Friday Recommendation

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Friday Recommendation: Not My Bag

By | Apr 19, 2013 | Columns

Earlier this week we got the sad news that “Li’l Depressed Boy” will be going on hiatus for a little while. To tide you over in the interim, what could be better than another Image Comic, a highly unusual one-shot from the series’ illustrator, Sina Grace? Centering on a stint working in high-end retail, “Not […]

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Friday Recommendation: Minimum Wage

By | Apr 12, 2013 | Columns

The whole “Saga” #12 ejaculate controversy got me thinking about the first time I ever saw such a thing in a comic book. I was trying to figure out why this particular panel of a decidedly adult comic book would cause such consternation among comic book fans, retailers, and the corporate entities involved. I started […]

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Friday Recommendation: The Comics Shelf

By | Mar 29, 2013 | Columns

Perhaps you just picked up your first graphic novel. Perhaps you have been reading superhero monthlies for nearly your entire life. Whatever the impetus, you’ve come to a conclusion: you love comic books. Not just the stories they tell or the characters that inhabit their pages, but the medium itself. Something about the medium of […]

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Friday Recommendation: Muse

By | Mar 22, 2013 | Columns

Humanoids is one of those publishers that, 9 times out of 10, just puts out gold. Publishing American versions of foreign comics, they’ve got great books your favorite artists did that you never knew about (like John Cassaday’s interior work for “I am Legion” with Fabien Nury) or any number of Moebius and Jodorowsky releases […]

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Friday Recommendation: Ojingogo

By | Mar 15, 2013 | Columns

So much of comic-reviewing has to do with looking at the text and the art, and watching the two compete and combine as they (hopefully) evoke a story that does justice to the flexibility of the medium. So it’s a bit perplexing to be faced with a book like Ojingogo – a comic without any […]

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Friday Recommendation: Marvel Boy

By | Mar 1, 2013 | Columns

Perhaps you recently picked up the first issue of the hip new “Young Avengers” from Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, and Mike Norton. Perhaps after reading it you asked yourself, “Hey, who was that charming space kid with the bizarre taste in music?” Well I’m here to tell you that kid is the creation of Grant […]

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