Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings
Is this Love and Rockets: The Next Generation or the continuation of an ongoing story that started over 40 years ago?
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“The music of the future needs a future to exist in.”— Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasy Volume One: The Superpowers
The question in The Power Fantasy isn’t if the world is going to end but how is it going to end?
Taking the Plunge into Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: Depth
The story of a man whose brain has been put into an alien body is the stuff of B-level science fiction, the b/w movies that we used to be able to watch on Saturday afternoons. And there’s plenty of that in Concrete: Depth but it’s not the only type of story that Paul Chadwick wants to tell.
Imaging Space and Silence in Oscar Zarate’s Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter
“Oscar Zarate is telling a story about art and the ways that it’s a life choice by making these characters face several other choices that may or may not be related to art. But with every challenge faced, with every decision made, it always comes back to Art.“
The Power Fantasy #3– Mini Review
In this issue, we learn so much but realize that we know so little about this world.
Hate Revisited #4 by Peter Bagge- Mini Review
Nostalgic without the nostalgia.
The Form Is the Story in Kevin Huizenga's Fielder #3
Huizenga’s playful pages lead to the truth of his cartooning.
The Ghost of Bourdain Haunts Ram V and Filipe Andrade's Rare Flavours
This tale itself is a feast as we travel with the demon and the filmmaker. Andrade’s art tickles all of your senses even as it only interacts with one of them.
A Great Comic for the Dog Days of Summer- King-Cat Comics & Stories #83 by John Porcellino
Cartooning as a worldview, as therapy, as confession, and as autobio.
It’s About The Ethics of Super Powers in Gillen and Wijngaard’s Power Fantasy #1
Relaxed but always on edge until the narrative bomb drops, you can see how far Gillen and Wijngaard are willing to go with this story.
One Last Dose of Joe Matt’s Self-Deprecating Humor in Peepshow #15
Joe Matt is the target of the ridicule and jokes but he’s also the one telling the jokes.
When Richard Corben met Hellboy
The humanity of Richard Corben’s Hellboy work is that it doesn’t try to spare the reader of anything.