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#878 Three fun graphic novels

#671 Derf’s “Kent State”

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

#877 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #7-8: The Truth about Vibranium

#876 Marjane Satrapi remembered

#471 “Crumb” and “Punk Rock Jesus”

#415 Crumb’s Confounding “Genesis”

#384 R. Crumb’s “Weirdo” Years Revisited

Critiquing Comics #249: “Westron”

#875 Swamp Thing in Spaaaaace

#874 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #5-6: The City of Samurai

#873 Adam Tierney: Godzilla comes to Verona

#872 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 2: The argument in favor of Stan Lee editing

#546 “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye”

#871 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #3-4: A Time Machine, a Sweet Ride, and a Samurai

Critiquing Comics #248: “The Blossoming City” pt 1 and “Loon News: The Comic Strip!”

#617 Swamp Thing meets the monsters

#319 “The Maxx” (RIP Sam Kieth)

#870 Steranko’s “Nick Fury,” pt 1: Spy or superhero?

#325 Alan Moore’s “Swamp Thing”

#869 Jack Kirby’s Black Panther #1-2: A Ribbit-ing Time Travel Story

#868 “The Pass”: Are you living the dream, or is the dream killing you?

#867 “Goodnight, Punpun”

#866 Fantastic Four 53: Black Panther meets Klaw

#865 Harold Buchholz interview: Kids love comics!

#864 Black Panther Debuts

#863 Jimmy Gownley interview

#627 Walt Simonson’s “Thor”

Critiquing Comics #247: “Lovers Quarrel” and “Digital Bardos” #2

#862 “Poor Helpless Comics”

#861 Jack Kirby’s Captain America: Cap vs Magneto!

#372 “Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary”: Painful Personal Memoir as Wacky Comedy!

#860 Chris Ryall on “Daredevil: Born Again”

#859 Jason Shiga: Choosing his own path

#858 Celebrating 20 years by reviewing a 20-year-old film (“Superman Returns”)

#857 Carol Tyler’s “The Ephemerata”: Making sense of the worst of all possible stretches

#856 Jim Keefe interview

#855 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America” 214 & Annual 3: Cap vs the Space Vampire!

#410 Marvel Comics: Telling the Untold Story

Critiquing Comics #246: “Roy Beckwith and the Cursed Continent” and “A French Expat in the U.K.”

#854 “Superman” (2025): Its commentary on other supermen

#853 The strange history of “Robotech”

#369 “Krazy Kat”: Show me the bricks

#852 Dan Schkade and “Flash Gordon”

#358 Carl Barks, “The Good Duck Artist”

#851 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 212-213: “I love you, baby!”

Critiquing Comics #245: “Joe Mallard” 4-6 and “Dream Machine”

#850 “Fantastic Four: First Steps” (2025): Did it live up to the hype?

#849 “Almost Sunset”: Wahab Algarmi on growing up Muslim in America

#848 “More Weight”: Ben Wickey talks Salem witch trials

“Spider-Man 3” (2007)

“Spider-Man 2” (2004)

“Spider-Man” (2002)

Critiquing Comics #244: “God Summoner” and “The Keluarga Cable Ship Company”

#780 Jim Shooter interview

#847 “Angel and the Ape”: Forgotten, but not gone

#846 Pow! Crack! Breaking down comics sound effects

#845 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 209-211: An Uncle Sam Person

#844 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 2: WTF does Doom want??

#843 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fant4stic” (2015) pt 1

#842 Struggling with Kit Anderson’s “Second Shift”

#633 “Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun”

#841 Ken Krimstein on Einstein, Kafka, and comics in general

#840 Joe Sacco’s books on the Middle East

#385 The Legacy of “Starman”

Critiquing Comics #243: “Fables of Fear” and “Black Plastic”

#559 Drawn & Quarterly and Canadian comics

#210 Jillian Tamaki interview(s)

#839 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Rise of the Silver Surfer” (2007)

#838 The Fantastic Four on Film: The Galactus Trilogy

#837 Jack Kirby’s Captain America 206-208: The Tiger, the Swine…and the Fish

#836 “Clyde Fans” reviewed by two fans

#835 “Raised by Ghosts”: A time capsule, but relevant to anyone who’s been a teen

#834 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” vs a bodybuilding corpse

#833 Jack Kirby’s “Cap and Falcon” 201-203: Who are “the Night People”?

#832 Michael Cohen: Comics price guides, “Peanuts”, and more

#831 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 2: What does Doom want?!

Critiquing Comics #242 “The Star Tide Shores” vol. 1

#830 The Fantastic Four on Film: “Fantastic Four” (2005) pt 1: “I am hot, and I’m not afraid to cry”

#829 Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles”

#828 Japan’s mythical “oni” in manga

#827 “Cross Game” Omnibus 2: Subtle Shifts

#826 Hugh D’Andrade’s “The Murder Next Door”: Your trauma is your trauma

#825 Brad Guigar talks promoting your webcomic, even (especially?) if it’s NSFW!

“Spider-Man: Far from Home” (2019)

#824 “Eternals” (2021): Where it went wrong (and right!)

Critiquing Comics #241: “The Shapes” #4: El Puro

#823 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #17-19: Lots o’ Ikaris (or Ikarus?)

#822 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994) (part two) Why wasn’t the film released?

#821 The Fantastic Four on Film: “The Fantastic Four” (1994), a Roger Corman production (part one)

#820 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals,” #14-16: The Coming of…. The Editor!

#819 We catch up with “The Re-up” and “Amazing Tales”

#818 Requiems: “Ghost Band” and “Grimm’s Assistant”

“Avengers: Endgame” (2019)

#437 “Real” is a slam dunk

Critiquing Comics #240: “The Night Brigade” and “Joe Mallard”

#817 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, 1977 Annual + #13: Fun “Eternals” stories with few Eternals

#816 Chester Brown interview: “Paying for It,” the movie

#593 “Reading ‘Nancy’”, plus “Cat and Mouse”!

Critiquing Comics #239: “Let’s Go, Coco” and “Digital Bardos”

#338 Everything’s Archie!

#815 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals”, #9-12: Judging books by their covers

#134 “The R. Crumb Handbook”

Critiquing Comics #238: “Jane Jet” and “The Fog Within”

#591 “Promethea”: A mind-bending, life-changing comic

#296 “Little Orphan Annie”

“Captain Marvel” (2019)

#598 Dylan Horrocks looks back at “Hicksville”

#814 Jack Kirby’s “Eternals” 5-8: As wacky as they wanna be

#813 “Cross Game”: Baseball manga that’s not about baseball (much)

#812 Jonah Lobe on character anatomy and “Quiet: Level One”

#811 “Blood of the Virgin”: About much more than filmmaking

#810 “Batman/Dylan Dog”: Dark Knight meets Nightmare Investigator