In Earth One: Wonder Woman Vol. 2, the Amazon princess goes up against a supervillain pick-up artist.
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Brian Michael Bendis’ tale of revolution now! seems prescient, even if it’s set in… Portland?
Plain Sight collects six issues of the current Supergirl comic, with exquisite variant covers by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau.
After gobbling up year-end of lists, I made up my own…
Batman Knightfall and more—reviews of new Dark Knight stuff After reading four recently published collections, this writer is ready for Bat-detox. But I did discover…
Imagine Wanting Only This is a beautiful, poetic rumination on loss
“Gnosticism, Michael Moorcock, time travel, Terence McKenna’s novelty theory, sex magick, psychedelia, conspiracy culture, comics-as-pop, a lot of punching, the Moonchild, time-as-a-flat-circle and oh-so-much more.” – Rolling Stone
And some things I liked about Wonder Woman ’77
Still crazy after all these years
Zatanna, whose first appearance was in a 1964 issue of Hawkman, comes into her own in Paul Dini’s antic, mischievous take on the character.
Graphic novel review—Polina by Bastien Vivès Polina is the second graphic novel from French cartoonist Bastien Vivès In January, Jonathan Cape issued a translation of…
Interview—Chris Ware on ‘Building Stories’ Once in awhile, a graphic novel or other comics-related product appears that can’t be ignored. Maus was one, Ghost World…
Have I got a graphic novel for you!
A new graphic adaptation of a classic science fiction author’s short story gets a thumb’s up.
Graphic novel review—Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City by Guy Delisle The original French version of Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem (out now on Drawn and Quarterly, hardcover,…
Volume Two of Dark Horse’s Manara Library features some typically lewd nude females, but also historical tales of surprising depth.
Graphic novel review—Unterzakhn by Leela Corman One of the great jokes in, or on, American pop culture is the infiltration of Yiddish idioms into American culture.…
This New York Review Books edition, published last year and translated from the Italian by Marina Harss, is a beauty, and a must-see for aficionados of graphic novels and comics.