The Genre-Bending World of Hinterkind (Reviewing the V. 1 TPB, “The Waking World”)
Vertigo's new fantasy-ish title Hinterkind recently released its first trade paperback collection, The Waking World. If you only glanced at the covers, it's probably not...
Advance Review: Inhuman #1 bears an Uncanny resemblance – updated
From the creative team of Charles Soule, Joe Madureira, Marte Gracia and Clayton Cowles, Inhuman #1 finally sees release this week, and Marvel have...
REVIEW: NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette by Nathan W. Pyle
NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette
Nathan W. Pyle
William Morrow/HarperCollins
$10, 144 pages
ISBN 978-0-06-230311-0
I kept expecting this book of cartoon tips to be funny and it wasn’t. Then I realized it wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to be what the title says: tips and etiquette.
Review: The Nonadult Delight of Miss Hennipin
The idea for Miss Hennipin, a new release from Sonatina's Andy Douglas Day, began as a summer day's unassuming illustrative dalliance and briskly developed...
REVIEW: Avengers Undercover #1– out of the arena
Written by: Dennis Hopeless
Art by : Kev Walker
Colors by: Jean Francois Beaulieu
Publisher by: Marvel
By Matt O'Keefe
Avengers Undercover is a direct sequel to Avengers Arena,...
Review: Marvel’s got backstory in New Batch of #1s (Moon Knight, Magneto, Wolverine &...
Marvel released three new #1s this week. Revivals of Moon Knight and Magneto and a new first issue of Wolverine & The X-men that...
The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’
Just So Happens
By Fumio Obata
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Upon first impression of Fumio Obata's new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck...
Mike Taylor: NO/FUTURE
“Culture seeks narrators and fiction is a narrative prerogative.”
This quote is supplemented above a two image spread, each featuring brushstrokes of a blackened sea...
The 2013 Comics Happy List
I just can’t muster the hubris to do a Top 10 list. Lists are subject to the tastes of the reviewer(s). One person’s top...
Grant Morrison on Deluxe Happy! The Extended Edition
Look what arrived in my post today, and just in time for Christmas too! The just released Deluxe edition of Happy! with those all...
Comic of the Week: My So-Called Secret Identity
One fiercely intelligent young woman, one city in which superheroes and villains are the norm, and one comic in which diversity is as natural...
Thought Bubble 2013: A Reading List in Review!
This isn't a convention write-up. Instead, it's a review roundup of every new comic I came across at Thought Bubble 2013. Because I want...
