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.
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Surviving the Teenage Apocalypse in Tillie Walden's Clementine Book One
Tillie Walden's Clementine is The Breakfast Club set during a zombie apocalypse.
"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- 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.
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.
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.
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-- 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-- 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.
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.