The Heavy Pour Return with the Elixir By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021 Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.
Try Reading... ShortBox Indie Sampler By Harry Rabinowitz • November 3rd, 2021 When it comes to short, complete comics, the indie section is king.
Exploits Feature Tomie By Yussef Cole • August 31st, 2021 She is the fantasy and the nightmare, all at once.
Try Reading... Disaster Comics for My Disaster Self By Harry Rabinowitz • August 4th, 2021 3 Absurd and Wild Comics for an Absurd and Wild Summer
Try Reading... The Monster in the Woods By Harry Rabinowitz • May 7th, 2021 There’s something out there, its hungry, and it’s got a taste for kids.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Happens Next? By Phillip Russell • April 6th, 2021 Phil’s thinking about the ending of things.
Try Reading... Urasawa’s Biggest Series By Harry Rabinowitz • March 2nd, 2021 Naoki Urasawa is kind of a big deal.
Try Reading... 50 Years Later, Superman Defeats the Klan Again By Harry Rabinowitz • February 10th, 2021 Superman punching Nazis, chucking Klansmen and standing up for diversity has never been this good.
Try Reading... A Year at a Comics Store By Harry Rabinowitz • December 28th, 2020 If you ever encounter a good bookseller, be nice to them. Okay? Okay.
Try Reading... Avatar Forever By Harry Rabinowitz • December 21st, 2020 Writer Gene Luen Yang understands exactly what made Avatar great, and continues the magic in comic book form.
Try Reading... Coven Edition By Harry Rabinowitz • November 13th, 2020 Witchy comic recommendations for our resident hexers.
Beasts & Behemoths and More! By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 28th, 2020 Jim Zub is back hanging out with us this week and he’s brought along a couple of comic books, an RPG supplement and a new Young Adventurer’s Guide!
Traces There’s No Youth Anymore By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 28th, 2020 Deadly Class, the thrill of lying to your parents and the fading of freedom.
Zot‘s Utopian Dream By Grace Benfell • September 14th, 2020 “This world is worth fighting for. It is not dead yet.”
Digital Fuckery: The Monetization of WebToons By Amanda Hudgins • September 2nd, 2020 These systems are designed to keep the reader in place, to keep them reading as long as possible and on the same sites, spending currency in the same place.
Try Reading... Descending Into Yourself By Harry Rabinowitz • September 2nd, 2020 Iasmin Omar Ata has published a hard and honest debut novel tackling epilepsy, isolation and illness
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
Try Reading... The Movement Marches On By Harry Rabinowitz • August 6th, 2020 Now and then, the privileged and the powerful imply that the “right way” to protest is not to protest at all. John Lewis stands against that.
Try Reading... The Power of Perspective By Harry Rabinowitz • July 7th, 2020 The Nameless City is a story about power, privilege and history’s bias. It’s also a story of two kids doing a bunch of parkour.
Try Reading... The Road to Dawn By Harry Rabinowitz • June 12th, 2020 On a road trip and in Tillie Walden’s Are You Listening?, the “frontiers” are less about physical locations and more about us.
Try Reading... Buck Destiny By Harry Rabinowitz • May 14th, 2020 In Norroway, is destiny something to fulfill or defy?
Superheroes and Poker: The Full Story By Alan Smithee • May 7th, 2020 The worlds of Marvel and DC Comics often draw from real life when constructing characters and themes.
Feature Excerpt Sticks and Stones Might Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me By Autumn Wright • May 4th, 2020 Marvel’s New Warriors series is an attempt to land the most expensive “how ya doing fellow kids” meme in the history of late capitalism.
Try Reading... New Kid on Earth By Harry Rabinowitz • April 9th, 2020 Space Boy Volume 1 proves that – even eons into the future – moving still sucks.
Try Reading... It’s Just a Game By Harry Rabinowitz • March 11th, 2020 DIE Volume 1 asks: if your game becomes real, can you still treat it like a game?
Try Reading... Middlewest and the Scars of Parental Abuse By Harry Rabinowitz • February 12th, 2020 When you peel back its fantasy veneer, Middlewest Book One is a story of parental abuse and the scars, both literal and figurative, it leaves.
Lo, the X-Men are Reborn By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2020 Jonathan Hickman has given the X-Men new life, but how long will it last?
On a Sunbeam’s Intimate Spaces By Harry Rabinowitz • December 4th, 2019 Cartoonist Tillie Walden is a master at depicting, and interweaving, intimacy and space.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
The Heavy Pour Nick Fury is Doing the Dishes By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2019 Vulnerability as strength is something Fury understands. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The Weird World of Neon Genesis Evangelion Spinoffs By Malindy Hetfeld • December 17th, 2018 Neon Genesis Evangelion stands out as a series that used spinoffs to open up some more opportunities to market something, anything to fans, while potentially hurting the source material in the process.
Transformers Lost Light Went Way Harder Than It Needed To By Kris Ligman • December 4th, 2018 The Transformers Lost Light comic book series is a beautiful thing we should cherish.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Influenced Persona 4 and I Have Proof By Kris Ligman • November 27th, 2018 It goes deeper than being two stories about a bunch of teenagers using magic to stop a serial killer.
Stan: A Man By Ian Gonzales • November 16th, 2018 A writer, an editor, a collaborator, an ambassador, a hero, a villain and everything in between.
The Heavy Pour New Gods By Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2018 New York Comic Con is a monument to hype with amusements deliberately designed to part fans from their money and/or time, but Sara would hate to miss the fantasy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 15th, 2018 Turtle Power! The guys discuss the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG from Palladium Books.
Backlog Culture is Not Canon By Gavin Craig • September 12th, 2018 Star Wars is a case study in how canon can grip a culture, and what happens when fandom turns toxic.
