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This review is going back about 15+ years but here’s a look from 2010 at Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s excellent Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights.
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From the Archives- Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights
Have you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?
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January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This review is going back about 15+ years but here’s a look from 2010 at Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s excellent Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights.
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“Exploring the ways that we play roles to protect ourselves, nearly every person in this story is trying to be something that they’re not.”
Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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“Change Your Heart…”— Lessons from Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s comic is a reminder and a call to arms.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“Exploring the ways that we play roles to protect ourselves, nearly every person in this story is trying to be something that they’re not.”
Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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Tomorrow on the site.
January 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Tomorrow on the site.
We start out 2026 by looking back on 2025 a bit- the personal highs and lows of it.
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Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye (to 2025)-- Comic Bookmarks for January 4, 2026
The year that was...
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January 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
We start out 2026 by looking back on 2025 a bit- the personal highs and lows of it.
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"Pope’s inky artwork makes it sometimes difficult to separate the mundane from the wondrous in this story."
We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One.
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We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One.
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Is There Life on Mars? — a look at Paul Pope’s Total THB Volume One
Total THB doesn’t feel like a 30 year old comic book.
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January 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
"Pope’s inky artwork makes it sometimes difficult to separate the mundane from the wondrous in this story."
We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One.
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We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One.
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“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.”
This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks.
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This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks.
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Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell
Frank Miller casts a long shadow over this story and Charles Soule and Steve McNiven know it.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.”
This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks.
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This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks.
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“While it seems easy to boil his work down to simple descriptions that frees you to offhandedly quantify and classify his work as something “Jasonesque”, that’s also an abdication of engaging with Jason in any meaningful way.”
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The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In Trieste
Jason doesn’t give you any more than he has to and that’s often less than you think you need.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“While it seems easy to boil his work down to simple descriptions that frees you to offhandedly quantify and classify his work as something “Jasonesque”, that’s also an abdication of engaging with Jason in any meaningful way.”
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I see that there’s a Kickstarter campaign for a colorized version of Brian Bolland’s The Actress and the Bishop. I wrote a bit about the strip a couple of years ago. If you haven’t seen these, they’re a lot of fun.
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One Panel- The Actress and the Bishop Throw a Party by Brian Bolland
A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I see that there’s a Kickstarter campaign for a colorized version of Brian Bolland’s The Actress and the Bishop. I wrote a bit about the strip a couple of years ago. If you haven’t seen these, they’re a lot of fun.
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Caroline Cash “expresses joy, frustration, resignation, and joy in her cartooning so it’s easy to get lost in this story without feeling like Cash is having to pull us into it.”
Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special.
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Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special.
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Off to College in Caroline Cash's Adventure Time Alternate Universe Story
So if we know that the story is a meet-cute story, that allows Cash to focus on how we move through this story.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Caroline Cash “expresses joy, frustration, resignation, and joy in her cartooning so it’s easy to get lost in this story without feeling like Cash is having to pull us into it.”
Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special.
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Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special.
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Finally continuing our look at the initial Absolute titles from DC, we dive into Absolute Superman and how it may be a giving us a Superman for 2025.
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The Kids Aren't Alright Part 2-- Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval's Absolute Superman: Last Dust of Krypton
So what does the story of an alien boy, saved from a dying world by his parents and sent to Earth, look like in 2025 when “alien” is an extremely loaded and fraught word?
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September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Finally continuing our look at the initial Absolute titles from DC, we dive into Absolute Superman and how it may be a giving us a Superman for 2025.
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“Maybe the Love and Rockets stories should be about growing up and not about being grown up. Enter Tonta and her friends.”
On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings.
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On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings.
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Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings
Is this Love and Rockets: The Next Generation or the continuation of an ongoing story that started over 40 years ago?
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March 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Maybe the Love and Rockets stories should be about growing up and not about being grown up. Enter Tonta and her friends.”
On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings.
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On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings.
