The Marvel Rundown: The Nature of Freedom and Justice is Challenged in CAPTAIN AMERICA...
This week, two Marvel #1's shipped and they both have one thing in common: amazing cliffhangers that are the product of a long period of careful foreshadowing and preparation. I love it when good plans come together, and boy do they ever in Captain America #1 and Nighthawk #1.
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War...
The Marvel Rundown: Civil War II #0 exceeds expectations
Civil War II is a Marvel comic so big that one prequel issue can't possibly cover all the details of the conflict's catalyst. This event, which pits Captain...
Review: Tracing Dylan Horrocks
This collection of work from acclaimed New Zealand cartoonist Dylan Horrocks goes as far back as 1986, and it compiles a trajectory that makes a...
The Marvel Rundown: Is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther Too Opaque to Love?
The first issue of Black Panther, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic), drawn by Brian Stelfreeze (Wednesday Comics) and colored by Laura Martin (Thor) was a...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...
Review: How did I miss Andrea Tsurumi???
I’m ashamed to admit that prior to reading Why Would You Do That? from Hic and Hoc, which will debut at TCAF this weekend,...
The Marvel Rundown: Is Marvel’s newest take on the Thunderbolts punishing?
This week in The Marvel Rundown, we're taking a look at a shiny pair of new #1s. First, we examine The Punisher, a series about...
Review: Brecht Evens and the complications of growing up
Unfolding like a children’s book gone horribly wrong, Brecht Evens’ Panther begins with the death of Christine’s cat and the appearance what might be...
Review: Ludovic Debeurme’s Renee looks right into the abyss
In 2006’s Lucille, French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme gave a surreal and somber tone to a doomed love story, following the individual wrecked lives of...
Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like...
The Marvel Rundown: Is The Uncanny Inhumans worth your dollars?
This week on The Marvel Rundown nothing is new...so that means we can just hang up this column and leave it out to dry...right?...
