Comic Books

You didn’t think the pile was over already, did you? That first run that I wrote about last week was only the tip of an old iceberg that’s been sitting on my shelf collecting dust between house moves. Since we have nearly four years worth of stories to catch up on, we may as well keep going… Continue reading

Since the onset of Covid and how that affected my comic buying habits over the past few years—my home shop began shipping out pull lists early in the pandemic and never really stopped—my to be read pile had become uncharacteristically large. Here in 2024, when I pulled an issue from October 2020, I knew I… Continue reading

The DC Universe has a lot of teams and a lot of team books. The amount of Justice Leagues, series, spin-offs, and event series is enough to fill most small libraries on their own. Over the decades, more teams would be added to the universe before the majority of them would slip into obscurity. But… Continue reading

I’ve espoused the merits of giant robots for years now and I doubt I’ll ever stop. There’s just something about people coming together to create a titanic effigy of steel that is ripe for creating myriad stories. This is the main reason that when a new comic series releases with some connection to giant robots,… Continue reading

Comics have a particular strength when it comes to poetry. The quickness of the panels being able to render different interpretations of a single line of poetry adds a new kind of depth to the poetic process. These panels themselves end up becoming another aspect of the poem—a line break becomes more of a gulf… Continue reading

There’s an awe that comes with stepping into a great house. The history of the location is emblazoned on the walls and drips from the century-old chandeliers—as many of them are now museums, we even get to learn a bit about who made those walls and chandeliers. But that history leaves us at arm’s length… Continue reading

I Kill Giants is on the short list of comics that have made me cry. That balance between the absurd and the concrete from Joe Kelly’s characters and Ken Niimura’s art helped to create this sense of reality that felt heightened throughout the series’ run. The exaggerations are what made it more grounded and, as a… Continue reading