This Week in Comics Journalism - January 8, 2022
Remember when the start of the year was a "slow news week?" Yeah, we don't either. Here's a selection of what we found interesting in the last week.
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Cease the Means of Production - The First Issue of Juni Ba's Monkey Meat
Juni Ba questions both how much we are being manipulated, but also how willing we are to allow ourselves to be manipulated. This worldview is what makes his satire that biting
#screenshotreviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Rorschach, and Asadora V4
Check out our capsule reviews of Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg's What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Naoki Urasawa's Asadora! Volume 4, and Tom King and Jorge Fornés Rorschach.
Who We Support- January 2022
One of the main things that Mike and I talked about when we were first hatching FC2C was our intentionality in supporting comic creators, comic journalists, and comic critics. And that also includes our monetary support through various crowdfunding campaigns.
This Year in Comics Journalism
One of the concepts Scott and I tossed around as we came up with the rough draft
for From Cover to Cover is the idea of supporting the comic journalism and
critic community. The easiest way to do that, of course, is to spotlight the
writing about comics that sticks
This Week in Comics Journalism - Saying Goodbye to a Great Artist and The Year in Review
I'm not entirely sure what to say about the passing of Ryan Bodenheim. In the
world of comics, he was a dynamic artist who an aesthetic depth to some of my
favorite science fiction comics. I was reminiscing about first picking up
Halycon, my introduction to his work,
From The Archives-- The Strange Life and Death of Adam Warlock
If Lee/Kirby and Thomas/Kane were telling tales about an innocent childhood of the character, Jim Starlin was dealing with the moody teenage version of Adam Warlock.