I loved When I Was A Mall Model. I’m not even going to pretend otherwise. Back in the way back days of the American 1970’s every middle school girl thought she was going to be a model. (Well, except me. I was absolutely certain I wasn’t, which made me one… Read more »
I picked up issue one of Karl Bollers and Rick Leonardi’s Watson And Holmes at Comixology. Karl Bollers was new to me. I’d try another book by him but I don’t think I’ll be back for more of Watson And Holmes. There was a lot I liked about the issue. Watson is… Read more »
In America it’s the 4th of July, which means a fair amount of our readership is out baking in the sun and knocking back bad beer. It seems like as good a time as any to drop an unpopular review. The Shadow Hero is reclaiming an obscure Golden Age hero… Read more »
Beautiful Darkness is a French comic book. (Wait, come back.) I implore you to read it. I understand if graphic novels don’t work for you, I absolutely do. This isn’t a manga or something you have to read in a specialized manner, It’s a straightforward American-style comic book. Give it… Read more »
Ok, fine, this is a graphic novel and (probably) not even a romance but my curiosity for how Charlaine Harris would translate into this new medium was strong. After all, from the necrophilia and furry-fetish loving of Sookie Stackhouse to the quasi incest is best life of Harper Connelly, Harris… Read more »
Someday I’ll learn to stop looking at The Best American Comics series. As someone who loves comics but has exhausted her patience for violence against women as shorthand for meaningful commentary the series often exhausts me. Beginning with an excerpt from what I would argue was Alison Bechdel’s weakest book and ending with pinups… Read more »
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