I have committed
the not-highly-esteemed deed
that was preserved
in the place of no honor
and which
is in a particular location
increasing toward
the center
forgive me
nothing valued is here
this place is best shunned
and left uninhabited
- he/him
- linktr.ee/DialHForHagai
Comics writer and critic. Street cat photographer. President of the Great Clown Pagliacci fan club. Enjoyer of posts and content. #JewishPope2023
ALIENS: LABYRINTH is a story whose on-paper beats would be easy to phone in except the creative team just absolutely nail the requisite tone of menace and manipulation it needs. A really tight, uncomfortable, gorgeous piece of work.
I read CHOPPER: SONG OF THE SURFER this morning, and it’s a tremendous bit of comics. Wagner’s grasp of that struggle of the immensity of emotion against absolute bleakness is on top form, with maybe the best art I’ve ever seen from MacNeil.
A.C. Esguerra’s EIGHTY DAYS is a wonder of a comic. It engages itself with a striking confidence and a tremendous emotional grasp, with absolutely gorgeous cartooning. A book that brims with the vitality of the love it tries—and very much succeeds—to evoke. Big fan of this one.