We pick up another Young Animal book for our Best of 2017 series by reading "Doom Patrol: Brick by Brick" by Gerard Way. In this unraveling story, young paramedic Casey Brinke discovers her origin story while assembling the Doom Patrol once more.

We pick up "The Best We Could Do" by artist-author Thi Bui to continue our Best of 2017 series. This book chronicles the journey of Bui's family and their immigration from Vietnam to the US. We talk about the incredible richness of this story in how it...

Our Best of 2017 series gets weird this week as we read "Shade, The Changing Girl: Earth Girl Made Easy" by Cecil Castellucci. In this Young Animal imprint, Meta-native Loma Shade uses the madness coat to possess a braindead teenage girl's body in an a...

Our "Best of 2017" series kicks off with what just might be the unanimous best comic of the year, "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters" by Emil Ferris. This comic, written from the point of view of a small horror-loving girl in 60's Chicago,

We pick up another new character this week as we read "Silk: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon" by Robbie Thompson. This Spider-verse event follow-up goes in-depth on Cindy Moon's life after being rescued from her underground bunker.

This week we pick up Ron Marz's "Voodoo: What Lies Beneath." One of the first wave of New 52 launch titles, this book was supposed to herald a new character story into the DC Universe. Instead, we got an alien stripper in a story that keeps falling fla...

We're back after our long winter break to give you an episode on "Fathom, Vol. 1" by Michael Turner to kick off our series on comics with new superheroes. In Fathom, a young woman named Aspen gains superpowers and becomes embroiled in a war between tho...

We wrap up our little sci-fi series by reading "Judge Dredd: America" by John Wagner. In the dystopian future, justice is absolute and morality gets more than a little warped. We talk about the strong anti-fascist themes in British comics from this era...

We pick up a classic sci-fi series by reading "The City of Shifting Waters" by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres, the first volume of Valerian and Laureline. In this time-travel comic, spacio-temporal agents Valerian and Laureline use one gangst...

We're back with a random sci-fi series that we're kicking off with "Star Wars: Tag & Bink Were Here" by Kevin Rubio. This parody takes the "background character" schtick to the extreme by inserting two bumbling buddies into the shadows of almost every ...