November 6, 2020 10:31 am Published by Sam A compelling police-centric crime thriller. It’s a simple mystery, turning heavily on psychology and interpersonal understanding, which is a nice... View Article
October 12, 2020 2:05 pm Published by Sam It’s exciting to see the excellent Machado working in comics. It’s also intimidating how good she is in just her... View Article
October 10, 2020 10:13 am Published by Sam A book apparently produced in conjunction with The Louvre. A tale of the power of dreams, a hapless father, romance,... View Article
October 8, 2020 12:55 pm Published by Sam A good book about the 1980s Lakers dynasty that suffers due to its reading proximity with the Bob Cousy book.... View Article
September 18, 2020 10:12 am Published by Sam Nominally a book about ‘50s Celtics leader Bob Cousy—and revelatory on that front, showing him as basketball’s first transformational star—but... View Article
September 16, 2020 10:17 am Published by Sam Multi-time Split Lip artist T.J. Kirsch turns his pen to writing (he provides some art, too) with this punchy biography... View Article
September 10, 2020 10:57 am Published by Sam Either Akira vol. 3 or Miracleman #15 contains the most viscerally affecting depiction of the destruction of a city. Miracelman... View Article
September 9, 2020 10:54 am Published by Sam When was the last time body horror in a comic actually made you physically uncomfortable? I can’t remember the last... View Article
September 7, 2020 9:53 am Published by Sam Superhero comics are, in almost all cases, children’s stories and they usually read like it. Every now and then, a... View Article
September 3, 2020 10:00 am Published by Sam I think I love everything about Pelecanos’ Derek Strange novels except the endings. Pelecanos’ characters are so deep, his settings... View Article