Comics Articles: September 2007

The much-celebrated, illustrated short story collection returns with a typically gorgeous and captivating collection of art and narrative artistry.

In I Killed Adolf Hitler, Jason attempts to suggest that major world events don't affect our lives so much as our day-to-day interactions and seemingly mundane decisions.

National-themed superheroes have it tough, but a working class hero is something to be.

Through his own misadventure, the hero ends up creating an adversary who can challenge him, and who perhaps knows him better than almost anybody else.

The romantic and sympathetic criss-cross pairing up of characters is a great method through which we can peer a little deeper into the relationships.

Now that it is over I hope the series will be scrutinized by people within the comic book industry to gain a better appreciation of just how much it contributed to the medium.

The creators are not holding back and will do what it takes to tell the story, even if that makes the reader feel uncomfortable.

The Plain Janes spins a story of outsider-dom with affecting charm and poignancy, thoughtfully confronting the emotional costs of terrorism without becoming a humorless polemic.