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Giovanna Fabi “moves around the spaces of these connections and the void produced when one of them goes away. Her artwork is very simple and open; it’s easy to put yourself into the position of both the woman and the man…”
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Loving the Grid in Giovanna Fabi’s Perfect Love (mini kuš! #133)
Giovanna Fabi uses her artwork to evoke so many feelings out of the reader.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Giovanna Fabi “moves around the spaces of these connections and the void produced when one of them goes away. Her artwork is very simple and open; it’s easy to put yourself into the position of both the woman and the man…”
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The first In a planned trio (or maybe quartet) of pieces on the Absolute line over the next month or two.
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The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo
Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.
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August 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The first In a planned trio (or maybe quartet) of pieces on the Absolute line over the next month or two.
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“… there’s nothing in Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo to suggest that Bruce Wayne has any idea of how to engage in the world other than lashing out at it.”
A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo.
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A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo.
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The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo
Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.
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August 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“… there’s nothing in Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo to suggest that Bruce Wayne has any idea of how to engage in the world other than lashing out at it.”
A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo.
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A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo.
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“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.”
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We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World
The perfect comic that we need in 2025.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.”
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“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.”
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We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World
The perfect comic that we need in 2025.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.”
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“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…”
Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.
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Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.
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Review— Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob
Why does this comic exist?
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July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…”
Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.
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Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.
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January 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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My review of Maurice Vellekoop’s 2024 book “I’m So Happy We Had This Time Together.”
“There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.”
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“There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.”
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Review: I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop
This forms the space for Vellekoop to dig into these different relationships in his life, some of which are deep-rooted while others are fleeting connections that are more building blocks for Maurice ...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My review of Maurice Vellekoop’s 2024 book “I’m So Happy We Had This Time Together.”
“There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.”
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“There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.”
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"Turns out that The Umbrella Academy’s mum and dad had a whole other family. A secret family. Maybe even a favorite family. A better family."
Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com.
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Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Turns out that The Umbrella Academy’s mum and dad had a whole other family. A secret family. Maybe even a favorite family. A better family."
Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com.
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Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com.
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“…as just a taste of what was and what is to come, Road to the Six is the right amount of that old familiar spark of action/adventure and the promise that there are more stories to tell…”
A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest.
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A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest.
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The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0
Sometimes a tease is all you need.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“…as just a taste of what was and what is to come, Road to the Six is the right amount of that old familiar spark of action/adventure and the promise that there are more stories to tell…”
A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest.
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A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest.
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It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Comic Bookmarks link post so we’re catching up on news essays, and reviews as well as kicking off this year’s summer season.
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RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025
Our summer season started this week. You may remember that last year, our 2024 summer season included posts (almost) every week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I'm not too sure if we're going to b...
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June 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Comic Bookmarks link post so we’re catching up on news essays, and reviews as well as kicking off this year’s summer season.
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Now up on the site.
@denizcamp.bsky.social “has obviously read a lot of superhero comics and it seems like he thinks that most of them have done it wrong.”
My look at Camp and @ericxyz.bsky.social’s through-provoking Assorted Crisis Events #3, out now from @imagecomics.com.
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My look at Camp and @ericxyz.bsky.social’s through-provoking Assorted Crisis Events #3, out now from @imagecomics.com.
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More Than Just Another Crisis— a look at Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki’s Assorted Crisis Events #3
This comic is not apologetic about being a bit preachy.
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May 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Now up on the site.
We’ve made a tag for books that we’ve covered that have earned an Eisner award and plan to be adding to this over the next two months.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’ve made a tag for books that we’ve covered that have earned an Eisner award and plan to be adding to this over the next two months.
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There’s an odd flattening out in Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens that makes it a really interesting read.
And it’s anti-entertainment megacorps so that’s another plus for it.
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And it’s anti-entertainment megacorps so that’s another plus for it.
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Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens
Gerard Way and Shawn Simon doing their obscure Vertigo book, just for Dark Horse. So who better to get to draw than Chris Weston?
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May 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There’s an odd flattening out in Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens that makes it a really interesting read.
And it’s anti-entertainment megacorps so that’s another plus for it.
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And it’s anti-entertainment megacorps so that’s another plus for it.
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