The relaunched Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic series continues to keep my interest by doing fresh, interesting things with characters that feel, sound, and look right. Season 10 is setting itself apart by once again mutating the traditional enemy vampires, but instead of making them oh-so-trendy zombies, now, they’re throwbacks. With the ability to transform into beasts — humanoid bats, wolves, insects, and so on — they’re shaking up our heroes and preventing them from being too jaded. They’re more […]

It’s always a pleasure to see Evan Dorkin drawing, with his bold lines and claustrophobically crowded panels. Reading The Eltingville Club again — which I think first appeared in Instant Piano #1 in 1994, then continued intermittently in the Dork series — feels like very uncomfortable time travel. The satire of obsessed, immature, selfish fanboys is savage. It’s the kind of work that can only be done by someone who knows the type and the field extraordinarily well. When this […]