tyler crook
Trying to Escape the Past in Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook‘s Out of Alcatraz
It’s the American dream told through the dream of freedom but struggling through the morals of its time.
Jaime Hernandez
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?
Kieron Gillen
“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?
Paul Chadwick
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.
Oscar Zarate
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.“
Kieron Gillen
The Power Fantasy #3– Mini Review
In this issue, we learn so much but realize that we know so little about this world.
Peter Bagge
Hate Revisited #4 by Peter Bagge- Mini Review
Nostalgic without the nostalgia.
kevin huizenga
The Form Is the Story in Kevin Huizenga's Fielder #3
Huizenga’s playful pages lead to the truth of his cartooning.
Ram V
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.
John Porcellino
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.
Kieron Gillen
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.
joe matt
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.