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"Harkham’s cartooning conveys Alvarez’s cool calmness as he faces the death penalty; this is clearly a man who has other plans than facing the hangman’s noose." Scott on Sammy Harkham's Crickets #9. www.fromcovertocover.com/sammy-harkha...
Friends and Sinners in Sammy Harkham’s Crickets #9Crickets #9 contains many stories and yet feels like a singular, unified comic book.www.fromcovertocover.comScott reviews @paulchadwick.bsky.social's Concrete: Stars Over Sand #2 and writes, "Stars Over Sand is much more immediate and raw; this is happening in the here and now, not in the past as a memory," out now from @darkhorse.com. www.fromcovertocover.com/a-lambent-th...
A Lambent Thing-- Paul Chadwick's That Concrete: Stars Over Sand #2… this feels more like what the experience of waking up in an alien body would be— the confusion, disorientation, and fear…www.fromcovertocover.com“Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…” Wrote a bit about one of the best continuing #manga series around. www.fromcovertocover.com/go-into-kiyo...
Go Into Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 With Childlike WonderKiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…www.fromcovertocover.comKeigo Shinzo’s Hirayasumi is one of the best #manga series out there right now and @scottcederlund.bsky.social explores what he’s doing in the 7th volume. www.fromcovertocover.com/growing-up-d...
Growing Up Day by Day in Keigo Shinzo's Hirayasumi Volume 7Keigo Shinzo’s slice-of-life story captures the ups and downs that most of us face every day, reflecting them through our own insecurities as we watch these mismatched cousins try to navigate their li...www.fromcovertocover.comWe take a look at 1986’s The Question #1 by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan. www.fromcovertocover.com/dennis-oneil...
Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Restate The QuestionDennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan reintroduce The Question only to tear him down again before they can build him back up.www.fromcovertocover.comThis review is going back about 15+ years but here’s a look from 2010 at Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s excellent Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights. www.fromcovertocover.com/beasts-of-bu...
From the Archives- Beasts of Burden: Animal RightsHave you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?www.fromcovertocover.com“Exploring the ways that we play roles to protect ourselves, nearly every person in this story is trying to be something that they’re not.” Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. www.fromcovertocover.com/mark-russell...
“Change Your Heart…”— Lessons from Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss ChroniclesMark Russell and Mike Feehan’s comic is a reminder and a call to arms.www.fromcovertocover.comWe start out 2026 by looking back on 2025 a bit- the personal highs and lows of it. www.fromcovertocover.com/na-na-na-na-...
Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye (to 2025)-- Comic Bookmarks for January 4, 2026The year that was...www.fromcovertocover.com"Pope’s inky artwork makes it sometimes difficult to separate the mundane from the wondrous in this story." We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One. www.fromcovertocover.com/total-thb-vo...
Is There Life on Mars? — a look at Paul Pope’s Total THB Volume OneTotal THB doesn’t feel like a 30 year old comic book.www.fromcovertocover.com“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.” This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks. www.fromcovertocover.com/charles-soul...
Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in HellFrank Miller casts a long shadow over this story and Charles Soule and Steve McNiven know it.www.fromcovertocover.com“While it seems easy to boil his work down to simple descriptions that frees you to offhandedly quantify and classify his work as something “Jasonesque”, that’s also an abdication of engaging with Jason in any meaningful way.” www.fromcovertocover.com/the-rebellio...
The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In TriesteJason doesn’t give you any more than he has to and that’s often less than you think you need.www.fromcovertocover.comCaroline Cash “expresses joy, frustration, resignation, and joy in her cartooning so it’s easy to get lost in this story without feeling like Cash is having to pull us into it.” Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special. www.fromcovertocover.com/adventure-ti...
Off to College in Caroline Cash's Adventure Time Alternate Universe StorySo if we know that the story is a meet-cute story, that allows Cash to focus on how we move through this story.www.fromcovertocover.comFinally continuing our look at the initial Absolute titles from DC, we dive into Absolute Superman and how it may be a giving us a Superman for 2025. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-kids-are...
The Kids Aren't Alright Part 2-- Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval's Absolute Superman: Last Dust of KryptonSo what does the story of an alien boy, saved from a dying world by his parents and sent to Earth, look like in 2025 when “alien” is an extremely loaded and fraught word?www.fromcovertocover.comGiovanna Fabi “moves around the spaces of these connections and the void produced when one of them goes away. Her artwork is very simple and open; it’s easy to put yourself into the position of both the woman and the man…” www.fromcovertocover.com/giovanna-fab...
Loving the Grid in Giovanna Fabi’s Perfect Love (mini kuš! #133)Giovanna Fabi uses her artwork to evoke so many feelings out of the reader.www.fromcovertocover.com“… there’s nothing in Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo to suggest that Bruce Wayne has any idea of how to engage in the world other than lashing out at it.” A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-scott...
The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The ZooNick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.www.fromcovertocover.com“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-judge...
We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better WorldThe perfect comic that we need in 2025.www.fromcovertocover.com“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…” Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-kevin...
Review— Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent BobWhy does this comic exist?www.fromcovertocover.com"Turns out that The Umbrella Academy’s mum and dad had a whole other family. A secret family. Maybe even a favorite family. A better family." Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com. www.fromcovertocover.com#gsc.tab=0
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Comic Bookmarks link post so we’re catching up on news essays, and reviews as well as kicking off this year’s summer season. www.fromcovertocover.com/comic-bookma...
RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025Our summer season started this week. You may remember that last year, our 2024 summer season included posts (almost) every week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I'm not too sure if we're going to b...www.fromcovertocover.com