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Starlight: Mark Millar’s Love Letter to Buck Rogers
Starlight Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Goran Parlov Publisher: Image 2015 Rating: 17+ Duke McQueen was recently widowed after 38 years of marriage. Before he married his wife, he saved a distant world from a ruthless tyrant after being transported through… Read More ›
Black Magick: Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott Make some Magic
Black Magic tells the story of Rowan Black a police detective and powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest.
Fagin the Jew: Will Eisner Reinterprets Dickens
The villain in Dickens’s Oliver Twist, Fagin the Jew, is an offensive antisemitic stereotype. Will Eisner decided to reinterpret Dickens’s caricature and humanize Fagin in his own story.
Buddha: Osamu Tezuka’s Masterpiece
Between 1972 to 1983, Osamu Tezuka created the eight volume manga masterwork on Prince Siddhartha who became the Buddha.
March: John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement
March won of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2016. It has been compared to Art Spiegelman’s Maus because it shined “a light on the darkest corners of the history of the 20th Century.” It also won the Eisner Award for best Reality-Base Work.
Clean Room: Gail Simone’s Conspiracy Driven Body Horror Classic
Gail Simone created Clean Room to get under her readers’ skin. She succeeded. The Simone, Jon Davis-Hunt, Walter Geovani and Sanya Anwar series is a freaky mind-binding story blending horror, mystery, cults, demons, and science fiction.
Powers: The Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming Superhero Noir Classic
Powers was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming in 2000 for Image Comics. The comic series is a noir crime procedural superhero mashup. Bendis and Oeming create a surprisingly grounded story with strong characters and a distinctive and stunning art style.
