From the Archives: The Micronauts #1-12 by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden
As Akira Kurosawa is to Star Wars, George Lucas is to The Micronauts, Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden’s 1979 comic series that was based on a toy line.
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Lost Reflections on a Photograph in Paco Roca's Return to Eden
In Paco Roca’s new book, each generation just wants to see their mothers smile.
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My Claremont Year- The End
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It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys
It’s weirdly prophetic to read 20th Century Boys in 2024, looking back on the last decade and wondering how we missed Urasawa’s possible warning of all of this.
Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
From Cover to Cover’s Favorite Comics of 2023
James, Mike and Scott take a look at our favorite comics of 2023.
The Devil Redux in Matt Wagner's Grendel Devil By The Deed Master’s Edition
Just because you can return to the original story doesn’t mean that you have to.
My Claremont Year- Inferno (Sept/Oct)
Madelyne Pryor died in Inferno so that Jean Grey could live (and die and live again.)
Thinking About Darwyn Cooke's Parker 10 years after Slayground
There are the Parkers of the world and then there's the rest of us who live in their shadows.
One Panel- The Actress and the Bishop Throw a Party by Brian Bolland
A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.
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.
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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..
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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.
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.
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“… 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.
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My Claremont Year- May/June 2023
Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Leslie Stein's "Brooklyn's Last Secret": A Road Story about the Band You Wish You Knew
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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.
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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.