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This week's featured reviews of recent comics by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccalleto, Hayden Sherman, and Yourei Ono.

Nate Powell

The Poetry of Nate Powell's Save It For Later

But the soul of the book is the splash pages, where Powell's words fall effortlessly down the page and the art mesmerizes the reader into contemplation.

Paul Chadwick

From the Archives- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1 (2004)

This piece was originally published at Mediasharx, the first or second site that I ever wrote for. If I remember correctly, Mediasharx was a spinoff of Zentertainment, one of the first popular entertainment news websites. I think I may have started at the last month of Zentertainment before that site

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Kieron Gillen

Eternals Gotta Eternal in Kieron Gillen, Esad Ribic, and Matthew Wilson’s Eternals: Only Death Is Eternal

As Gillen writes them, The Eternals fall somewhere between the worshipped and the worshippers. They’ve been abandoned by their gods who they vowed to protect; the Celestials recognize the rise of human superbeings as taking over the functions of the Eternals.

Chip Zdarsky

The Inevitable Race in Chip Zdarsky and Elsa Charretier's We Run

In late June 2020, I sat in a hospital room with my mother as we waited for my father to die. He had spent the previous two months in and out (mostly in) of hospitals as the world fell apart around us. Just the day before, we had to make

The Rusted Staple Theorem of Comic Criticism

Or Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.Twitter, please show me content for two English majors who run a comic blog . . . 👀🤯🧐 https://t.co/ILclU99t7o — From Cover To Cover (@FromCovToCov) October 17, 2021 Hint: We're the two English majors. Just what the internet needs-- another

The Reading List

The Still-To-Be-Named Link Post- September 26th, 2021

While we're not officially launching the site for another month or so, I want to try to get into the habit of weekly link posts so here's the first one. Welcome to From Cover to Cover. Hope you survive the experience. ** If you're new around here (and who isn't?,) there

Fabio Moon

From the Archives: Daytripper #1

But for all of its similarities, Daytripper #1 lacks the excitement and joy of life found in Bá and Moon's short stories and ends up dragging through the first issue, which is more of a prologue or framing sequence to the larger story that the twins will be telling over the next nine issues.

Rebecca Kraatz

From The Archives- Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar

Biography as fragments of a memory. Rebecca Kraatz's House of Sugar is a melancholy look back at her childhood with the familial and social forces that shaped her through growing up. Told in short, four panel increments, Kraatz builds up the fragments and moments of her life, giving us insight

Will Eisner

From The Archives: New York The Big City

While either sitting on the front stoop of an apartment building to riding the subway, shoulder to shoulder with strangers, to enjoying a summer day with an open fire hydrant to cool you off, Eisner catches the essence of life in the big city. New York, The Big City (trade

TAIYO MATSUMOTO

From the Archives: Taiyo Matsumoto's Sunny V2

Taiyo Matsumoto has this shifting lens of reality. In this comics, he continually pushes the way we experience his drawings. No. 5 was manga inspired by Moebius. Tekkon Kinkreet was a wild trip viewing the city through the exaggerated experiences of children and GoGo Monster turned an elementary school into