Bill Mantlo
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.
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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.
Mike Mignola
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.
Jim Starlin
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.
Rick Remender
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.
Harvey Kurtzman
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.
Kyle Baker
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.
Tillie Walden
From the Archives: The End of Summer (2016)
I don't think I knew who Tillie Walden was before being offered a review copy of The End of Summer at Newsarama. It was actually the second printing of the book but there had been some buzz around it so I figured I'd check it out.
Marvel Comics
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.
Carl Barks
From the Archives-- Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (2011)
Once upon a time, there was a dream. That dream was of a comic website where a number of critics would be given the same book to write about. That dream was Flashmob Fridays [http://flashmobfridays.blogspot.com]. If I'm being honest, Flashmob Fridays was one of the
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
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
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