Any Empire
Nate Powell’s second graphic novel is about youth and war and violence, played out in a small town somewhere in the American South. Continue reading
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969
This is one of two comics to come out this year whose climactic oomph relies on an image of (let’s be up front about this) John Constantine. Continue reading
Little Nothings, Vol. 4: My Shadow In The Distance
Originally drawn in 2009, the fourth translated volume of Lewis Trondheim’s Little Nothings diary strip now pushes the series up near the 500-page mark. It’s simultaneously Trondheim’s most disposable work and some of his best. Entirely free of genre and … Continue reading
Liar’s Kiss
The story of Liar’s Kiss is formulaic and ultimately forgettable, but it shows the strengths as well as the weaknesses of its genre. Continue reading
Americus
MK Reed’s forte has always been her dialogue, and this is a crucial part of the success of her mainstream-publisher debut Americus. It helps that in Jonathan Hill, she has an artistic collaborator whose sensibilities—in terms of body language, nuance, and … Continue reading
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969
Is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen past its sell-by date? Is the latest chapter as oppressive as the last? Where have all the flowers gone? Continue reading
Fantastic Life
The story of a drunken art-school malcontent stumbling his way through awful parties, lousy punk shows, mortifying painting-class critiques, and portentous encounters with the woman of his (wet) dreams. Continue reading
Zegas #1
Like Pope and Graham before him, Fiffe warps the influences of the medium’s ‘80s sci-fi masters into an original construction, one infused with enough of an individual voice to make it feel new and exciting. Continue reading
