Author Archives: Sean T. Collins

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Difficult Loves

Unapologetically sad and angry and strong. Continue reading

 
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Baby’s in Black

If you came to Baby’s in Black, writer-artist Arne Bellstorf’s take on the young Beatles’ bohemian demimonde in early-‘60s Hamburg, expecting a darkly glamorous romantic tragedy amid the gathering clouds of a pop-culture hurricane—well, I can’t say I’d blame you. … Continue reading

 
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Night Business #4

In Marra’s blood-soaked hands — and this is his best handiwork to date — you can have your cake and eat it too. Continue reading

 
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Cyclical/Stale N Mate/Let’s Fucking Party/Cheek Up’s

It’s difficult to believe in the existence of minicomics from the co-star of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull even when you’re holding them in your hands. Continue reading

 
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A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One

This adaptation of the zeitgeist-bestriding revisionist-epic fantasy novel uses details from the source material in great heaps on every page, but none of it coheres. Continue reading

 
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Esperanza

The latest L&R digest finds Maggie, Hopey, Izzy, and Ray D. coming to terms with no longer being the life of the party and the heart of their scene — at least not without exhausting effort. Continue reading

 
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q v i e t

q v i e t takes sex and twists it, stretches it, and turns it inside out. Continue reading

 
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SuperMutant Magic Academy

Certainly the best take on YA comics I’ve read in ages. Continue reading