Tyrell Cannon’s Gary: Book Three is the last of three books in the Gary cycle. The books collect memories from the life of a serial killer.

Way back in January of 2012 I wrote a review for the first volume of Tall Tales from the Badlands and I dug it a lot. This was partly because I have a lot of affection for the Western genre, but it had a lot more to do with the fact that all the creative talent involved was obviously committed to their crafts and told some really solid stories. So when the chance to read the second volume of the book came along I was definitely interested.

The Last Romantic Antihero stuns in every way—a graphic and story-telling achievement. The apocalypse has never been so beautiful.

It took me a long time to understand that intelligence isn’t strictly an attribute endowed to us by genetics or some kind of cosmic rule. I mean, aside from learning disabilities, intelligence was often a matter of work habit- if you found something interesting enough, then you found the drive to learn about it, and so you became intelligent through your own efforts and practice. People would often compliment someone’s intelligence as if it were some kind of inbred quality, like hair color. Really, though, anyone can be smart if they just practice. Most of the time.

Plastic Farm likes to meander. From issue to issue the focus shifts from chronologically disjointed flashbacks to subtly related side stories, and I couldn’t help but feel a little motion sick trying to keep up. Art that evokes burnt out drug imagery and doodles sketched in the borders of textbooks, and mutating panel work promises that these vague characters with vague motivations will deliver compellingly weird diversions, but unfortunately the main thrust of the plot itself stays out of focus for almost fifty pages. Sprawling narrative, disjointed storytelling, and a lack of concern for the reader’s attention span leaves an impression that there could have been some judicious editing.

For the first eighteen or so years of my life I was a big baby when it came to horror movies, to the point where my friends still remind me that I came about as close to freaking the f*** out and hiding behind a couch and screaming “I HATE HORROR MOVIES!!!” to the lightning streaked heavens while watching stuff like Lake Placid and Mars Attacks which are, respectively, a monster flick about a giant alligator and a broad, albeit violent, comedy about an alien invasion which should give you just enough of an indication of how dumb I was (they’re also both terrible but that’s neither here nor there).

I’ll admit, before reading the first issue of Dracula the Unconquered a little over a year ago, I knew I was going to like it based on the creative team alone. And their willingness to give a full length comic book away for a dollar, which I believe is the perfect price point for digital comics.

I took a macroeconomics course in college and it was pretty interesting, but it was the only education I ever got on the subject. I learned about supply and demand, nominal GDP versus real GDP and all this other stuff that I’ve largely forgotten. My teacher was awesome though. That’s all I remember. So really, it’s great when someone comes along and writes a primer on economics that is both highly informative and easily accessible. Dan Burr and Michael Goodwin did that here, and they did it in comic form. Heck yes.

A Mutual Feeling by Andrew Cohen follows John Lafferty, Irish immigrant to the United States circa 1850. He has a job breaking rocks, and busting skulls for Tammany Hall. He is also a bare knuckle boxer.

Saturday night at SPX 2012 the team and I ran onto Johnny Sand, a very nice fellow indeed. He told us about his comic Tookhan Daddy. I knew I would have to pick it up the next day because it just sounded so outrageous.

What a brutal-looking cover. Richard Poplak, Alex Jansen, Jason Gilmore and Nick Marinkovich have given the reader something to behold: Kenk: A Graphic Novel.

Everyone loves polytheistic wars. Monotheism is pretty boring because all you ever get are good/evil metaphors and one-on-one boxing matches, but with polytheism you can really mix things up. You can base your morality on a spectrum instead of a either/or dynamic. You can have alliances and subterfuge. That’s why the Greek Pantheon played out like a [...]