2022 From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2022 Scott and Mike take a look at their favorite comics from 2022.
2022 From Cover to Cover's 2022 Favorite Archival Editions and Collections Mike and Scott take a look at some of their favorite collected editions from 2022.
Casanova Frankenstein Can a kid just be a kid? Thoughts on Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce's How To Make A Monster Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce map out the childhood trauma that forges the person we become, allowing us to accept the monster in us.
tradd moore "Go home, traveler"- thoughts on Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 (and maybe a few words on Ronin Book II #1) Tradd Moore’s artwork is strange and fantastic, inspired by pop art as much as it is by comics. He’s telling a story about magic and his art is imbued with a different kind of magic.
Kate Beaton Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Kate Beaton is giving us this insight into Kate’s story that she and the people in her life at the time don’t have. And the cruelty is that we’re even less capable of nurturing or protecting Kate than the people and systems that are part of her life.
Neil Gaiman An Introduction To the World in Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1 Young Miracleman wasn’t resurrected because of who or what he was but because one old man with too much power felt alone and rudderless in the world that he has made.
Neil Gaiman From the Archive- Miracleman: The Golden Age Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham reveal this post-superhero world through the stories and lives of normal but unsettled men and women.
alan moore Welcome the Mighty Marvel Age of Miracleman Miracleman #0 feels less like a celebration and more like a warning of what can happen to the character once Gaiman and Buckingham are finally done with him once and for all.
Chip Zdarsky Newburn Volume One by Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips’ Newburn Volume One pulls at the private eye story, operating in the established noir rules but giving us a protagonist that may be an actual bad guy.
Alex Ross The Maximalist Storytelling in Alex Ross' Fantastic Four: Full Circle It’s like Alex Ross had a homework assignment— create your own Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four story.
Week In Comics Journalism 5 Things To Read the Week- Aug 27th, 2022 Our weekly link post, covering writing about Marvel Fun and Games, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class, Naoki Urasawa's Master Keaton, Tom King's Batman and the 50th anniversary of Funky Winkerbean.
deniz camp A Politics of Dream - Thoughts on 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp, S. Morian, and Aditya Bidikar 20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
Screenshot Reviews #screenshot reviews- Dune Book 2 & Parker Girls #1 Check out our capsule reviews of Dune The Graphic Novel Book 2 and Parker Girls #1
Week In Comics Journalism (More Than) 5 Things to Read this Week Reviews from Panel Patter and Broken Frontier, Jim Woodring in the New Yorker, a Nate Garcia interview, Shelfdust does Christopher Priest Black Panther, and more in this week's set of links.
Abrams Books Simpsons Comics Return with Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 - Scary Tales and Scarier Tentacles Simpsons Comics have never had more than a paperback collection, and it's fulfilling to see the comics celebrated in such a loving way.
gengoroh tagame "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...
Grant Snider 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.
Ram V 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.
Week In Comics Journalism 5 Things To Read This Week Welcome to our somewhat re-branded link post highlighting five things we think should be on your radar from the week that was. *John Jennings' Megascope, an Abrams Imprint, is coming up on its two year anniversary. Focusing on speculative ficiton by and about people of color, the impint is home
Screenshot Reviews #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.
Tillie Walden Surviving the Teenage Apocalypse in Tillie Walden's Clementine Book One Tillie Walden's Clementine is The Breakfast Club set during a zombie apocalypse.
Week In Comics Journalism 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 #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.
Week In Comics Journalism 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.
barry windsor-smith "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.