Author Archives: Brandon Soderberg
Conan the Barbarian #1-3
Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s approach to the Conan legacy is conservative, perhaps even reverential, but quietly subversive, as well Continue reading
My Friend Dahmer
With all the Dahmer data he could find, and a head full of memories he can’t shake, cartoonist Derf tries to connect with the young serial killer in-the-making. Continue reading
The Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1
The first volume of David Hine and Shaky Kane’s The Bulletproof Coffin told a story–about an everyman subsumed by funny books, about pre-code comics, about “big two” quasi-monopolization, about creators’ rights–but the six-issue series’ appeal was primarily, aesthetic. Hine’s writing, … Continue reading
Streakers
A Seth and Chester Brown-approved comic about three guys for whom the mid-70s trend of getting naked and disrupting some sort of public event, thereby freaking out the squares, is a life-consuming hobby. Continue reading
