Cover Volume 1
Brian Michael Bendis, writer; David Mack, artist
Dark Horse Books, 2022
Collecting a DC Comics series from 2018-19 (and inspired by David Mack's work for the U.S. State Department as a cultural ambassador), Cover posits the recruitment
Read more…Stillwater Vol. 3: Border Crossing
Chip Zdarsky, creator/writer; Ramón K Pérez, creator/artist; Mike Spicer, colorist
Image Comics, 2023
The Stillwater saga concludes here. It opens with Daniel somehow surviving the pyre outside of town which was inte
Read more…Basilisk Vol. 2
Cullen Bunn, writer; Jonas Scharf, illustrator; Alex Guimarães, colorist
BOOM! Studios, 2022
The second arc begins with Hannah and Regan pursuing the remaining Chimera. Regan is opposed to it, but then she begins to hear voices: she h
Read more…What's the Furthest Place from Here? Vol. 1: Getting Lost at the End of the World
Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg, storytellers; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2022
This is a dystopian tale, although it's not obvious at first. We just
Read more…Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe, author, illustrator
Oni Press, 2019
This was the most challenged book in the United States in 2021 at libraries and school systems, a target of the culture wars on the basis of its subject alone. Kobabe was born fe
Read more…Public Domain Volume One: Past Mistakes
Chip Zdarsky, writer & artist
Image Comics, 2023
Classic comic book artist Syd Dallas is responsible for creating pop culture's greatest hero: the Domain. His glory days are behind him, and now he is invited to
Read more…The Department of Truth Vol. 3: Free Country
James Tynion IV, writer; Martin Simmonds, artist; Aditya Bidikar, letterer; Elsa Charretier, Tyler Boss,John J. Pearson, David Romero, Alison Sampson, Jorge Fornes: artists; Matt Hollingsworth, Boman Tito
Above Snakes Vol. 1
Sean Lewis, writer; Hayden Sherman, artist; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2023
Above Snakes is a supernatural Western, a rare genre indeed. The most recent example is writer Cullen Bunn and artist Brian Hurtt's The
Read more…Dark Ride Volume 1: Hell Ticket
Joshua Williamson, writer; Andrei Bressan, artist; Adriano Lucas, colorist
Image Comics, 2023
The story begins in black and white. Arthur has just lost his job, and kills his wife in a rage. When he buries her in the d
Read more…The Night Eaters Vol. 1: She Eats the Night
Marjorie Liu, writer; Sana Takeda, illustrator
Abrams ComicArts, 2022
The first of a trilogy of graphic novels by the creative team behind the Monstress series, The Night Eaters is about Chinese American tw
Read more…May 18
COUNT CROWLEY, AMATEUR MONSTER HUNTER #2
Story: David Dastmalchian | Art/Cover: Lukas Ketner | Dark Horse | $3.99
Dark Horse not only offered this issue for review, but the previous issue and the previous miniseries! So I’m no fool; I read the
Read more…Joe Hill's Rain
Joe Hill, story; David M. Booher, adaptation; Zoe Thorogood, art; Chris O'Halloran, colors
Image Comics, 2022
This five-issue miniseries was adapted from a novella of the same name in the prose collection Strange Weather (2017). Hill
Read more…Bionic
Koren Shadmi
Top Shelf Productions, 2020
Bionic opens with a moody, wordless sequence of a bleak futuristic robotics plant. Then it shifts to a scene of geeky teenager Victor getting ready for his first day of the new year at high school. Desp
Read more…Stray Dogs: Dog Days
Tony Fleecs, writer; Trish Forstner, artist; Brad Simpson, colorist; Tone Rodriguez, layouts
Image Comics, 2022
The original series was about a group of stray dogs living together in the home of the serial killer who murdered the
Read more…The Department of Truth Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
James Tynion IV, writer; Martin Simmonds, artist; Aditya Bidikar, letterer
Image Comics, 2022
As the subtitle indicates, this arc revolves around the decades-long secret war the Department of Truth
Read more…Chivalry
Neil Gaiman, story and words; Colleen Doran, adaptation, art, and illuminated manuscript lettering
Dark Horse Books, 2022
Dark Horse has been publishing beautiful interpretations of Neil Gaiman short stories for many years now, adapted by a
Read more…Wynd Book 2: The Secret of the Wings
James Tynion IV, writer; Michael Dialynas, illustrator
Boom!Box, 2020
Wynd, Oakley, Thorn, and Yorik continue their dangerous quest across Esseriel in this collection. They know they are on the run, but they lack
Read more…Outer Darkness Vol. 1: Each Other's Throats
John Layman, writer; Afu Chan, artist
Image Comics-Skybound, 2019
This is a strange tale set in an interstellar future, but one where science meets horror and magic. It is not exactly unique--G. Willow Wils
Read more…Little Monsters Vol. 1
Jeff Lemire, writer; Dustin Nguyen, artist
Image Comics, 2022
After the dystopian science fiction (with magic) of Descender and Ascender, co-creators Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen return with a different flavor of the same genr
Read more…It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth
Zoe Thorogood, writer & illustrator
Image Comics, 2022
British cartoonist Zoe Thorogood subtitled this memoir of six months of her life "An auto-bio-graphic-novel." Despite the success of her graphic novel The
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