JUNK CULTURE
Writer/artist Ted McKeever can always be counted on for the unique and unexpected, things in ample evidence in this two-issue comic from the DC imprint Vertigo.
IN THE KINGDOM OF MESCAL
Formatted like a traditional kids’ story book, complete with imposing full-page illustrations, it’s a traditional mythology-based tale in many respects.
THE HORDE
Reading this thoroughly bizarre, spiritually infused graphic novel from Ukrainian writer/illustrator Igor Baranko, I couldn’t help but wonder if Alejandro Jodorowsky had a hand in its creation.
HELLBOUND HEARTS
With a stable of first-rate authors–Neil Gaiman, Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, Sarah Langan and Gary Braunbeck–you can count on a good read at the very least.
THE HEART OF THE BEAST
Vertigo’s higher-ups evidently thought a lot of THE HEART OF THE BEAST, and it is indeed a work of style and quality. I’m not sure, however, that it’s deserving of such an exalted presentation.
THE GREEN WOMAN
He (together with co-writer Michael Easton) takes to the form like a natural, spinning a fractured, visually oriented yarn that works extremely well in graphic form.
GOLEM100
It’s packaged as science fiction but is actually a hallucinatory horror fest with futuristic trappings. Some readers feel it’s a postmodern masterpiece, others a self-indulgent mess; I’ll have to side with the latter view, although there are mitigating elements.
GOD’S MAN
This makes GOD’S MAN one of the first-ever graphic novels, and one that nearly a century after its initial publication still holds up remarkably well.
FROM INSIDE
As a veritable epic of sustained surreality this graphic novel is fairly remarkable.
THE FIRES OF PELE
A graphic novel of sorts, THE FIRES OF PELE purports to be a lost journal kept by a young Mark Twain during his 1866 sojourn in Hawaii, a.k.a. the “Sandwich Islands,” where he confronted all manner of odd creatures