I was surprised to see a new Supernatural Law collection. Frankly, the Batton Lash series had fallen off my radar when it went digital. Batton Lash put out a book, The Monsters Meet on Court Street, last year, but that was a reprint of issues from 2003 and 2004. The Werewolf of New York, in contrast, is a full-length color story new to print readers (although it was previously published in webcomic form). The storytelling, though, is the same as […]

I never read Kings in Disguise, the 1988 graphic novel about a Depression-era boy turned hobo in search of his father, an alcoholic who abandoned his family, although I knew it was much praised in its time. On the Ropes is the sequel, out 25 years later, but if my experience is anything to go by, you’ll get plenty from this story even without knowing the former. They’re both fine examples of literary graphic novels, long-form comics inspired by the […]