INDIE VIEW: Canopus #1 is great psychological science fiction
Canopus #1
By Dave Chisholm
Scout Comics
A person wakes up in a strange place and has no recollection of how they got there. Maybe they have amnesia, maybe just spotty recall, but part of what rests...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Man Who F#%&ed Up Time’ and ‘Stig & Tilde: Leader of...
The Man Who F#%&ed Up Time #1
Written and Lettered by John Layman
Illustrated by Karl Mostert
Colored by Dee Cuniffe
Aftershock Comics
I’ve watched and read enough adventures of The Flash to know the dire consequences of messing...
INDIE VIEW: ‘From Truth With Truth’ is ultimately empowering
From Truth With Truth
By Lawrence Lindell
A lot of people hurt inside and the longterm effects lead to damage that’s hard to just brush off. I don’t know if my generation is the last to...
INDIE VIEW: ‘At the End of Your Tether’ brings mystery to first love
At the End of Your Tether
Written by Adam Smith
Illustrated by V.V. Glass
Colored by Hilary Jenkins
Lettered by Jim Campbell
Oni Press
That first love seems so important when you’re in the middle of it, so transcendent and...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Multo’ tackles the big mystery of self
Multo
By Andrew Lorenzi
Retrofit/Big Planet
Andrew Lorenzi’s chosen focal point of autobiography to opens his cryptic book Multo is a rumination on his own history with church, spurred on from a post jog rest within one....
INDIE VIEW: ‘Year of the Rabbit’ offers hope amidst the terror of the Khmer...
Year of the Rabbit
By Tian Veasna
Drawn and Quarterly
The brutality of the Khmer Rouge and its assault on Cambodia isn’t something that comes up a lot in American thought anymore, sadly. Part of it has...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Parable of the Sower’ sets the standard for post-apocalyptic comics
Parable of the Sower
Written by Damian Duffy
Illustrated by John Jennings
Abrams Books
Adapted from Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel of the same name, Parable of the Sower is one of those works of science fiction that is...
INDIE VIEW: ‘A Letter To Jo’ captures the ordinary horror of World War...
A Letter To Jo
Written by Joseph Sieracki
Illustrated by Kelly Williams
Lettered by Taylor Esposito
Top Shelf Productions
One of the biggest stories America told itself in the mid-20th Century was the one that involved the ability of...
INDIE VIEW: ‘In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home’ provides Ipswich, Massachusetts with its...
In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home
By Kurt Ankeny
Adhouse Books
I’ve spent plenty of time in Ipswich, MA, but mostly just passing through on Rt 133 heading from Gloucester to Rt 1A onto Newburyport and...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Fights’ chronicles a society embedded with violence and neglect
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence
By Joel Christian Gill
Oni Press
Reading Fights: One Boys Triumph Over Violence hurt, I’ll just start with that. It hurt a lot and that’s the briefest testament I can give...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Audra Show’ defies expectations
The Audra Show
By Audra Stang
Radiator Comics
The Audra Show doesn’t star a character named Audra, rather it’s the work of cartoonist Audra Stang. Though she’s obviously behind the scenes and her characters are right...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Strange Ones’ maps out a walk down memory lane
The Strange Ones
By Jeremy Jusay
Gallery 13
The Strange Ones began its life in the very decade it takes place in, the 1990s, but it took 25 years for it to finally appear in this complete...
