Category: book review

Welcome to the Maynard by James Robinson, art by J. Bone. Dark Horse, 2025. 9781506744919. Contains #1 – 4 of the series. Pip starts working as a bellhop at the Maynard, a fancy hotel for the magic community. It’s all […]
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Holy Lacrimony by Michael Deforge. Drawn and Quarterly, 2025. 9781770467552. 120pp. Jackie is abducted by aliens because he’s the saddest living person on Earth. They’re interested in human emotions they don’t experience; he’s expected to put on performances for them. […]
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Punycorn and the Princess of Thieves by Andi Watson. Clarion Books, 2025. 9780358572008. 202pp. Punycorn’s sword Bloodgutter is broken and needs to be fixed, which is even more of a problem than that might otherwise seem because Bloodgutter is Punycorn’s […]
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James Bond 007: Your Cold, Cold Heart by Garth Ennis and artist Rapha Lobosco. Dynamite, 2024. 9781524125523. Contains #1 – 6. Bond is hunting for a secret weapon that the British developed after stealing it from the Soviets back in […]
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Muybridge by Guy Delisle. Translation by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall.  Drawn & Quarterly, 2025. 9781770467729. 218pp. Includes credits for all photos in the book and a timeline of the lives of the artists, photographers, and others appearing in the […]
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A Shining Beacon by James Albon. Top Shelf, 2019. 9781603094450. 205pp. An authoritarian government has created a new pool that’s both a grand rejuvenation project and a national sporting monument! All that remains is to find an artist to create […]
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Trumpets of Death by Simon Bournel-Bosson. Translated by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Universe, 2025. 9798765644324. 230pp. One night, Antoine’s father drops him off at his grandparents’ place in the country. He’s never liked it there; it’s full of his grandfather’s spooky […]
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Tower Dungeon Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei. Translation: Sam Malissa. Kodansha, 2025. 9781647294540. Publisher’s Rating: 13+. Princess Ignelia has been taken to the Dragon Tower, where most of the troops who tried to rescue her have been killed. Each village […]
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The Great American Dust Bowl written and illustrated by Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin, 2013. 9780547815503. Includes a selected bibliography and source notes that include a few stunning photographs. I recently ordered every one of Don Brown’s nonfiction graphic novels from […]
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The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and The Case of the Two-Faced Statue by Jerzy Drozd. Iron Circus, 2024. 978163899143. 248pp. Doctor Baer (that’s him, the plush-bear-looking dude on the cover) stores adventurers’ cursed objects. His house is also home to many […]
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