My wheelhouse is in fiction, especially comics. I enjoy genre fiction, and tend to lean towards horror, weird and science fiction. I enjoy reading about food, socialism, music, religions, and computing.
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Kitaro the Vampire Slayer is the fifth volume in Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre stories about a …
It's been a while since I picked one of these up. Mizuki's blend of realistic backgrounds and cartoon figures is awesome.
"I am going to sink it." "You are not!" "I am," he coldly replied. "Do …
When this book is at its best it's full of wonder and adventure and at its worst I'm reading endless taxonomies of fish.
This is in the running for one of the best comics I've ever read. It's so sweet and tender and horrifying
Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old …
My annual foray into Taniguchi. What a master.
In a sequel to their spellbinding, experimental graphic biography of Che Guevara, Hector Germán Oesterheld …
Not the ending to the Breccia Library I was hoping for but I'm so grateful we got what we did.
From world-saving TTC controllers to secrets hiding between the shelves at Honest Ed’s, from giant …
I'm glad this exists though unsurprisingly the results vary from story to story.
Snapshots. They let us capture moments of truth, fragments of time -- and that's as …
Really excellent. Great companion to Top 10.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters …
Every bit the masterpiece people make it out to be.
A hot time in New Orleans was the last thing she wanted. On leave from …
You're Jim Lee, and you've got money to burn. You manage to throw though cash Uncle Al's way to get him to work on a cheese cake title and he does the best he can with what he's given.
Trying to inject actual Hatian voodoo into the character was a noble idea that mostly lands flat in execution but I appreciate the effort.
There's nothing worth mentioning about the Michael Lopez's art, but at least Adam Hughes turned in some good Mucha inspired covers.
A complete collection of the black and white publications of Scot McCloud's Comic Series Zot! …
Extremely sentimental. It very much feels like the work of a young artist.
Tanabe understood the assignment. The results are perfect.
In the second installment of this Eisner Award-winning series the super-science police officers of Precinct …
I really love this setting and I hope someone picks it up again one day in the future.
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty, Adrian Tomine self-published a series of "mini-comics": small, …
Really cool seeing how rapidly he improves his craft over seven mini comics.
He has seen tomorrow... and he hates it!
In this stunning sequence to the acclaimed …
This was a random pickup and probably some of my favorite art in any Batman comic ever. Eduardo Barreto is an absolute master, I'd love to track down his Latin American comics
He has seen tomorrow... and he hates it!
In this stunning sequence to the acclaimed …
I've never heard of the artist but he's banging out excellent pages.