Honey #1
A gedankenexperiment about an all-woman society — imagining it, putting it through its genre-story paces, examining female friendship, romantic relationships, and enmity in the fresh air created by the near-total absence of men. Continue reading
Twelve Gems
Lane Milburn’s Twelve Gems is a self-conscious space opera full of cross-hatched alien landscapes and over-the-top gags. Continue reading
Doctors
In Dash Shaw’s latest graphic novel, we are given a glimpse into a pretty unusual medical practice.
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Safari Honeymoon
In this latest graphic novel by the author of By This Shall You Know Him, a husband and wife follow their Safari Guide into a surreal jungle, where many dangers await. Continue reading
The Mutts Diaries
Even though Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts comic strip is sublimely designed to work on multiple levels, it comes perilously close to losing its charms in the dumb, exploitative packaging employed in The Mutts Diaries, a collection that Andrews McMeel Publishing has created to launch its amp! comics for kids imprint. Continue reading
Mis(h)adra
Iasmin Omar Ata’s comic Mis(h)adra is a story about the daily life and struggles of Isaac, a college student who’s just trying to get through parties, midterms, and his struggles with epilepsy. Continue reading
Sex Fantasy
Sex gives us an experience with utility — explored at length in the first two issues before being undermined in the third and smashed to pieces in the fourth — worth fantasizing about in the context of the rest of our existence. Continue reading
The Bad-ventures of Bobo Backslack
The story as it stands presents for Bobo a series of hoops, forcing a character literally allergic to the world through situations where all odds seem to be against him. Continue reading
