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| May 17, 2026 | » | Everything Dead & Dying (2025)
4 min; updated May 17, 2026
Everything Dead & Dying.
Tate Brombal; Jacob Phillips.
CharacterizationJACK. Once upon a time, in a quiet, little town, there lived a farmer, and
he was a good farmer. It was all he knew, after all. And the farmer worked
his land from sunrise to sunset every single day. Tillin’ his fields,
feedin’ his chickens, and collectin’ his harvest right on time. He was a
good farmer, after all. |
| Dec 11, 2021 | » | Saga
4 min; updated Jan 17, 2026
Themes (Mostly War)Planet Landfall (Alana’s) and Wreath (its moon, Marko’s) have been in conflict as long as anyone can remember. Destroying either would send the other out of orbit, so they make peace at home, but outsource the combat to foreign lands. Most locals didn’t really think about the battles being waged in their names in distant lands. #societal-apathy ... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | » | The Wicked + The Divine
4 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The Recurrence. Every 90 years, 12 gods reincarnate on earth for 2 years. In 2014, the gods are living as pop icons. Some are high culture, e.g. Lucifer, and others are underground, e.g. The Morrígan. ... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | » | The Department of Truth
2 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The Department of Truth | Image Comics.
James Tynion IV; Martin Simmonds.
Expecting a modern take on 1984, which I didn’t finish because I lost interest. Plot Points[Lee Harvey Oswald] The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief. What happened in Antartica was that a group of men managed to make enough people believe in the truth of a flat earth for it to manifest in reality… Retroactively, the earth would always have been flat. And the people would rightly rise up in fury having been lied to by everyone for decades. #tulpa ... |
| Nov 20, 2022 | » | Bitter Root
7 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
Bitter Root.
David F. Walker; Chuck Brown; Sanford Greene.
Snapshots[Dr. Sylvester] I am not the devil. It was the devil that made me what I have become, and the devil I am here to destroy. Look around you, Enoch Sangerye. You’ve seen this before – cities and towns burned to the ground. It always starts with their hate and fear. And it always ends with our deaths. You saw the hell unleashed in the summer of 1919. ... |
| Dec 11, 2022 | » | Outcast
7 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
Outcast.
Robert Kirkman; Paul Azaceta.
Snapshots[Rev. Anderson] I know… How completely I failed you. You brought me face to face with the Devil himself… And I didn’t have the strength to confront him. Am I no longer worthy to do your work? Is that why I have no power over these demons? Have I offended you? ... |
| May 27, 2023 | » | East of West (2013 - 2019)
6 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
East of West.
Jonathan Hickman; Nick Dragotta.
SnapshotsThe things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite
us. Soon, the Union found itself fighting a war on two fronts – righteousness and
tyranny, and the resulting quagmire suited their hypocrisy. Conflict drug on
until finally reaching a protracted lull a decade later. A war that not war,
lasting twenty more years… until the fire in the sky. There are those that say
the comet should have struck some other land. That God, like with Joshua and the
Amorites, somehow held the world up, kept it from spinning, just so he could
deliver judgment. Divine intervention or not, that event marked the end of the
hostilities, the remarking of territory, and the formation of what would become
the Seven Nations of America. The Accords were signed at Armistice – the
epicenter of the event – on November 9, 1908. It was significant, historic, and
the third most important thing to happen that day. As in Atlanta, the Prophet
Longstreet penned the Second Book of Revelation. And in Cheowee, Red Cloud
shared a waking vision with his council of elders. The upon completion, and by
all accounts at exactly the same time, both men collapsed and died. |
| Jan 29, 2024 | » | American Jesus
5 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The American Jesus Trilogy.
Mark Millar; Peter Gross.
SnapshotsIt’s a coming of age story interrogating how a hero is formed, how a villain is created, and how similar the lives of the righteous and wretched can be, how fine the fault lines of good and evil are. ... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | » | The Mighty
3 min; updated Jul 29, 2023
The Mighty.
Peter J. Tomasi; Champagne Keith; Chris Samnee; Peter Snejbjerg.
ReviewSimilar back story to Invincible , also published by Image Comics. Like Omni-Man, Alpha One comes from a distant civilization of advanced humans. However, his ambitions weren’t shared by his people, and crashed into Earth by mistake while being transported to a prison in Venus. ... |
Volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 9 have been nominated for the the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. A 6/9 nomination rate implies that the comic is pretty good!