“Comics” Archives

Describing Something Is Killing the Children as a series about a highly trained young woman with sp…

I’ve liked Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels for years. They’re grim and deeply cynical — Moorcock wr…

This is a surprisingly difficult review to write. Like anyone who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, I w…

The widowed Mrs. Whitaker lives a perfectly ordinary life: tending her garden, having lunch with fr…

Ever since reading Reckless, I’ve been on the lookout for more crime noir comics. Image Comics’ New…

There’s a lot to like about Gideon Falls, right up until the final page. Jeff Lemire’s storyline bl…

Neil Gaiman brings the story of Morpheus, King of Dreams, to an end following the events of Volume …

The most ambitious Sandman volume to date, with Neil Gaiman wrapping up several storylines from pre…

I was a bit cool on this volume at first, with its disjointed stories told by a group of travelers …

My least favorite Sandman volume so far. It possesses some cool ideas and concepts (e.g., the famil…

And all you need to read them is a valid library card.

This series of short stories is largely disconnected from the larger Sandman mythos; Morpheus appea…

As I was reading A Game of You, I realized that this was the very first Sandman story that I ever r…

I’m probably in the minority here, but I actually enjoy 2005’s Constantine, which stars Keanu Reeve…

For his first major work since 1995, Bill Watterson teams up with caricaturist John Kascht to produce “a fable for grown-ups.”

BOOM! Studios’ upcoming comic series explores an untold chapter in the Expanse saga.

In some ways, this is the grimmest of the Reckless series so far, as Ethan gets drawn into a woman’…

Fueled by Brubaker’s own childhood and ’80s nostalgia, Reckless is a thrilling story set in the decade’s lurid underbelly.

This volume focuses less on Ethan Reckless, and more on his closest friend and co-worker, Anna, as …

I continue to enjoy Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Reckless series. The series is obviously indebte…