World Comic Book Review

24th April 2024

TOE & SO LONG (review) —“Many doors lead to the same place”

Creator: 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 So Long, searching “seemingly always” … Read more

Almost American (review) —“Running in circles arrives at the same place”

Author: Ron Marz Artists: Marco Castiello, Flavio Dispenza, Juanchoi Created by Jan Neumann Aftershock, 2021-2022 TWO PEOPLE SOMETIMES make a pair. Comfortable mates. Watching the husband-and-wife couple in the first issues of ALMOST AMERICAN as they thread their way from sensitive Russian state intelligence jobs to exile, seeking a new home in America as the … Read more