welcome to our somewhat re-branded link post highlighting five things we think
#screenshot Reviews- X-Men: Hellfire Gala, Immortal X-Men #4, A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment
Before the A.X.E. event starts, let's catch up with X-Men: The Hellfire Gala, Immortal X-Men #4, and A.X.E.: Judgment Day.
Surviving the Teenage Apocalypse in Tillie Walden's Clementine Book One
Tillie Walden's Clementine is The Breakfast Club set during a zombie apocalypse.
This Week in Comics Journalism- July 9, 2022
A look at recent news in comics, including the passing of critic R.C. Harvey, a Steve Dillon retrospective, the original art collection of David Mandel, and problems calling characters "crazy."
#screenshot reviews- Batman #125 & Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: Old Man Whittier
Check out our capsule reviews of Hellboy and the BPRD: Old Man Whitter, and Batman #125, Chip Zdarsky's first issue.
This Week in Comics Journalism-- July 2nd, 2022
A look at recent news in comics, including the new Marvel Penguin Classics, Doonesbury, Gender Queer, Maus, Red Room, DC's Pride Special, and Clementine.
"A Dream of Dying" in Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X
Maybe no one told Barry Windsor-Smith that he was telling a Wolverine story because Weapon X certainly doesn't read like one.
This Week in Comics Journalism- June 19th, 2022
Look back at the week that was, including two pieces about fighting book banning, Grant Morrison and Alec Longstreth interviews, and looks at recent comics by Nate Garcia and Gary Panter.
From the Archives- Julio's Day (2013)
A simple life doesn’t necessarily equal a life that is simple as Gilbert Hernandez reminds us in Julio’s Day, the story of a man’s 100-year life that spans the 20th century.