In Ben Passmore’s one-shot comic Sports is Hell, a Super Bowl celebration becomes a pretext for a riot in this biting satire. Follow Ash as she and a ragtag group seek safety from the ensuing chaos and violence.
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 5: Lost in Translation
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
INTERVIEW: Adam P. Knave Breathes Deep with The Airless Year
Middle school is hard. In The Airless Year, we meet Kacee, a young Black queer girl who is struggling to find her path as a teenager. Her grades are failing and her parents are constantly on her case about doing better. Her crush doesn’t know she’s her crush, and her two best friends are their…
INTERVIEW: Alek Shrader and the The Arizona Opera Bring Carmen to a New Stage
Carmen is an auspicious name. Not just because it’s my mother’s name, but because it’s the title of one of the greatest operas of all time. Filled with drama and passion, it is the story of the downfall of Don José. He is a naïve young soldier in the 1830s who abandons his childhood sweetheart…
Previously on Comics: #VisibleWomen Returns
Good morning friends, and welcome to the last week of March. Today, #VisibleWomen returns for its twelfth Twitter event. Conceived by writer Kelly-Sue Deconnick, #VisibleWomen provides a free and relatively accessible opportunity to raise the profiles of women within the comic book industry via the use of a fun little hashtag. Submissions to the hashtag…
Controlling Fascism with Surrealism on Tradd Moore’s Variant Cover for The Department of Truth #4
Conspiracy theories, secret histories, and supernatural activity are themes at the center of The Department of Truth, written by horror-thriller mastermind James Tynion IV with its premiere art by Martin Simmonds. Several of its most collectible issues are variant covers, where artists take liberties with the general ideas within the popular comic. Tradd Moore has…
DC PUBWATCH: March 2022
For the first time in years, the Batman and Superman team-up book is titled World’s Finest, and issue #1 lives up to the claim.
REVIEW: Connections and Expectations in Ima Koi: Now I’m In Love
Shojo manga reigns supreme in my heart, always. Reading about young people figuring out how to navigate school, their developing relationships with others, and what it means to be a young adult in whatever day and age they are living with is always worth reading for me. The first volume of Ima Koi: Now I’m…
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 4: E. T. A. Hoffman’s Tale of Aurelia
Continuing a series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: February/March 2022
Hello Titan PUBWATCH readers! Beginning with this column, the Titan PUBWATCH will move to an every-other-month schedule so that we can ensure that we have a robust amount of news and reviews for you from one of the top comics and book publishers across the pond! So you can look for Titan PUBWATCHes at WWAC…
REVIEW: Let’s Get Burgers is a Cute Perspective on the Harshness of Reality
Best friends Knife and Cheddar just want to enjoy the simple life, eat some burgers, and get a good night’s rest. But capitalism, nightmare bosses, and transphobia conspire against them. Can the friends prevail against all odds?
REVIEW: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic Gives an Old Genre the Kiss of Life
Mexico, 1950. A young woman named Noemí Taboada receives word that her cousin Catalina Doyle has been acting strangely. Amongst other things, Catalina has been experiencing visions and is convinced that her husband Virgil is plotting to murder her. Noemí’s father suspects that this is merely a ploy for attention, but he is sufficiently concerned…