By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
April 23, 2020 — Not only is it “safer at home,” but it’s also an opportunity to do some recreational reading. Here are some of the more offbeat graphic novels that have recently crossed my desk:
The Runaw
I've saved the original thread, and I'll transfer the posts across as time permits. Painting of the Day (original series): Winter by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter of the 17th century who worked for most of his career in Rome. This is one of hi
Read more…Goddess Mode
Zoë Quinn, writer; Robbi Rodriguez, art; Rico Renzi, colors
DC Vertigo, 2019
The creative team is a big draw on this series. Writer Zoë Quinn is mainly known as a video game developer. She made the news after a blog post by her ex-boyfr
Read more…When I started watching old Doctor Who on DVD, Tracy (she who is my wife) at first wasn’t even interested in watching them, much less choosing them, but she eventually got drawn in and became as big a fan as I. Now, with only a handful of stories lef
Read more…American Carnage
Bryan Hill, writer; Leandro Fernández, artist; Dean White, colorist
DC Vertigo, 2019
An especially timely story, American Carnage is a nine-issue miniseries about alt-right politics. Businessman/philanthropist Wynn Morgan is at the ce
Read more…We've been reimiss about commenting the Arrowverse shows this season, save for the Crisis On Infinite Earths -- so much so that I couldn't find a thread about The Flash for this season. So I started one. (If there is one, someone please point me to i
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
April 16, 2020 — Roughly every 20 years, Zombie Chicken Little rises from his grave and predicts the end of the comic book industry. The last time was in the late ‘90s, sooo … yep, here he comes, shambling a
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
April 9, 2020 — The pandemic burning through the world right now is terrifying, lethal and virtually unstoppable. But one thing it isn’t, is unexpected. We’ve been through this before — the 1918 flu, the B
Read more…If you knew nothing about the Silver Age of Comics except for what you read in my Deck Log, you'd still be aware of the big change in Batman that Julius Schwartz wrought when he became editor of the Bat-titles in 1964. I've talked about it often eno
Black Hammer '45
Jeff Lemire & Ray Fawkes, story; Ray Fawkes, script; Matt Kindt, artist; Sharlene Kindt, colorist; Marie Enger, letterer
Dark Horse Books, 2019
Yet another cool corner of the Black Hammer universe: the World War II era Black Hammer Sq
Read more…Deathbed
Joshua Williamson, writer; Riley Rossmo, artist; Ivan Plascencia, colorist
Vertigo Comics, 2018
Vertigo miniseries tend to have a fairly deliberate pacing, and employ various blends of fantasy, horror and realism. This one is completely off t
Read more…Given the choice, would you rather have the Bstmobile (60s version) or the Mach 5?
Read more…There's a series of these out there - this one is a collection of the most "important" Borg episodes of the various Star Trek series. I thought I'd take a look at them and report on what I find. I always liked the Borg as enemies, similar as they ar
Read more…“Time is collapsing. Incidents of chaos and devastation are appearing throughout the lives of one Time Lord and his many friends – all fallout from one terrible disaster. From Earth’s past and present to timeless alien worlds, from the cloisters of G
Read more…The Legion of "Hey, It's That Guy!" Character Actors loses Danny Goldman. He had a long career in the Legion in various TV shows and movies, probably most memorably in the opening scene of Young Frankenstein:
As a voice actor, he did stuff for Flim
Read more…They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott, writers; Harmony Becker, artist
Top Shelf Productions, 2019
Actor/activist George Takei has been speaking in public about his Japanese American family's experience in internment camps
Read more…Snow, Glass, Apples
Neil Gaiman, stories & words; Colleen Doran, adaptation & art
Dark Horse Books, 2019
Dark Horse has published a number of graphic adaptations of Neil Gaiman's short stories, featuring artists like John Bolton, P. Craig Russell, M
Read more…The Weatherman Vol. 2
Jody LeHeup, writer; Nathan Fox, artist; Moreno Dinisio, colorist
Image Comics, 2020
The first volume featured Martian weatherman Nathan Bright's life being turned upside-down. He had been a wise-cracking, devil-may-care guy: now
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