It's crazy to read Grant Morrison nailing the tech billionaire rhetoric and jargon so early in its evolution. Elon Musk would absolutely harvest mutant organs to implant into himself all the while spouting transphobic insanity if he was in an X-Men comic

This is my favorite panel so far from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social / New York Review of Comics’s wonderful and long overdue Hothead Paisan collection which everyone should be reading right now!
CHICKEN STOP VOGUEING!

Ricardo Federici is another guy that really stands out, his style paired with Ram V's story on New Gods feels like the @jasonaaronwood.bsky.social @esadribicart.bsky.social @deanwhitecolor.bsky.social and Ive Svorcina teamup on Thor. There's a scale to both series that begins to boggle the mind.

Other artists who are crazy good in this series(each issue features a new artist along with Cagle) are @andrewmaclean.bsky.social (the Maclean issue made me want to cry), freaking LIGHTRAY, MAN!

The main Cagle art is so dynamic and pleasing, with these really flowing lines that make a great balance of beauty but also the impact and horror of the violence on the page, which gels super well with the themes of the run.

Really crazy little piece of trivia i learned as a comics retailer today while attempting to price a bunch of erotica, a prolific erotica illustrator by the name of Enrique Villagran was also an artist on a bunch of Punisher Comics, and Robin comics!

Bad quality scan, but this is from Assorted Crisis Events, not Absolute Martian, and even through the pixellation you should be able to tell just how excellent the lettering is. People talk a lot of justified shit about the coloring at Marvel and DC , but we're also missing voice driven lettering!

Just look at this! There's so much going on here!

Camp is like one of those great film directors to whom incredible actors, cinematographers, and writers flock. Otsman-Elhaou is letting both Assorted, and Absolute Martian, and both series have some of the best lettering hitting shelves right now. This is a piece from Absolute Martian...

all of which you get in a lot of queer narratives. There's sex, there's grief, there's anger, and cringing embarrassment, but the book really serves you something that feels real and grounded while also incredibly hard to put down.

identical framework. Cannon also felt a lot easier to read emotionally for me, since I found myself putting it down less frequently, and the breaks I was taking were because of a kind of second-hand embarrassment watching these characters behave so badly.

I am once again taking to this app to scream the praises of another Lee Lai x @fantagraphics.bsky.social book, this time, her second novel "Cannon," which shows off Lee's incredible character writing. Stone Fruit's character work was obviously beautiful, but the real strength of that work was formal

Okay so I started reading DC's Dark Knights Metal in lieu of finishing up some indie reviews for TCJ(sorry Sally). I've been so stressed with moving and everything I decided I needed some good mindless fun, and oh nelly, it is immediately that! Page three of issue 1

In other "stuff I'm reading right now," I just finished the first trade of @peachmomoko.bsky.social Ultimate X-Men. I've been enjoying a lot of the new Ultimate line, but Peach's is definitely the most original of them all(the rest are just really well-written capes comics).

Comics offer cartoonists the ability to play with the body in relation to the mind and the self, and Lee's characters exist as free monsters when running through the woods like children, and realistic understated realism when experiencing the difficulties of queerness in the adult world.

I sat down today and read this incredible book from Lee Lai and @fantagraphics.bsky.social occasionally I read a book that depicts the deep difficulties of queerness in such an unflinching manner that I find myself having to put it down ever few minutes and take a deep breath.