Yiffing in Hell: Episode I – Secret Reunion in Carfax Lodge is a graphic novel by Mexican artist Geladaa. The slogan “A book you will know less about after putting it down than before picking it up” sets off some pretty major alarm bells, but Tim and Mulele forge ahead to investigate.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Based on the series of novels by Dan Abnett, Eisenhorn: Xenos is a one-shot comic book from TPub meant to lead into the new Eisenhorn video game. Tim and Mulele grab their swords and gird for a critique.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Somehow, Critiquing Comics is up to 100 episodes! Tim and Mulele mark this occasion by discussing a bunch of comics picked up at New York’s MoCCA Festival and Tokyo’s Kaigai Manga Festa.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Continue reading Critiquing Comics #100: Comics from Conventions!
If you’re into the idea of conspiracy theories (whether you actually believe in them or not), you may dig Scott Bufis and Matthew Salazar‘s Esoteric Dialogue. On the other hand, even if that’s not your thing, you gotta admire the work that goes into this comic. Tim and Mulele discuss issue 1 of the series.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Andres Salazar and Jose Luis Pescador’s Pariah, Missouri, set in the old west, presents some fantastic art and interesting characters. But is the story too formulaic? Tim and Mulele discuss.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Submitted for your approval: a web site that asks the question: What if The Twilight Zone was a series of one-page comics? Tim and Mulele discuss Observatory, by Laszlo Tamasfi and various artists.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
We’re back! Tim and Mulele sit down for some pizza and a football-related comic with an emotional gut punch: Adam Pasion’s “Wins and Losses”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
FLASHBACK! Once upon a time, nobody sent us their comics to critique. Then finally, in the fall of 2007, our call was heard! Listener Vincent Morris sent us his comic, Kid Intense. All three of us weighed in.
Originally published October 15, 2007
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
A man with a fatal illness decides to end it all before the illness does. He finds himself in an Alice-in-Wonderland-like scenario full of social commentary. Tim and Mulele critique Jonny Bloozit’s The Nowhere Man.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Once Upon a Time in Morningside, by Sean Michael Wilson and Hanna Strömberg, is the latest book from Big Ugly Robot Press. The book shows how “OK” places become “great” in retrospect, based on the things you remember happening there years before, and also how looking back on those things can teach you something new.
At MoCCA, Tim picked up A.T. Pratt‘s Papa Pratt’s Popup Popout Miggy Mouse Horror House Super Secret Special Surprise and Miggy Mouse’s Sweets and Treats, two books with a great approach to constructing a book (see below), but how is the experience of reading them?
Tim and Mulele discuss.
(Click the images to enlarge)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
