Terry Hammond 
Writer: Mike Oeming Artists: Travel Foreman, Derek Fridolfs Marvel Comics, 2006 LOVE IMPELS ME TO DESTROY you and all your ways. So states war. The purpose of war in the five-issue ARES story written by Mike Oeming, from 2006, is not about hatred, rather about securing one’s heritage, father to son, motivated by love, though … Read more
Story and art: Bao Lin Hum, Steve Blevins, Colin Chan Sirius, 1997 MELTING INTO BLACK AND WHITE feels exquisite when your eyesockets attach and draw you in like bubbling caramel. This sensation occurred to me when I opened DEMONGATE for respite to find a world of elfish youths and tart girls in pleasant landscapes, seascapes, … Read more
Creator: Howard Chaykin Image Comics, 2019 WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR in World War Two against fascism is supposed to be abundantly clear. Freedom. From an American viewpoint, the placard found at a German concentration camp, “Work makes you free,” seemed like obviously evil logic. Beginning the story here in the aftermath, in 1945, we see … Read more
Creator: Con Chrisoulis Independently published, August 2020 MINIATURIZED REPRESENTATIVE ART in painting and figures, often fashioned in jewelry and worn as a talisman, at times achieves an incredible veracity to detail to portray the likeness of the original subject, like a tiny ship in a bottle. This is the perfect effect in the graphic panels … Read more