World Comic Book Review

29th March 2024

Monroe and Murphy #1 (review) —“He needs a heart to hang onto”

Writer: Stephen Peeples Art: Nicolò Arcuti Independent, 2022 FRIENDS ARE SOMETIMES a big mystery, like a different species. Sometimes in a floating world they actually are a different species. The first issue of newly released independent strip MONROE & MURPHY gives us a fox boss, a tiger husband, a koala sidekick, and other creatures surrounding … Read more

Crisis Zone (review)

Writer and artist: Simon Hanselmann Fantagraphic Books, 2021 For those of us who have small children, Meg and Mog might be a bedtime ritual with bifurcated effects. The series, involving a witch, her cat, and a owl, started in 1972. Despite being regarded as children’s classics, the books are completely inane, guaranteed to amuse three … Read more

Emily: Emergence (Review)

Writer: Chaz K Art: Ken Bastard Futurebound Comics, December 2019 Emily: Emergence is a psychological science fiction comic written by Chaz K, with illustrations and colors provided by Ken Bastard and Nathan Lum respectively. The story revolves around the titular character who is a college student struggling with the pressure of an upcoming exam, exacerbated … Read more

Von Bach #1 (review) —“Death becomes you”

Writer: Owen Hammer Art: Mariano Navarro Color: Hernan Cabrera Hammer Comics, 2021 THE RECORD OF OUR LIVES keeps expanding with remakes. Each leap in expression from talking to writing to printing to video has aroused contemporary complaints that enormous loads of stupidity and falsehood disseminate by new means more widely than ever before. Facility outdistances … Read more