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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From the Archives- Paul Moves Out (2005)
Rabagliati's semi-confessional story is a wonderful slice of life story that you just can't get in any other storytelling format. Rabagliati takes advantage of comic's ability to easily make the reader identify with the characters and pull them in for a most unremarkable story.
From The Archives- Jonah Hex #50 (December 2009)
Maybe Hex wants to change, maybe he doesn't. But he's never given the opportunity to choose who or what he wants to be. He's a killer, and as fate will have it, that's all he's going to remain.
From The Archives- Hellboy: The Midnight Circus by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo
Hellboy: The Midnight Circus feels like a proper Halloween story, one told late at night around a blazing campfire. Mignola, Fegredo, and Stewart keep building up the mystery of the circus as well as the creepiness of it.
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.
From the Archives- Fear Agent Omnibus Volume 1 by Rick Remender, Tony Moore, and Jerome Opeña
Fear Agent starts out of an old Wally Wood-inspired science fiction story but Remender, Moore and Opeña tell a story about the failures of one man. Space just happens to be the setting of it.
From The Archives- Harvey Kurtzman's Corpse On The Imjin
Harvey Kurtzman invited his readers into his stories by allowing them to participate in the story and not just merely reading what was presented to them.
From The Archives- Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn (1990)
Why I Hate Saturn shows a creator at the beginning of the graphic novel age leading the way and figuring out how to tell a 200 page story.
From the Archives: The End of Summer (2016)
I don't think I knew who Tillie Walden was before
From the Archives- Matt Fraction and David Aja's HAWKGUY (2012-2015)
Fraction’s Hawkeye is a bit of a loser, a man who may know everything to do during the working hours but when he punches out for the day, he’s kind of lost and bumbling. But that doesn’t mean that he still can’t find trouble to get in when he’s just trying to hang around his apartment.
From the Archives-- Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (2011)
Once upon a time, there was a dream. That dream was of
From the Archives- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1 (2004)
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