2022: A Look Back in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Look Back in Bedlam year end overview
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
I say VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS deserves a bit more attention than it’s thus far received, if only because it was one of the most calamitous flops of the 2010s
THE LONG TOMORROW AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
Overall this book ranks far from the top in the Moebius hierarchy, yet contains one absolutely indispensable portion: the Dan O’Bannon scripted title story
THE LEATHER NUN AND OTHER INCREDIBLY STRANGE COMICS
Odd and obscure (though not quite “incredibly strange”) comics
MAGIC MIRROR
A worthy, if frustratingly little known, addition to the underground comics scene
2021: A Look Back in Bedlam
Anyone doubting that we’re currently living in Bizarro World need only take a look at the entertainment field of 2021
NOVA GIRLS FUN HOUSE
A rare (and better forgotten) example of an American made photo illustrated comic
Funnybook Flashback: The Grant Morrison DOOM PATROL
Not his best work, but certainly among his most representative
Funnybook Flashback: FLINCH
It’s impossible not to be struck by the range of artwork and subject matter of this Vertigo horror comics anthology
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America