Comic Books

2017 is going to be a monumental year for Danny Rand, the Marvel Comics superhero known as Iron Fist. In addition to getting his own Netflix series in March, later in the year he'll join Daredevil, Jessica...

No one would fault you if you don’t automatically associate superheroes with Fantagraphics. After all, the publisher’s offerings tend to veer on the alternative end of the comic book spectrum, known for...

Such a Lovely Little War is a remarkable graphic novel that engages both heart and head, and Truong’s artwork provides an abstracted realism that perfectly reinforces both the viewpoint of a six year-old,...

One of the great oft-touted benefits of webcomics is that a creator can reach a worldwide audience with ease. The flip side of that coin, though, is that while it exposes the work to a huge potential audience...

Review: Star Wars Annual #2 "Star Wars Annual #2 doesn’t work just as a commentary on the price of war, but also a character study of how ideologies about war can be so conflicting, depending one’s...

In the first arc of writer Samuel Sattin and artist Chris Koehler’s Legend, out in trade paperback now from Z2 Comics, when the apocalypse descends upon the Earth, animals are left holding the reins of...

One of the dilemmas facing webcomic creators, particularly those that don't already have a large fanbase, is how to get word out of new updates. There's obviously a lot of noise on the internet, and a creator...

Over the past 60 years the kinds of wars fought by the United States and its allies have changed dramatically. After a brief period of major combat operations, modern conflicts too often devolve into an...

Review: A.D.: After Death Volume 1 "A.D.: After Death lingers the way a good book is supposed to linger. The way those questions of life and the universe are supposed to linger, long after you’ve put...

Review: The Goddamned #5 "The Goddamned #5 is the natural, yet perfect, conclusion to a tale of a fallen world, a world that might have always been fallen and might always be destined to be fallen....