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30 Days of Night
Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. By now, those two names should definitely be followed by ‘N’uff Said.’ But for the sake of posterity, we’re going to take a look at 30 Days of Night, because why not....
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That Poor Bastard
“Joe Matt is a painfully honest man.” Never has a truer sentence been uttered, and in getting into That Poor Bastard (a collection of the first six issues of the comic Peepshow), you will see just how...
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Library, Volume 1
Sex, drugs, and more drugs! Well, a cat too. That pretty much sums up Fat Freddy, Phineas, and Freewheelin’ Franklin; loveable and disgruntled, they are The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Gilbert...
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Prelude to a Million Years
It’s a good thing that ‘relevant definitions’ is on this site. Otherwise, this comic may not have found review here. Well, to be fair, Lynd Ward and a host of others are the reasons both the need for...
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Superman: Red Son
Krypton blew up. It was sad and stuff, but it happened. Luckily, Jor-El jettisoned his son Kal-el from the planet before everything went kablooey. Kal-El landed in a Kansas field here on Earth,...
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The Sandman: Endless Nights
Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction, and Destiny. We all experience them for the most part. They pervade many areas of our everyday lives in one way or another. But if you had to draw...
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The Comic Book History of Comics
It seems that everything is a matter of audience. How you put out what you put out depends on who you’re trying to reach. Scott McCloud emphasized this very clearly by crafting his ideas on how comics...
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The Bradleys
Buddy Bradley is not a role model, he is not a nice person, and his life is not something to be emulated. He is significant though, and you can get in on the ground floor with Peter Bagge’s The...
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Regards from Serbia
In reading about wars and conflicts, we often think about two perspectives – those on either side. There are good guys and there are bad guys, aggressors and defenders, right? Well, most things are...
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Knights of the Diner Table: Tales from the Vault Volume 1
Life brings quite a few exhilarating moments. A child’s birth, getting a big win in a game of any sort, reading a good book. And for me, one of the most heart thumping moments has been rolling a...
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Palestine
Jerusalem, Palestine, Arab, Jew. The conversation has been going on a long time, and the conflict is incredibly intricate. In the winter of 1991-91, Joe Sacco decided to see what he could find out by...
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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Have you ever gone on vacation in a completely foreign land and felt a little lost? Did that vacation destination happen to be in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world? Well, Guy Delisle...
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How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
In coming to terms with her position on the Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem situation, Sarah Glidden decided to take her birthright trip to the Holy City, and she put her experience to paper in her How...
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
Harvey Pekar has been a pillar of American comics for decades, and the last complete work he created before his death, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, is at face value something more removed...
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Apocalypse City
John Hoban has brought two issues of Apocalypse City in to the world, and this independent publisher has had a strong start. The story centers around private investigator Matt Sharpe and his ability...
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King City
Near omnipotent Demon King is reanimated and threatens life on Earth. Sounds like a preformatted, prepackaged, and regurgitated sci-fi movie with obviously synthetic special effects, right? Well,...
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Black Hole
How do you take superpowers, put them in an everyday setting, and keep a sense of realness? The first seemingly logical step would be to take away the fantastic element of superpowers and make them...
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SCUD the Disposable Assassin
Three coins are all you need. I don’t know the denomination, but it only takes three small metal circles (well, cylinders, actually, but who wants to split hairs) to buy a...
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Stop Forgetting To Remember
Walter Kurtz is Peter Kuper? Yep, but not in the Finkle is Einhorn sense. In Kuper’s Stop Forgetting To Remember, Kurtz lays out his life in gritty detail from sexual encounters to the fears of...
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My Friend Dahmer
Here at Eric And Comics, we’ve looked at killers in different fashions. Frank Castle kills people – a lot of people, especially in Punisher: Born. And our friendly protagonist in Jacamon and Mat’s The...
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