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Critiquing Comics #132: “A Light Before the Darkness”, “The Satsuma...
Tim and Mulele critique a couple of history-based comics: A Light Before the Darkness by Ken Mora and Cyrus Mescarcia tells the story of an artist named Michelangelo — but no, not that one. It’s about...
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Critiquing Comics #133: “The Old Man of the Mountain” and “On Syntaphore”
Old Man of the Mountain issue 1, by Tom Rapka and Ariez Hernandez, includes an execution-style murder and three teens getting brutally, graphically cut to pieces. And yet, somehow it feels like it’s...
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Critiquing Comics #134: “Fallen Ones” and “The Five of Us”
A werewolf. A female assassin. A grieving father. Varga Balint Bank and Vadas Mate’s Fallen Ones weaves their stories together in a well-thought-out way. The Five of Us: It All Starts Here, from Sean...
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Critiquing Comics #135: “Hyper Epics” and Mulele’s missing box
Hyperepics.com is a site showcasing a growing number of three-page comics, more or less of the “Amazing Stories” mold. In this episode we read many of them and talk about what we liked, and what we...
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Critiquing Comics #136: “Tales from the Interface”
Emmanuel Filteau’s surreal and interesting Tales from the Interface is worth a look — even if you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at. Tim and Mulele discuss. Deconstructing Comics site SUPPORT...
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Critiquing Comics #137: “Eric”
A music star on a downward spiral is experiencing strange visions. It seems that everything he knows is wrong. What’s real and what’s not? Tim and Mulele discuss Eric by Tom Manning. ALSO: 25:25: Tim...
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Critiquing Comics #138: “Hajime”
Hajime is an anthology (the first in a proposed series from new group Tokyo Collective, or ToCo) presenting four-page stories from seven artists about their first impressions upon arriving in Tokyo....
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Critiquing Comics #139: “Tabi” and “The Quick and the Dad”
Tim and Mulele are back with two critiques: Oscar‘s recent book Tabi (“Journey”) is another silent comic, this time featuring a sword-wielding rabbit. Is that sword to be used for good, or for ill?...
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Critiquing Comics #140: “The Incapable Trump” and “Empress”
Two more comics submitted by their creators for Tim and Mulele’s comments: The Incapable Trump, by Omar Mirza and Alex Genaro gives us a Trump who changes into the Incredible Hulk! it looks great, but...
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Critiquing Comics #141: “Henshin Man” and “Guano Guy”
This time Tim and Mulele critique two superhero comics submitted by their creators: Henshin Man, by Cameron Kerkau, Ben Matsuya, and CJ Standal is just getting started, but it introduces one Japanese...
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Critiquing Comics #142: “The World of Tomorrow” and “Possession”
In this episode, Tim and Mulele tackle these comics, submitted by their creators: Craig Barstow is playing the lead in a TV show about space exploration. He faces accusations of being a drunk, and...
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Critiquing Comics #143: “Radio Silence” and “1000 Nightmares”
In this episode, Tim and Mulele discuss these comics, submitted by their creators: The members of a rock band in the UK cope with interpersonal issues and the problems of fame in Vanessa Stefaniuk’s...
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Critiquing Comics #144: Chad in Amsterdam
Chad Bilyeu sent us his autobio comic Chad in Amsterdam. As fellow expat Americans, how could we say no? And it turns out to be quite good! Tim and Mulele discuss. Then, Tim explains why his why he...
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Critiquing Comics #145: “Lords of the Cosmos” and “North Bend”
Lords of the Cosmos, by Dennis Fallon, Jason Lenox, and Jason Palmatier, presents us with a lot of standard-issue baddies who are out to destroy the peaceful planet of Aiden. But what’s the bad guys’...
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Critiquing Comics 146: “Alex” and “Undetermined”
Alex is a Webtoons comic about the life of Alexander the Great, by Dave Malley. How much were we able to learn about the comic’s subject? Andrew Perry and Chris Holmes’ Undetermined centers on a...
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Critiquing Comics #147: Tokyo comics shows 2018, pt 1
In this episode, Tim and Mulele discuss some comics they picked up at the recent comics events in Tokyo, Comic Art Tokyo and Kaigai Manga Festa. 2:05Cicada by Shaun Tan7:49A Ticket to Nowhere by...
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Critiquing Comics #148: Tokyo comics shows 2018, pt 2
Tim and Mulele discuss more of the comics they picked up at the recent comics events in Tokyo, Comic Art Tokyo and Kaigai Manga Festa. 2:49The Pig Sleep by Cory McCallum and Matthew Daley16:26Alethia...
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Critiquing Comics #149: “Gorky and Izzy’s Trip to Mexico”
Gorky and Izzy are partners in crime – literally – but Gorky’s been dumped by his girlfriend and he’s in a bad way. Izzy is struggling to deal with him in a way befitting a best friend. Tim and Mulele...
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Critiquing Comics 150: “These Savage Shores”
Last time, we started to review issue 2 of These Savage Shores by Ram V., Sumit Kumar, Vittorio Astone, and Aditya Bidikar, but we decided to wait and get ahold of issue 1. Now we have the first three...
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Critiquing Comics #151: “Days of Dark Fire” and “Rage in the Shadows”
Days of Dark Fire (by Giovanni Smith and Mike Gaughran) is a somewhat lighthearted sword-and sorcery tale, about a screwup prince who’s trying to save his kingdom. Rage in the Shadows (by Ralph...
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