From the twisting imagination of James Kochalka comes the funny send-up of the Superman mythos “Little Mister Man.” Gag-o-licious, with heartwarming moments.
It hasn’t been a good start to the year, comically speaking. With news of no more Calvin & Hobbes, and just one more issue each of Sandman and Love & Rockets…
I’d like to suggest the pricey (but very worth the price) hardcover graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. I could do a whole column just on this masterpiece.
It’s the first thing you notice about the place. It’s not the color or the noise. It’s not the people. The first thing you notice is always the same: the smell.
Now it’s all gone, wiped out in what could be just another case of Darwinian business reality. Maybe that’s all it is. But that wouldn’t make a good read.
Sure, Thor has sucked like tar since Walt Simonson left in 1987, but a new storyline by Warren Ellis and art by Mike Deodato, add a whole fresh, godlike start.
Even if you find a comic store that is well-lit, professionally arranged, and staffed by people who wash regularly, it still seems an intimidating place.
Hilariously and often poignantly lived through is Bitchy Bitch, an every-woman trying to live in a man’s world and survive doing it. Consistently a great book.
This extra-dimensional energy was the result of an alien scientist’s experiment that went kablooey because the United States set off atom bombs in the ’50s.