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I do really like superhero stories where the superheros don't fight, and instead go through the odder parts of being a superhero: dealing with paparazzi and wondering who you can trust to date and be intimate with, dealing with the likelihood that your family will read about your death in the newspaper, realizing that the guy you hate and have been fighting against thinks that he's the hero and you're the villain. This is Astro City in a nutshell, and it's great.

I mean this is basically an Archie comic with demons but sometimes that’s what you need.

I thought this would be something a little darker and x rated than it turned out to be. It’s very clearly a way to draw fantasy and talk about imagination, but frankly this was done in promethea and in Scott McLeod’s stuff. I wanted to see what cartoonists don’t talk about: the power and idealization of comics and how much makes it in there that they don’t admit, and the different viewpoints there. I feel like simply pointing to a harem or hentai and saying “oh noes” isn’t even scratching the surface.


I felt like Alice and Miki were far more interesting than Sam here, because they are literally living in male fantasy and have to subvert or reject their assigned roles and we never really see a from scratch point of view of what they want.

Red vs blue. They write letters to each other. The concept is sweet but I found it a bit florid.

Excellent “Magic is real and we are all fucked” progression.

Not much plot, but decent art.