What makes Orcs in Space, Vol. 1 special is that it uses short-hand of the genres we love to intrigue us, it disarms us with jokey-jokes, and then sucker-punches us in the feels with a story about empathy as a means of personal growth.
Read MoreThe title of the graphic novel, Delicates, plays a dual role…The sheets and the laundromat are the clear connection, but with the ongoing theme of people and how fragile they can be, even if we don’t see it, is also there…
Read MoreJonna and the Unpossible Monsters by Chris and Laura Samnee is an exhilarating start to what I am anticipating to be a thrilling and exuberant ode to siblinghood.
Read MoreRogue Planet, which is due out in collected trade March 10, is a tune we've heard before, but it's one I have always enjoyed and It is made even better by its powerhouse art team.
Read MoreWith Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters #1, Chris Samnee, Laura Samnee, and Matthew Wilson deliver modern comics a Kamandi-esque story with a vibrant YA bend in place of dystopian super-heroics.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Titan, a popular French-Canadian graphic novel by Quebeçois creator François Vigneault, is getting a U.S. release next month from Oni Press. The original book was first published in 2017, following five years of work on the project by Vigneault. With that in mind, it’s striking how timely the themes and ideas in the story feel today, especially as applied to the current tumultuous moment happening (seemingly in slow-motion) within the U.S.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — The Vain #1 is first and foremost a relentlessly stylish comic, drawing on a timeless sense of glamour that lends an over-arching sophistication to this story about vampires, heists, and going to war. Indeed, there is a whiff of the television show Mad Men to this comic, not in the subject matter but in the approach it takes to the styles and values of the times: the characters in this book are not old-fashioned (not even the immortal ones) and neither is there culture. No, they dress as they do and act in a certain way because they are, in fact, quite vain (hey, that’s the title!).
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