Digital Ash

In reviewing the most recent issue of Maple Key Comics, a quarterly art journal featuring short comics, one of the standouts was artist Iris Yan, with her autobiographical sketches in “Hotline,” about her...

 I don't usually like to read long-form comics on a screen, but I am a fan of certain online comics, or maybe cartoons is a better term, though I'm not sure of the difference. What I like, and/or...

RoboChuck #1 (Chris Callahan) This may be a strange way to review a digital comic, but I'm more fascinated by my reaction to RoboChuck #1 then to the comic itself, and it is my reaction to it that focuses...

The Dead #2 (James Maddox / Jen Hickman) This is the highest concept take on the afterlife that I can remember reading. Imagine life after death as a series of rooms in an enormous house. It's a...

Moth City: The Reservoir(Tim Gibson)Tim Gibson has been doing some amazing and inventive things with his Moth City series. He's been at the forefront of the digital possibilities of comics, as well as...

World War Mob #1(Vito Delsante / Giancarlo Caracuzzo)As if we need more proof that there's an almost infinite number of great comics floating out there that you've never heard of, here's World...

Nova Phase #1 and 2(Matthew Ritter / Adam Elbahtimy)On an Earth not too far in the future and probably just to the left of our own, young Veronica Darkwater dreams of getting off-planet. Despite growing up...

Blastosaurus: Welcome to Freak Out City Part One (Richard Fairgray / Terry Jones / Tara Black) Mutant Dinosaurs! Robots! Time Travel! Action! Gore! Science! Jokes! Annoying Kids! You get all this...

The Bunker #5 (Joshua Hale Fialkov / Joe Infurnari) Joshua Fialkov and Joe Infurnari's passion project The Bunker wraps up its run in digital form before it moves to print later this month from Oni...

Never As Bad As You Think: An Original Graphic Novel(Kathryn Immonen / Stuart Immonen)Never As Bad As You Think began life as an OuBaPo-style experiment on the Immonens' website, each page built...

  Apama: the Undiscovered Animal(Ted Sikora / Milo Miller / Benito Gallego)The Apama answers a question that's kept many a comics fan up at night: what if John Buscema drew a Flaming Carrot...

Moth City #6(Tim Gibson)I keep coming back to Tim Gibson's Moth City as there keeps being more to say about it, which is a testament to its conception as much as its execution. Issue six of this eight...

 Arrival(Thomas Kovach / Nishan Patel)We live in a world full of wonders. Many of the things that we take for granted would have been seen as magic only a few decades ago. And yet, despite all our...

Massive Awesome Vol. 1(Stephen Lindsay /Rolf Lejdegard / James Boulton)I enjoy reading comics that call into question the nature of human existence or that question our inability to connect with each other...

Moth City #5(Tim Gibson)It's been awhile since I last checked in on the goings-on in Tim Gibson's Moth City, and in the interim, all hell's broken loose.DAMN.What started out as political...