Comics Worth Reading

Young Men in Love is an excellent proof that gay romance fits into any possible genre. The collection of short stories in this comic anthology range the gamut of settings and plots: pirates, a gh...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/10/30/young-men-in-love/

Hono Natsuna’s Pupposites Attract volume 2 continues to be cute. (I reviewed volume 1 previously.) The new character this volume intrigues me. Chako dresses very hip and modern, but her job is ...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/10/13/pupposites-attract-volume-2/

Comics Mike Sterling loves Atari Force. So do I. He says: Fun sci-fi adventure expertly illustrated by José Luis García-López at the peak of his form, with the back half drawn by the also exce...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/10/07/headlines-early-october-2024/

Emma Hunsinger’s How It All Ends hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, perhaps because of the title. That’s a shame, because it’s a wonderful book, an affecting, informative portrait o...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/10/05/how-it-all-ends/

I should have enjoyed The Troublesome Guest of Sotomura Detective Agency by Sakae Kusuma more than I did. There’s a grumpy detective with an “only one bed”-type pairing, but the book fell f...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/10/04/the-troublesome-guest-of-sotomura-detective-agency/

Recent news stories in comics, media, and general life that caught my eye.

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/30/headlines-end-of-september-2024/

It’s been thirty years since Friends debuted, and Warner is celebrating by bringing out another version of the Friends: Complete Series box set, this time in 4K Ultra HD. (I was sent a copy for...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/28/friends-the-complete-series-in-4k/

Elephants: Living Large is another excellent entry in the Science Comics series. That’s not surprising, as writer Jason Viola has previously written Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/26/science-comics-elephants-living-large/

I’m not at all surprised Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff is a European import (translated by Jenna Allen). It pretty much has to be, given the subject matter: a woman as famous fo...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/15/anais-nin-a-sea-of-lies/

I am a huge fan of Fred Van Lente’s history comics. He’s written Action Presidents!, Action Philosophers, and my favorite, The Comic Book History of Comics. His latest book has just finished ...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/08/gamemasters-the-comic-book-history-of-roleplaying-games-still-available-for-preorder/

Michael Eury is retiring. To celebrate his long run with TwoMorrows publications, the publisher is holding a retirement sale. All in-stock print copies of his magazines and books are half off unt...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/08/michael-eury-retirement-sale/

I should preface this by saying I do not consider myself a Swiftie (a Taylor Swift fan). I only know the songs that have become hits. But a dear friend of mine is a fan, and so I thought I’d ch...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/08/shake-it-up-cocktails-inspired-by-the-music-of-taylor-swift/

Pupposites Attract by Hono Natsuna bills itself as “a fluffy, feel-good romance”, which it is, and that’s just the kind of light-hearted read I wanted. The “fluffy” is relevant in more ...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/07/pupposites-attract-volume-1/

When I was doing some fill-in writing for ICv2 last month, I wrote about the upcoming release of THE EXILED, a collection of a miniseries put out by Massive featuring the input and likeness of We...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/07/wesley-snipes-world-records/

I’m a big fan of physical media. Streaming services are convenient for pulling up on any screen — tablet, computer, TV… assuming the internet’s working sufficiently — but discs don’t ...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/06/ted-lasso-the-richmond-way/

It’s been a while since Adachi has actually been a wizard. He and his boyfriend Kurosawa have settled into a relationship, and as he’s no longer a virgin… Anyway, as you can gather from the...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/09/02/cherry-magic-thirty-years-of-virginity-can-make-you-a-wizard-volumes-10-and-11/