One of my all-time favorite comics is Grant Morrison’s run on the weird superhero comic Doom Patrol (which has been collected in a series of graphic novels, but they are unfortunately not in the Library’s collection). Morrison really played up the weirdness, throwing in all kinds of surreal and absurd characters and situations, while always […]

It’s true to say I’ve been a Superman fan as far back as I can remember, but it’s also true to say I haven’t been a fan. Because there are really many different characters called Superman: the original Golden Age character who didn’t fly and was much less of a Boy Scout than the character […]

The original Star Wars movie (the one where Han shot first) came out when I was 7 years old. It changed my life. I loved the movie like I loved few other things. I had Star Wars posters in my room. I reenacted scenes with my friends at school. I played with Star Wars action […]

After hearing Wil Wheaton mention how much he loved Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley, I decided to check out a comic I probably wouldn’t have given a second look to otherwise. And I’m very glad I did. I blazed through the first four volumes, Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, […]

David Petersen has created a nice piece of work in Mouse Guard. He’s written a solid, straightforward adventure drama and illustrated it with some of the most beautiful comics artwork I’ve ever seen. Mouse Guard is about a quasi-Medieval society of mice who live in mouse-made cities and towns, spread out across “the Territories.” Under […]

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In the mid-1990s, Alan Moore (yes, the guy who wrote Watchmen) took over writing a comic called Supreme and completely reworked it, turning it into something amazing and fun. His Supreme stories have been collected in two volumes, Supreme: The Story of the Year and Supreme: The Return.
Supreme was a ’90s version of Superman, […]

The movie Watchmen is out now, and I’m really excited to see it. The comic originally came out as a twelve-issue limited series when I was in high school, and I read every issue many, many times. I even studied it for a class in college. I highly, highly recommend Watchmen.
In some ways, Watchmen is […]

Scott McCloud, author and illustrator of Understanding Comics, made his name with his comic Zot!, which premiered in 1984. Written, illustrated and owned by McCloud (which was much less common then than it is now), Zot! began as a brightly-colored, quirky and light superhero comic. Zachary T. Paleozogt, also known as Zot, is a teenaged […]

I want to start my reviews and recommendations off with what I think is the most important book regarding comics ever published: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.
Although I remain a huge fan of superhero and adventure comics, I’ll be the first to nod my head and pump my fist when McCloud starts Understanding Comics off […]