I think this is still the most recent Black Hammer collection; it came out last November. It’s set in the modern day, and does not feature the series main characters – the group of five Bronze Age heroes stuck on an extradimensional farm, like that dog you had as a child that had to go away,…
Comics do at least half of their storytelling through images – but sometimes I wonder if some creators think their images can communicate deep, complex concepts that are clear and crisp in their own minds, even when they don’t embody those ideas in words. Max Huffman’s graphic novel Dogtangle brings up those thoughts: it’s obviously…
Osamu Tezuka made a lot of comics. According to Wikipedia , over 700 works, comprising more than 150,000 pages. I doubt even half of that has been translated into English. So the view any North American reader has of his work – unless that reader both is fluent in Japanese and has access to a library-worth…
An unnamed man walks into a neighborhood diner and asks for volunteers to help him save the world. But, it can’t be just anyone; it has to be a specific combination of people at that moment, 10:10 p.m. Once assembled, they need to go a few blocks over to insist that a nine-year-old boy install…
LOS ANGELES, CA (March 24, 2026) — An Orphan. A Utopia. A Conspiracy. This is The Marsh Fellows, the captivating graphic novel debut from beloved online cartoonist Anna-Laura Sullivan, arriving May 19 via Top Shelf Productions! After a nuclear war plunged the world into darkness, the last beacon of hope is the island utopia called Slumber…
If I were cynical – and I am, a lot of the time – I’d think of this book as “We 3, but with a happy ending!” or maybe, more vaguely, “We 3 in SPAAAACE!” That might be reductive, but, really, how many other comics about three uplifted and cyborged animals fighting to save their humans can…
I came into this book with almost no expectations, and was happily surprised – it’s a taut, smartly-paced crime thriller in a lived-in SF universe. I’ll try not to spoil what turns into a twisty plot with a lot of revelations, but keep that in mind. Bridge Planet Nine is Jared Throne’s second full-length graphic…
Comics are about sex less often than most artforms. Call it a lingering prudishness, the hangover from long decades seen as a medium just for kids, or just the fact that drawn sex is inherently a bit more fleshy than the written kind. But it’s true: comics avoid sex a lot of the time, and…
I read The Incal at least thirty years ago, during the burst of Mœbius republications from Marvel. As I recall, I thought it was OK space opera, with an annoying main character and more mystical mumbo-jumbo than I preferred. (At the time, I was much more enthusiastic about the Blueberry stories, a long Western series drawn by…
Phenomena Book Three: The SecretBy Brian Michael Bendis and André Lima AraújoAbrams ComicArts/144 pages/$25.99 I have to hand it to Brian Michael Bendis. The writer is far from a one-trick pony, and no two series have the same feeling. Here, partnered again with André Lima Araújo, he has come up with a light family-oriented science…
Frank Herbert didn’t necessarily intend to create a large, enduring legacy like Dune became. But once the novel finally arrived in the mid-1960s, it was immediately embraced and spawned several sequels until Herbert’s death. His son Brian, in concert with Kevin J. Anderson, has been keeping the flames burning bright with a series of prequels…
This is not a sequel to Hedra . There’s no way it could be set in the same universe. But they’re from the same creator, from the same year, in the same genre, with a similar feel and with SFnal technology that works roughly the same way. So maybe it’s a companion piece, or another…
