Writer: Neil Gaiman Art: Mark Buckingham Marvel Comics, December 2022 English author Aldrous Huxley wrote the acclaimed dystopian novel Brave New World in 1931. Brave New World is a grim of all visions of the future. Social engineering, eugenics, sexless procreation, and state-sponsored drug-induced bliss are all indicia of the global society of the year … Read more
Written by Gerry Duggan Art by Greg Smallwood Published by Marvel Comics, February 2019 In the current state of comics with its millions of titles and time-lines (a.k.a. the multitude of multiverses), it is always refreshing to find a one-shot comic that tells a small (if not epic) self-contained story. With this Doctor Strange book, … Read more
Writer: Bill Mantlo Artists: Sal Buscema, Mike Mignola, Gerry Taloc Marvel Comics, 1984 STAYING YOURSELF is such a devious trick. Which part is which among I and you in a habitat habitating with a hundred eyes and voices within and without concentrating inside this moment together as one? Theoretical schizisms like this in the life … Read more
Writer: Al Ewing Artists: Stefano Caselli and Federico Blee Marvel Comics. June, 2022 At the outset: an apology. This critique mentions the names of characters and various backstories which a new reader looking for some objective narrative will not follow. In that sense, our critique entirely resembles the object of its scrutiny – it is … Read more