With a resume that includes works like “Summer Blonde,” “Shortcomings,” and “Killing & Dying,” Adrian Tomine stands as one of the comics industry’s most respected cartoonists.  It’s not nothing, but “most respected” doesn’t translate into personal wealth, fame, or actual respect.  This is something that “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist” makes abundantly clear with […]

In an America where laws are literally fought for on stumps in public, Senator Jack Hammer was someone with his best days behind him.  Until he beat the crap out of Senator Sweet Smell over a bill to deregulate genetic engineering.  Not only is he now more popular with the general public, he’s got the […]

It took three years, and a Netflix movie, but we finally got a second volume of “The Old Guard.”  I really enjoyed the first volume and the self-contained story it told made it so that the wait for this volume wasn’t as taxing as it could’ve been.  Still, it was advertised as “vol. 1” so […]

Bendis wrote two teenage versions of Spider-Man very well for a very long time over at Marvel.  So when he pitched DC on writing two of its preeminent superteams that happen to be made up of teenagers, the company apparently went “Okay, sure.” and let him have at it.  Naturally I picked up the first […]

The fight against the Jinoo rages on for the Sangeryes family in this volume.  It picks up with the “Red Summer Special” to fill in some backstory regarding its cast, with the bits regarding youngest son Cullen being the most relevant to the main story.  We saw him dragged off to the realm of the […]

“Hellblazer” may not have been the best or buzziest title to have served under the Vertigo banner, but it was consistently good for a lot longer than you’d expect from a Mature Readers title that started in the late 80’s and ran for 300 issues.  That’s just one reason I liked it.  There were plenty […]

War has come to the known world as the Federation marches against the Arcanic Kingdom.  The Federation’s first target is the Walled City of Ravenna, whose battlements have kept out invaders for a thousand years.  It’s a record that looks to see its end if the attacking army’s new weapons are as powerful as they’re […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Two Moons #1 Apparently the premise of, “Warrior of the gods resurrected as a scarecrow to fight his enemies in the present day alongside his white trash friends” wasn’t uncommercial enough for writer John Arcudi.  Now he’s back, and teamed up with artist Valerio Giangiordano for a young Pawnee man fighting for the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dark Nights:  Death Metal HC I’m not giving this collection of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s latest (and most likely, last) DC event this spot based on my expectations for it.  No, I’m one of those guys who thought that “Metal” was just alright and not one of the best DC events.  The […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Autobiographix HC This is a full-size hardcover reissue of an anthology that Dark Horse published seventeen years ago.  We all know that the people at Dark Horse are fans of short stories, and they’ve published a lot of anthology collections over the years.  What makes this one stand out?  For one, the hit-to-miss […]