The Ideal Copy
All in all, fans looking for more of the trademarked Plus-Man-and-Hank antics we saw in the first two books in the series might find The Ideal Copy slightly lacking, but it’s a nice effort on Sears’ part to flesh out his human characters further and begin the hint at a events further down the line in the series. Continue reading
Monkey Chef, Volumes 1 2
The hook for Mike Freiheit’s minicomics series Monkey Chef is a strong one: it’s an account of time spent in South Africa, preparing food for monkeys at a sanctuary, as well as cooking food for the humans who worked there. … Continue reading
Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters
As Tom Kaczynski points out on its back cover, Alex Degen’s newest book Soft X-Ray/Mindhunters shares common ground with Henry Darger. For example, by using quite lengthy chapter titles in combination with information on locations and occasionally featuring an idiosyncratic … Continue reading
Love & Rockets #5
I Some people learn from their mistakes, but they aren’t usually very interesting people. Having been away from comics for well over a year doesn’t just mean abstaining from crap. I hadn’t seen an issue of the new volume of … Continue reading
The Winner
“It’s funny how people ask me if the stories in my comics ‘really happened’” writes Karl Stevens in his latest graphic narrative, The Winner. The back of Steven’s book jacket will tell you “Karl Stevens uses the graphic novel to … Continue reading
Sabrina
No matter what book I flip in front of my face these days, it’s ultimately veiled by each outrageous, sometimes hourly update. I can’t help it. For a while now, I’ve only been able to read books in the shadow … Continue reading
XTC69
Jessica Campbell returns with this wry feminist sci-fi spoof involving a trio of women from another planet searching for men with whom to mate in order to propagate their species. Continue reading
The New Mutants: Demon Bear
The ‘80s were a strange time over at the House of Ideas. At the time the first stories excerpted in this thin volume were originally released, Marvel’s mutant mania stage was just starting to settle in; the X-Men were so … Continue reading
