comics

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 &…

  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…

ADAM MILLER is a photographer, writer, and multimedia artist from Boston. He is co-creator of the ZombieBomb! comic anthology series for Terminal Press, and has done covers for a variety of books and comics.…

Image by Swapna Krishna via Panels Game of Thrones and Marx (The Guardian, 4/6) Sesame Street‘s “Game of Chairs” (YouTube, 4/6) Rejected Sesame Street Muppets. (Mental Floss, 11/10/09) Are you…

1. Fast Descent into Hell!/To Sacrifice My Soul…/Into the Land of Death…/Lost Souls! Marvel Fanfare #1-4, Chris Claremont, Michael Golden, Dave Cockrum, Bob McLeod So much of the appeal from…

Hi there, my name is Keith McCleary. I’m Entropy’s new Comics Curator, and this is The New Comics. Well, not quite yet. Fellow geeks are probably already well aware of this…

I was, and often still am, made ashamed for not being “manly” enough. It happens less than when I was younger, but back in high school I wore tight pants,…

1. Ant-Man (No. 1, Mar 2015, Marvel) – Nick Spencer, Ramon Rosanas & Jordan Boyd If the newest iteration of Ant-Man is any indication, 2015 will quickly unfold as the…

In a year of rampant misogyny and cringe-inducing comment threads, comic books have surprisingly been one of the most welcoming places to find respite from the deluge of daily sexual…

1. ODY-C (No. 1, Nov 2014, Image) – Matt Fraction & Christian Ward Rounding out our end-of-year depository of “best of” titles is Matt Fraction & Christian Ward’s ODY-C. An…

1. Sex Criminals (No. 8, Oct 2014, Image) – Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky The word of the month is education. Anyone who has taught in a traditional classroom setting…

Image via kissing–razorss.tumblr.com Any time is a good time for horror/horrific comic books, but October and Halloween are especially good times for reading about ghosts, ghouls, and the like. Here…