Talli, Daughter of the Moon, Volume One by Sourya (2022)
Author Sourya may be French-Laotian, but Talli, Daughter of the Moon is heavily influenced by Japan…
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The Fellspyre Chronicles, Book One by Phillip K. Johnson, Dan Watters, and Riccardo Federici (2023)
I feel like the title alone — The Fellspyre Chronicles — tells you everything you can expect here. …
Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubin (2023)
A detective’s latest case becomes something much more than a simple murder mystery when the victim …
Dega by Dan McDaid (2023)
An astronaut stranded on an apparently deserted planet with her robot companion makes a fascinating…
Dead Weight: Murder at Camp Bloom by Terry Blas, Molly Muldoon, and Matthew Seely (2018)
I checked this one out from the library on a whim simply because the premise was intriguing: a grou…
The Daughters of Ys by M. T. Anderson and Jo Rioux (2020)
Inspired by classic Breton folk tales, The Daughters of Ys spins a dark tale about two sisters driv…
Incredible Doom Returns with Volume Three: Eternal September
The new volume focuses on those heady days when the World Wide Web was just beginning to break into mainstream culture.
Incredible Doom by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden (2021)
Back in the early ’90s, my friend Eric ran a bulletin board system (BBS) where I spent hours discus…
Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki (2022)
Inspired by a Tibetan folktale, Shuna’s Journey has many of the usual Hayao Miyazaki tropes (e.g., …
Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song by Austin Paramore and Sarah Bollinger (2023)
I checked out Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song from the library on a whim, and I’m glad I did. Aust…
Arca by Van Jensen and Jesse Lonergan (2023)
In Earth’s final days, a group of billionaires and celebrities hatch a plan: they’ll leave Earth on…
House of El by Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadzki (2021)
I’m not a big fan of DC’s live-action movies. (Sorry, Snyder Cut fans.) I do, however, enjoy their …
Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, and José Villarrubia (2018)
The horror genre is often used to tackle heavy issues, including religious fanaticism, mental illne…
Orphans, Volume One by Roberto Recchioni and Emiliano Mammucari (2018)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Earth faces an extraterrestrial threat and so humanity, de…
Maybe Someday: Stories of Promise, Visions of Hope by Various Artists (2020)
A Wave Blue World’s Maybe Someday is an anthology of sci-fi stories whose purpose is to “inspire re…
Appleseed: Hypernotes by Masamune Shirow (1996)
Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed was one of my very first anime/manga titles back in the early ’90s, and…
Seven to Eternity: Deluxe Edition by Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña (2022)
Seven to Eternity is worth reading if only to feast your eyes on Jerome Opeña’s lush and intricatel…
Mister X: The Archives by Dean Motter (2017)
I’ve been fascinated by Dean Motter’s Mister X ever since I saw an ad for its CD-ROM in the pages o…
Strange Skies Over East Berlin by Jeff Loveness and Lisandro Estherren (2020)
While I was reading Strange Skies Over East Berlin, I realized that I’d actually read it before. Wh…
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno (2022)
Ten friends, all dealing with the various trials and tribulations of adulthood, are invited to a ge…