My new column at Comics Unlimited is now up. Click on the “Graphic Novels Worth Owning” banner to see my comments on the following books.

The Dreaming, Tokyopop OEL manga by Queenie Chan about two girls starting boarding school in the Australian Outback

Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks’ modern classic about “the other history of comics. The way it should have been.”

The Maze Agency, reprinting a wonderful mystery comic by Mike W. Barr and Adam Hughes

Enigma — “Recommended for fans of Grant Morrison and The Watchmen, this book deals with many of the same types of ideas-made-flesh-on-paper and thoughtful explorations of the symbolism and intellectual purpose of superheroes. Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo explore what it means to fall in love with superheroes, and the unexpected result is eye-opening. “