Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...
From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...
Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the...
Review: Slavery exists and Vannak Anan Prum asks you to not turn away from...
Americans are made to be well aware that the big wide world is fraught with danger. Especially for Americans. When we hear about murders,...
Review: ‘The Great North Wood’ is a magnificent meditation on hidden history
As a meditation on man’s relationship with nature and the landscape, and the poetic ironies inherent in this relationship, The Great North Wood presents...
REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN HOSTILE TAKEOVER is a SHIELD File’s Worth of PlayStation’s Peter Parker Goodness.
We're just a few short weeks away from Marvel's Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 putting Marvel back as a major player in the console gaming...
Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence
Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut...
Review: ‘Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles’ offers heartbreaking tenderness within the satire
If you had told me as recently as a year ago that I would be in love with a comic about Snagglepuss not due...
Review: Fear of a white planet in ‘The Danes’
In The Danes, Belgian cartoonist Clarke’s suspense-thriller with science fiction tones, takes an accepted apocalyptic trope, a devastating pandemic, and turns it upside down....
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...
Review: The gorgeous ‘A Sea of Love’ is both epic and intimate
Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad...
Review: Catherine Meurisse offers raw honesty about the Charlie Hebdo massacre
So dire has the world situation been, even on the smallest levels, that the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff seems like it happened...
Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...
Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy...
