All throughout Kaare Andrews’ Renato Jones: The One% are flashback sequences made to look “old” through the use of color halftone effects and old paper textures. It’s digitally crafted nostalgia, achieved effortlessly and with little thought, simply dialed in as needed, which is fitting considering Renato Jones itself is more or less the same. An artless hodge podge […]
AD: After Death Brings Out the Best in Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
As we hurtle ourselves closer and closer to ecological destruction, countless pieces of cautionary fiction about our bad behavior are emerging. Many of these works buffer pessimism for our future with optimism about our problem solving abilities, like the chic and methodical Arrival, but some works are a bit more realistic in tone if not narrative. Scott […]
Questionable Comics: Ed Brisson and Chris Lewis
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Ed Brisson is one of comics’ top neo-noirists, with a history of excellent gritty writing on series like The Violent, The Mantle and The Field for Image, as well as credits on more action oriented fare […]
Waking Up: Alex + Ada and Non-Human Personhood
Fiction has no shortage of stand-ins for the human fear of losing our place at the top of the evolutionary ladder, but as we hurtle closer and closer towards creating sentient artificial intelligence, androids have become the stand-in of choice. While Westworld is currently the trendy and needlessly brutal representation of this, Jonathan Luna and Sara […]
Wondrous Digest: In Praise of Warren Ellis’ Abridged Storytelling
We should all be so lucky to get a six issue run from Warren Ellis, even more so if it is from the Big Two. Ellis, one of the premiere comic book scribes of the modern age, has rarely been one for long-form storytelling. His recent runs, usually comprised of a compressed, done-in-one style, last […]
Questionable Comics: Christopher Sebela and Ryan Ferrier
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up today is Twitter sensation comics writer Christopher Sebela, who has accumulated credits at most of the major comics publishers, including Boom, Oni, Image and Marvel. What current projects are you working on? […]
The Black Monday Murders is a Fresh, Challenging Creative Collaboration
Last week in my review of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips new series Kill or Be Killed, I discussed the trap of consistency, where creative collaborations can reach a point of technical mastery that becomes nearly claustrophobic, so it’s almost comically coincidental for Image to be publishing another work by a master whose style is so […]
Kill or Be Killed Claims to Be New and Different, but It’s Business as Usual for Brubaker and Phillips
There are some creative teams in comics that I’ll come out for whenever they release works, not because their consistency is so high that I know I’ll get perfection but because even if the work is disappointing, it’s still entertaining. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips stand out as especially symbolic of this, with their current […]
Rich Tommaso’s She Wolf #1 is a Striking but Uninspired Take on Werewolves
Werewolves appear to be having a moment in comics. The past couple years have seen that most primal of monster resurrected as everything from a supernatural detective in Ales Kot and Matt Taylor’s Wolf to a riff on the skinwalker myth in Cullen Bunn and Jeremy Haun’s Wolf Moon. Rich Tommaso’s new Image series She Wolf also […]
Midnight of the Soul is Howard Chaykin Channeling James Ellroy’s LA Quartet
I recently went through a heavy James Ellroy phase after finally tracking down some of his books that I had yet to read. The thing about reading Ellroy in chunks is that his prose is so fluid and readable it takes a while for the full weight of his viciousness to sink in. Burning through […]
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