I enjoy comics and graphic novels, but I have always found the big DC and Marvel comics to be very unapproachable. Their comic universes are so complicated and sprawling at this point that I have never seen what felt like a good jumping-in point, despite liking many characters from both universes. So, when I saw…
I think I spoiled this one for myself, folks. We’ve reached peak Harley Quinn saturation. Reading a graphic novel origin story pales in comparison to the brilliant Harley Quinn animated series on HBO Max. Stepjan Šejić’s Harleen sets out to tell of the iconic harlequin’s origin story, but it ends up getting weighed down by…
Happy Halloween everyone, enjoy a special post! Batman: Haunted Knight collects three Halloween tales by writer Jeph Loeb and illustrator Tim Sale. Famous for The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, the pair should be considered among the most trusted minds to weave a fantastic Batman story. Each of the brief stories in Haunted Knight glows…
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Neil Gaiman’s The Books of Magic lives up to its name. Combining Gaiman’s distinct charm with illustrations by John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, and Paul Johnson, Magic stands as a narrative wonder among the pantheon of amazing graphic novels. In fact, published in 1993, it may have built the foundation on which some of…
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