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The Summer Season 2024– Comic Bookmarks Sept 1st, 2024

A look back on the reviews and news of the summer.

Scott Cederlund

Scott Cederlund

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The Summer Season 2024– Comic Bookmarks Sept 1st, 2024

So that’s a wrap on the (stealth) Summer 2024 season here at From Cover to Cover. In the fourteen weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day, I managed to write something every week– thirteen reviews and eleven Comic Bookmark link columns.

I first tried to do something similar at Panel Patter back in 2021. I remember coming close to doing a post a week that summer but plans got derailed at some point that August and didn't finish it. For some reason this past May, this year must have seemed like a good time to try to do it again. Starting the week of Memorial Day, I skipped a review just on one week in July (needed a quick break) and started the review links a week or two into June. I also missed last week for a link post but had a memorial service to go to, moved my son into college, and spent a day at CAKE.

This was almost just a test to see if I could do it— if I could get to the end of the summer having put something out there in the world every week like I used to be able to do. And it’s something to look at these links and see just what I wrote this summer. It’s not 100% successful and doesn’t cover everything that I want to write about but it feels good to be on this side of the work.

With that said, I’m taking a break for the next couple of weeks from publishing any new stuff. Consider this my late-summer break. But the site won’t be going dark during this time. I’ll be pulling out stuff from my archives and uploading a couple of old pieces a week.

So let’s take a look at what the summer looked like here at From Cover to Cover.

Reviews

Gaiman and Buckingham write the new gospel of Miracleman in The Silver Age
You’ve got to wonder what Miracleman: The Silver Age would have read like if it had come out in the 1990s instead of the 2020s.
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Feeling Gravity’s Pull in Melissa Mendes’ The Weight #13 & 14
This is one of those rare comics that makes you feel something deep and heart-wrenching. It’s painful to read; that’s part of why it’s so good.
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Barda IS — a look at Ngozi Ukazu’s new comic book BARDA.
It’s a meet-cute story set in the torture dungeons of Darkseid’s Apokolips.
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The 1990s speak to 2024 in Peter Bagge’s Hate Revisited #1
It’s 2024. Do we really need more HATE in our lives? (Answer: Yes)
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Finding the Truth in Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips’ The Enfield Gang Massacre
The title gives away what’s going to happen but The Enfield Gang Massacre is about stories as much as it is about the massacre.
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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.
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Sidestepping the Event to Tell the Story in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.
Hickman and Schiti pull away from telling the huge story that we expect and find another way to tell a character-driven story between the context of those loud battles.
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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.
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Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1
Search and Destroy is a revenge thriller you feel in your bones.
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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.
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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.
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Not Just One of the Boys-- thoughts on Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman Earth One
Morrison and Paquette challenge the power structures that are inherent to our world to try tot show a better way forward.
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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.
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News

The Comic Bookmarks- VanCAF, Emil Ferris @ CPL, new Manga Awards, Marvel fumbling Pride comic, a couple of returns to the blogosphere and more…
It’s the end of Krakoa and I feel fine.
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300,000 copies sold, Ping Pong, selling comics or produce, and more on Van CAF— Comic Bookmarks June 15, 2024
Comics link for the second week of June.
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How do you mess up Superman’s S symbol? Bad AI artwork I guess —Comic Bookmarks 6/22/2024
An AI focused week.
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Maus banned, The Beat Covers SDCC, My Hero Academia ending, and more— Comics Bookmark 6/30/2024
Maus ban. Who created Wolverine? The best selling comic of 2025 already announced. New Mignola!!!!! All that and more in this week’s links.
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Gaiman accusations, Ukazu’s next book, manga announcements, French rights to Dan Clowes, and more — Comic Bookmarks 7/7/2024
It’s July. That means all the sites start running SDCC announcements- who’s going to be there, what big signings they’ll be having, and what “major” releases they’ll be hawking. Let’s see if we can survive this month together, shall we? This week on the site,
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More on Neil Gaiman, lots of manga news, and a killer X-Men #1 review— Comic Bookmarks 7/14/2024
The comic news you need to know for July 14, 2024.
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Manga awards, Samnee and some other guy on Batman, and a bunch of reviews— Comic Bookmarks 7/21/2024
Things to read from the past week in the world of comics.
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More Jay Stephens’ comics, the classic DC Logo, Inoue’s Slam Dunk and more — Comic Bookmarks 7/28/2024
Comics news from the last week
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The launch of K-ComicsBeat, the fight against AI comics, and more— The Comic Bookmarks 8/4/2024
Your links for the post-SDCC week.
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Human Trafficking at SDCC, Original Art Market, the Stolen Art Market — Comic Bookmarks 8/11/2024
Let’s start off with usual with what was happening around here this week before diving into the news and reviews of the week. It’s About The Ethics of Super Powers in Gillen and Wijngaard’s Power Fantasy #1Relaxed but always on edge until the narrative bomb drops, you can
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The Apple Tax Hits Patreon, Comics’ Award Season Continue, a Zoe Thorogood Poetry Comic on Instagram, and more -- The Comic Bookmarks Aug 18th, 2024
The summer must end but not yet. There’s still a few weeks left to it. This week on the site, I explored John Porcellino’s latest issue of King-Cat Comics & Stories. A Great Comic for the Dog Days of Summer- King-Cat Comics & Stories #83 by John PorcellinoCartooning as a worldview, as
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