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WE3Grant Morrison and Frank QuitelyDC/VertigoGrant Morrison has written some of the most challenging mainstream comics since he hit the scene in the late 1980s with Animal Man. While WE3 is no less challenging, it may be his most sentimental. Quitely’s fine line-art has enhanced many a Morrison script (New X-Men, JLA: Earth 2, ALL-Star Superman). […]

Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the WorldSethDrawn & QuarterlyWimbledon Green takes what should have been a throwaway gag and turns it into a comic-strip mockumentary. It is a credit to Seth’s (Clyde Fans, It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken) skill as a cartoonist that this works so well. Told as […]

Ice HavenDaniel ClowesPantheonAn experiment in format, Daniel Clowes’ (Ghost World, Eightball) Ice Haven is a collection of short strips done in the styles of familiar comic strips from the 20th century. Each one tells a story about the inhabitants of the town of Ice Haven. Framed by the story of a child’s kidnapping, the larger […]

Project: SuperiorVarious ArtistsAdHouse BooksThey say that inside every indie comic artist there is a superhero fan-boy waiting to get out. AdHouse’s latest comic anthology gives those inner fan-boys an outlet. Ranging from touching tribute to absurdist parody, today’s hottest alternative superstars, such as Bryan Lee O’Malley, Dean Haspiel, Scott Morse, Tara McPherson and Brian Wood, […]

Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldBryan Lee O’MalleyOni PressWith Scott Pilgrim, O’Malley has taken all the fun things about growing up after 1980 and combined them in his series of original graphic novels. There’s videogame action with a rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack, characters you can’t help but love, and pop culture references […]

Teenagers from MarsRick Spears and Rob GGigantic Graphic NovelsThe independent comic series and cult favourite that launched the careers of Rick Spears and Rob G is collected in one volume. Set in the uptight suburban town of Mars, amateur comic artist Macon finds himself fighting for his freedom and his art alongside his punk girlfriend […]

The Goon: Fancy Pants EditionEric PowellDark Horse ComicsEric Powell’s beautifully crafted horror-comedy stories about a thug named Goon get the treatment they deserve in this Fancy Pants hardcover edition. The Goon is not your everyday thug: Not only does he have to worry about collecting for his protection racket, he’s also the first line of […]

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of ZionWill EisnerWW Norton and CompanyFinished a month before his death earlier this year, comics legend Will Eisner’s heavily researched story about the origins of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fitting final work for the man who led the way […]

The Push Man and other storiesYoshihiro TatsumiDrawn & QuarterlyFirst published in Japan nearly 40 years ago, the short stories in The Push Man are Tatsumi’s examinations of the dark, repressed natures of modern man. Disturbing yet very beautiful, these vignettes of late 1960s Japan have more in common with the modern alternative comics of Daniel […]

The Forty NinersAlan Moore and Gene HaAmerica’s Best ComicsThe long-awaited prequel to Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell), Gene Ha and Zander Cannon’s hit superhero-cop drama Top Ten. From the perspective of new arrival Jetlad (Top Ten’s Captain Traynor), we see the formative years of Neopolis, the city inhabited entirely by super-powered beings. Ha handled the […]