comic books

LIZ WALKER is the author of 2016: The Best and the Worst of Each Damn Week. She is a freelance writer, reluctant comic artist, part-time Morrissey journalist, occasional painter, and professional slacker.…

1. Civil War II (No. 4, Sept 2016, Marvel) – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez & Justin Ponsor If your favorite comic book movie this year was Captain America: Civil…

1. X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever (No. 3, June 2016, Marvel) – Max Bemis, Michael Walsh & Ruth Redmond Feeling old? Lost that inexpressible X that you had when you were…

1. SuperZero (No. 3, Feb 2016, AfterShock) – Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti & Rafael De Latorre Quite easily the most entertaining new series in AfterShock Comics’ roster, Conner & Palmiotti’s…

1. Paper Girls (No. 1, Oct 2015, Image) – Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson All kinds of awesome, Paper Girls has quickly made it onto the top…

1. NEW MGMT / MIND MGMT (No. 1 / No. 36, Aug 2015, Dark Horse) – Matt Kindt If the nip in the October air and the imminent end of…

1. Giant Days (No. 6, Aug 2015, BOOM! Box) – John Allison, Lissa Treiman & Whitney Cogar If there was but one saving grace in the vast arid wasteland that…

1. Where Monsters Dwell (No. 3, Sept 2015, Marvel) – Garth Ennis, Russ Braun & Dono Sanchez Almara A Feminist twist on the vintage fantasy adventure monster genre, Ennis &…

1. Material (No. 2, June 2015, Image) – Ales Kot & Will Tempest A sociopolitical and philosophical palate cleanser, Kot & Tempest’s art house comic is tailor-made to pique the…

  Figurines and dolls have always offered anthropologists a glimpse into the more playful side of the human species’ openness to storytelling and myth making. Daniel Picard’s new book Figure…

1. Chrononauts (No. 3, May 2015, Image) – Mark Millar, Sean Gordon Murphy & Matt Hollingsworth Mad Max meets Back to the Future, Mark Millar’s labor of love concerning “two…

1. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (No. 4, June 2015, Marvel) – Ryan North, Erica Henderson & Rico Renzi Neck and neck with Nick Spencer’s Ant-Man, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is…

1. Princess Leia (No. 2, May 2015, Marvel) – Mark Waid, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson & Jordie Bellaire If you’re going to read only one Star Wars title this year,…

Khanh Nguyen, “Awake” KHANH NGUYEN is a visual designer from southern California. For two years, he drew a weekly strip for UCSD’s The Guardian newspaper, and now hosts his work through his…