independent The Life and Times of Ricky Lawless— Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips Giant Size Criminal #1 Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip explore the tragedy of living under the sins of our fathers.
steve mcniven Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell Frank Miller casts a long shadow over this story and Charles Soule and Steve McNiven know it.
Kieron Gillen Die Loaded #1 by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans— The Bones Continue to Roll Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans remind us that some stories just don’t end.
Jason The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In Trieste Jason doesn’t give you any more than he has to and that’s often less than you think you need.
caroline cash Off to College in Caroline Cash's Adventure Time Alternate Universe Story So if we know that the story is a meet-cute story, that allows Cash to focus on how we move through this story.
giovanna fabi Loving the Grid in Giovanna Fabi’s Perfect Love (mini kuš! #133) Giovanna Fabi uses her artwork to evoke so many feelings out of the reader.
Nick Dragotta The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.
rob williams We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World The perfect comic that we need in 2025.
gerard way Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1 The Umbrella Academy has been a family story from the start, using the language of superheroes to explore family dynamics.
gerard way Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens Gerard Way and Shawn Simon doing their obscure Vertigo book, just for Dark Horse. So who better to get to draw than Chris Weston?
tyler crook Trying to Escape the Past in Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook‘s Out of Alcatraz It’s the American dream told through the dream of freedom but struggling through the morals of its time.