daniel warren johnson
Daniel Warren Johnson Gets To Play With Some Cool Toys in Transformers #1
This issue functions not as a reimagining of the Transformers story but as a reestablishing of it.
image comics
sean phillips
The Seductive Dive into the Underbelly of Desire and Escapism in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Night Fever
Brubaker and Phillips enter some real Hitchcockian territory, exploring an ordinary man entering into extraordinary circumstances.
Pornsak Pichetshote
Playing By The Rules in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi’s The Good Asian
If any book can live up to the legacy of “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” it’s Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi's The Good Asian.
todd mcfarlane
The Empty Writing of Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane’s two recent books lack one critical thing— actual writing.
deniz camp
A Politics of Dream - Thoughts on 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp, S. Morian, and Aditya Bidikar
20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
Tillie Walden
Surviving the Teenage Apocalypse in Tillie Walden's Clementine Book One
Tillie Walden's Clementine is The Breakfast Club set during a zombie apocalypse.
Nick Dragotta
"Bet On Your Blind Obedience!!"-- quick thoughts on Ghost Cage #1
A new comic that's full of awe and wonder but light on anything else.
Screenshot Reviews
#Screenshot Reviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25
Capsule reviews of What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25.
Week In Comics Journalism
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.
Juni Ba
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
Screenshot Reviews
#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.
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.
Screenshot Reviews
#Screenshot Reviews-- The Human Target #2 and Fire Power #18
Check out our capsule reviews of Robert Kirkman & Chris Samnee's Fire Power #18, and Tom King & Greg Smallwood's The Human Target #2
Screenshot Reviews
#Screenshot Reviews-- Newburn #1, Primordial #2, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1
Capsule reviews of Newburn #1, Primordial #1, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1.
Ed Brubaker
Just Another Awkward Holiday Break in Friday Book One: The First Day Of Christmas
In another book, Friday Fitzhugh would have been a supporting character, the girl best friend of the boy-genius detective. In the books we all probably read or had read to us, we saw the small-town detectives and their trusty sidekicks who solved all of the mysteries in Smalltown, USA.