Jun 08, 2017 By Jeremy Nisen

On one level, Phonogram is a comic for the fussiest of music fans, layered with opinions about what this kind of music means, how much that band sucks or is amazing, etc. The kinds of arguments you might hear in record shops in days gone by, back when those were a thing. More

Aug 26, 2016 By Zach Hollwedel

It seems Jeff Lemire can do no wrong. The prolific comic book author and artist—whose Descender was Under the Radar‘s staff pick for best comic book of 2015—continues his unbeatable and unmatched streak of successes withPlutona. More

Aug 05, 2016 By Jeremy Nisen

Marjorie Liu (writer) and Sana Takeda (artist) present us with a master class in proper world-building. It’s an immense, matriarchal fantasy world full of details, but these details are delivered on a digestible, need-to-know basis, in the context of a compelling narrative, rather than a sledgehammer of info dump after info dump. More

Apr 17, 2015 By Zach Hollwede

Long-time and frequent collaborators, writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, team up again, this time to transport readers back to the golden age of Hollywood in The Fade Out. More

Dec 31, 2014 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

If you’re not reading Brian K. Vaughan’s and Fiona Staples’s award-winning series Saga, you’re missing out on one of the great sci-fi/comics/love/action/adventure/fiction stories of the past decade. More

Jul 25, 2014 By Zach Hollwedel

Grant Miller works for a high-level security organization that is very good at making problems disappear. The problem is, he’s just discovered that one of the problems he’s working on traces back to his employer. More

Jul 10, 2014 By Zach Hollwedel

In Ancient Greece, the Helots are considered the lowest of the low-outclassed by slaves and reminded of their standing by the Spartans, who mercilessly cut them down to prove their own might. More

May 14, 2014 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Quite possibly one of the most talked-about series currently ongoing, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals tells the story of two people who can stop time with their orgasms. And then they rob banks. Yes. You read that correctly. More

Sep 07, 2011 By Jeremy Nisen

Jonathan Ross, who’s described in shorthand as “the British David Letterman,” is a huge comics nerd, and has put his creative energy into a comics project with noted artist Tommy Lee Edwards. Turf is a tale weaving together several compelling genres: vampires, aliens, and gangsters, all vying for supremacy in prohibition-era New York City. But the cacophony of ideas may be more ambitious than successful. More

May 06, 2011 By Jeremy Nisen

Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors is off to a promising start. The high concept is basically “Harry Potter for supervillains,” with a healthy dash of The OC —and it works. More

Apr 28, 2010 By Jeremy Nisen

Talk about a pleasant surprise. Spawn: Origins Collection Book 1 reprints Spawn issues 1-12, which started publishing in 1992. It was one of the opening salvos from Image Comics, and boy was it popular. More

Feb 22, 2010 By Jeremy Nisen

Silver Streak Comics No. 24 is Image Comics’ second entry into its “The Next Issue Project,” wherein Image creators create the “next issue” of long-gone Golden Age series centered on public domain characters. More

Feb 11, 2010 By Jeremy Nisen

The several plots in Forgetless swirl around an event: some sort of epic club in New York that’s about to open its doors for the last time. The book is rife with modern pop culture-isms—such as texting, tweeting, and viral video provocateurs—and age-old truisms—such as disaffected youth in search of counterfeit identification for the purposes of obtaining alcohol and such. Those elements, especially the pop culture stuff, can pretty easily muddle a story, let alone when you mix in the kickoff plot—that of a down and out model-turned-assassin coming to the event to commit her first kill. More

Oct 07, 2009 By Jeremy Nisen

I don’t want to dance around my main irritation with this book: It’s being presented as a collaboration between noted writer Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead, Invincible, Astounding Wolf-Man) and artist Todd McFarlane. More