There are a lot of reasons to be a Benji Nate fan. Her bright, candy-colored art and eye for fashion give her work a unique and appealing look that perfectly suits her beloved bimbo characters. Nate’s comics are often laugh-out-loud funny, walking the line between absurd and cuttingly relatable. Bunny, the protagonist of Girl Juice,…
Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic 2 Cinema Exclusive
As the world finds its new normal, the joys of an opening night movie and one-shot promotional comics start to return. As a part of opening night for Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic 2, a cinema exclusive comic was handed out to the audience in my hometown theatre. Partly functioning as promotional material and partly acting…
REVIEW: Flung Out of Space Paints a Complex and Brilliant Portrait of Patricia Highsmith
I don’t have the right words to prepare you for this comic. At its simplest, Flung Out of Space is about Patricia Highsmith’s quest to escape the drudgery of writing comics and get her novels published, including Carol, considered the first lesbian romance with a happy ending. It’s also about her years-long attempt to try…
REVIEW: Silk #1 Looks Towards The Future
Although not the most well-known of Marvel’s Spider-Heroes, Cindy Moon, aka Silk, has gained a fanbase thanks to a handful of solo series, the New Agents of Atlas, as well as Spider-Hero related books. It also helps that Cindy Moon’s journey as a superhero has been a fun and relatable story of trauma recovery and…
REVIEW: Everything’s Coming Up Resurrection in Trial of Magneto #5
Scarlet Witch’s redemption arc! Magneto’s broody guilt! Millions of souls who died before mutantkind learned how to save work in progress! It’s all resolved as this miniseries wraps up.
REVIEW: Star Wars: Life Day #1 Isn’t Quite a Life Day Miracle
In Star Wars: Life Day #1, Han Solo finds himself in a sticky situation while the galaxy celebrates the Wookie tradition of Life Day. How will Han and his trusty co-pilot Chewbacca find their way out of this latest escapade?
REVIEW: Squad Explores Cathartic Violence Gone Too Far
A quote from Megan Abbot’s Dare Me made the rounds on Tumblr a few years ago: “There’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.” Maybe Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle had that quote in mind as they penned Squad, an original young adult graphic novel following Becca as she finds cruelty and violence where…
REVIEW: The Trial of Magneto #1 Stands Tall
Who killed the Scarlet Witch at the Hellfire Gala? X-Factor investigates: was it… Magneto? Will he turn against the entire Krakoan experiment? And will his other super-heroic children, Polaris and Quicksilver, try to bring him down?
REVIEW: Fantastic Four Life Story #2 and Miss Representation
Marvel’s Life Story books re-contextualize Marvel’s most well-known characters as evolving and aging in “real-time” throughout their history. And for the Fantastic Four, this comes as a celebration of their 60th anniversary. A look back at their story throughout the decades seems like an excellent way to celebrate this milestone, but the memory of the…
REVIEW: Silk #4 Is All About Saya Ishii’s Past and Present
Until now, not much has been known about the current Silk antagonist Saya Ishii. She is Japanese, the current CEO of the tech-based company Fujinet, and she has a brother named Max, who happens to be Cindy Moon’s current therapist. Now, with the reveal that her father is the classic Spider-Man villain Silvermane, Silk#4 finally…
Stay Warm with the Sun and Sand Comic Anthology
After a streak of below zero temperatures in Chicago in the midst of the pandemic, I’m feeling the need for some escapism. Fortunately, I’ve got a little bit of warm, pandemic-free Florida weather sitting on my coffee table, in the form of the Sun and Sand Comic Anthology. Sun and Sand was originally set to…
REVIEW: Demon Days: X-Men #1 Gives Us Samurai X-Men and Monstrous Marvels
Demon Days: X-Men #1 is a tale for the ages. In ancient Japan, the Oni are fighting back against humans for expanding into their territories and taking away the Oni’s food sources. Can humans and Oni, who once coexisted peacefully, find balance again?