Creator: Koren Shadmi Humanoids, August 2023 This title is a harsh, embarrassing, wonderful documentary. All Tomorrow’s Parties details the rise and fall of avant-garde 1960s band The Velvet Underground. This is publisher Humanoids’ promotional blurb: An examination of some of New York rock’n’roll’s most iconic figures—The Velvet Underground & Andy...
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Writer: Chip Zdarsky Artist: Daniel Acuna Marvel Comics, January 2024 Stop us if you have heard this one before. A thrillingly dark new vision of the Avengers! In a gleaming new world of prosperity, Captain America is no more. But Steve Rogers still exists, floating through an America where freedom...
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Words: Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark Art: Ramon K. Perez, Igor Monti Image 2023 DARK WET PAVEMENT, shoe-leather rhythm, overcoat and fedora turned against the weather, horn case in hand, making your way here in the bowels of the city on the edge of the high life, poor as you have...
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Creator: Matthew Hill Independently published, March 2024 Tara Caught a Tom: An auto-bio-graphic-novel is a 32 page web comic from author Matthew Hill, which the author himself summarizes as “Tom makes a name for himself, albeit not in the best way.” While the synopsis is a functional description of the...
Read MoreWriter: Justin Jordan // Paul Jenkins Artists: Jorge Coelho, Tamra Bonvillain // Mark Buckingham et al. Boom! Studios 2015 // Marvel 2000 STAY AWAKE ALWAYS and see how it feels. Three days, even with good drugs to stay alert, details swirl and one starts to dream. This is the reality...
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Written by Tony Fleecs and Illustrated by Tim Seely Image Comics, February 2024 An enthralling crime noir superhero drama that is the culmination of the best parts of the 90s era of comics, complimented by a modern-age approach to storytelling, is not only stunning to look at but constantly sets...
Read MoreCreator: Jacob Michael Campbell Illustrator: Alexis Vivallo Crude Rose 2023 AN ADOLESCENT DREAM plays with images of doors scattered in the distance across a rolling meadow, and zooms in on two traveling partners on the move, a doughboy‑guy with sharp toes and fingers named Toe, and a curly cat named...
Read MoreWriters: Valentina Kay , Daniele Bonfanti Art: ChatGPT / Dalle Bee Lab Studios, February 2024 Urlan Cosmic Cat is a brand-new comic book “experiment,” published by Bee Lab Studios and written by Daniele Bonfanti and Valentina Key. The book is an ambitious venture that attempts to revolutionize the approach to storytelling by...
Read MoreAnthology Caliber Comics 1993 A CHANCE REFERENCE sent me to the 1990s to investigate NEGATIVE BURN, a phenomenal anthology of legendary and legerdemain artists in black and white, still smoldering in the back stacks at your local comic shop. It was new to me. Maybe to you, too. Early issues...
Read MoreWriters: Gerry Conway, David A. Kraft, Bob Rozakis Artist: Pablo Marcos, Vince Colleta, Ernie Chua, Rich Buckler, Bob Layton, Dick Ayers, Jack Abel, Joe Orlando, Mike Vosburg, Bob Smith, Bob McLeod DC Comics, May/June 1976 – June/July 1977 The subversion of DC Comics’ title The Secret Society of Super-Villains, published...
Read MoreCreator: J.G. Birdsall Art: Bora Orcal et al. Independent, 2019: collected edition 2024 THE MODERN PREMISE of segregation, where the rich escape the wretched crust of humanity into gated communities, resort hotels, tropical islands, jet streams above the clouds, and whole planets in the nearby galaxy, plays out in VENUS...
Read MoreCreator: Jim Mahfood Coloring: Justin Stewart Image Comics, 2017 THUMPING BEATS and screeching melodies push you through the swooshing tunnel of GRRL SCOUTS: MAGIC SOCKS by wired artist Jim Mahfood, till you end prostrate and exhausted, trembling on a blood‑soaked street. Your bruised mind looks warily around as shredded debris...
Read MoreCreator: Adam Suerte with contributions by Mark Bodē, Sophie Crumb, Myke Maldonado, Jason Mitchell Urban Folk Art Studios 2022 BODY AS CANVAS goes along with walls as canvas, paper, t‑shirts, anything that takes ink. I was pleased to find artist creator Adam Suerte in BROOKLYN TATTOO, a 150-page bio-graphic of...
Read MoreWriter: David Pepose Artist: Alex Cormack Mad Cave, January 2024 We reviewed the first issue of publisher Mad Cave’s historical thriller comic The Devil That Wears My Face last October 2023 and found it engaging enough to recommend, especially to people who enjoy well-written horror stories tackling demonic possessions. See...
Read MoreCreator, writer, producer: Malcolm Wong Artists: Guillermo A. Angel et al. Antarctic Press 2019 WAR MAKES YOU MOVE when you get caught in between. You scrape yourself out of the rubble, find your loved ones, and a few choice high-octane vehicles, and escape into the desert. This is where we...
Read MoreWriter: Jason Aaron Artist: Doug Mahnke DC Comics, November 2023-January 2024 We have admired comic book writer Jason Aaron’s work for a long time. Some of the very first reviews on this website were to do with Mr Aaron’s work on The Mighty Thor, in what we naively hoped would...
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