Long Distance #3

Long Distance #3 continues the comic romance by Thom Zahler in just the right ways. At first, Carter and Lee are floating on air. They’ve hit a major new point in their relationship, and their exhilaration at sharing their joy with friends floats off the pages. (It’s a modern romance, in that whether or not to say “I love you” is more significant than swapping bodily fluids.) I like the way there’s a whole cast here, with co-workers and family [...]
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Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell

Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell was a webcomic that ran from 2009-2013. I read it during that time, but since I came in at the middle, I was never sure what was going on, other than it was a bizarre blend of hipster life and religious imagery. This handsome hardcover collection of the whole strip (plus endnotes, character sketches, and a bookmark ribbon) caught me up. Sophie Goldstein (The Oven) co-writes with Jenn Jordan and draws this strip, which [...]
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The Oven

The Oven has the weirdly unreal feel of a modern fable, in part due to its science fiction approach. Sophie Goldstein’s story tells of a couple who leave urban civilization so they can reproduce outside of society’s rules. They head out to a broken-down trailer camp where babies are possible, but they haven’t realized what living on one’s own really means and how much they’d have to sacrifice for their hope of a family. The art is deceptively simple, and [...]
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Cassius #1

Cassius #1, written by Emily Willis and illustrated by Ann Uland, is something different in comics. It’s a takeoff from Julius Caesar featuring a fascinating woman sent on a quest against her will. From what I can tell, Junia lives in an alternate Ancient Rome. She has the possibility of becoming a Senator, because she’s involved with one of the local leaders. Her friend and mentor, Caius, has returned home, but their reunion is cut short. Junia finds herself involved [...]
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Genshiken: Second Season Volume 6

Genshiken: Second Season has focused a lot on Hato, and volume 6 is no exception. It’s not surprising, since he’s an only-in-comics character that captures a lot about fandom, the focus of this manga. I do worry, though, that part of the reason I can’t keep the other members of the club straight sometimes is because we’ve spent so much time with him. Hato’s a cross-dresser, a fanboy who took his love of yaoi (termed BL here, which is more [...]
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Metal Locus #1-2

Often, when I’m sent independent action-adventure comics, the weak point is the art. Too many aspiring creators don’t understand perspective or three-dimensionality or the need for backgrounds. That’s very much not the case with Metal Locus. The art, by Larry Watts, is of professional quality. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it in a corporate superhero comic. The concept, written by Stephan Nilson, is also intriguing. A data courier is given a new, in-demand program to carry in his head [...]
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Lulu Anew

Lulu Anew tackles a topic not often seen in the young adult male-focused American comic industry: the soul-sucking mundanity of life as a housewife. Lulu leaves a job interview knowing that she didn’t get the position. Her time away from the workforce to raise three children makes her undesirable. Instead of going home, she realizes how unhappy she is and how she’s taken for granted, so she wanders to the coast, where she spends time with a man she meets [...]
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World’s Finest Actor

It’s pretty tough to write a bio of a famous person who’s become well known for curmudgeonness. Bill Murray notoriously doesn’t like to play by anyone’s rules, to the extent of replacing his agent with an answering machine at an 800 number. So Robert Schnakenberg, instead of interviewing him, put together a kind of nerd trivia encyclopedia, a volume with short entries arranged from A-Z on topics related to the star. (He’s previously done similar books on Christopher Walken and [...]
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