Comics Worth Reading

There are so few mystery comics out there — not thrillers, not blood-soaked serial killer books — and one of the all-time best is The Maze Agency. I gave a brief history of the series back in...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/04/09/i-love-the-maze-agency-but-i-cant-support-its-return/

Seeing a note about Time Breakers having one day left in its crowdfunding campaign got me wondering — just how many of the Helix titles have been reborn? Helix was a DC imprint, back when they ...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/04/03/the-helix-titles-that-live-on-time-breakers-crowdfunding/

I don’t read historical manga much any more, as I find not understanding the references off-putting. I gave this a try because a smart editor mentioned to me that it was by Ken Saito, author of...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/31/tales-of-the-tendo-family-volume-1/

Magnetic Press not only puts out graphic novels, they also release art books, and one of them was right up my alley. I’ve mentioned their edition of A Study in Scarlet before, when it was on sa...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/26/vincent-mallie-wins-doylean-honor-for-a-study-in-scarlet/

Out next week, on April 3, is Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #1, the first issue of a five-part miniseries. Per the publisher, Dark Horse, in this story, Usagi and Yukichi rescue a merchant being attack...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/26/exclusive-preview-usagi-yojimbo-the-crow-1/

The easiest way to get me to read something new these days is to tell me how much you were influenced by Sherlock Holmes. (This should not surprise my readers.) I found Sheridan Bell and the Vani...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/24/sheridan-bell-and-the-vanishing-beast/

The best-known Sherlock Holmes to many folks these days was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC series. It ran 2010-2017 and consisted of 13 episodes (including the historical special The A...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/24/sherlock-returns-to-major-us-streaming-service/

I found the author’s previous Sherlockian work, My Dear Watson, a chore to get through, but this followup took a different approach that I much preferred. In that earlier book by L.A. Fields, t...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/24/mrs-watson-untold-stories/

I absolutely love the Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Adventures. They’re comics *and* choose-your-own-path mysteries *and* game books (with a score based on whether you solve the case). So I was...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/24/two-new-sherlock-holmes-game-books-coming/

Isn’t that a lovely seasonal cover from when this came out last year? Too bad there is no Halloween party in the book — the costumes are terrific for their personalities. It has taken me so l...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/09/what-did-you-eat-yesterday-volume-20/

It’s been almost twenty years since Sophie Campbell launched Wet Moon, a Southern Gothic graphic novel series about girls in art school that’s like nothing else out there. To celebrate that a...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/05/oni-releasing-wet-moon-omnibus-for-series-anniversary/

What a brilliant idea! Not only are the dishes in Karen Pierce’s Recipes for Murder: 66 Dishes That Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie inspired by the great writer’s novels, they’re...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/03/recipes-for-murder-66-dishes-that-celebrate-the-mysteries-of-agatha-christie/

Just when I was getting a little bored with “everyday life with a cat” stories — which is why I reviewed volume 1 and volume 2 but not volume 3 — the author, Wataru Nadatani, shakes thing...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/03/03/catgamer-volume-4/

Billi 99 by Sarah Byam and Tim Sale was originally published by Dark Horse back in the early days of the 2000s, over 20 years ago. It’s an unusual take on a superhero story — I liked it. (And...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/02/26/billi-99-returns-in-color/

Yellow Cab is a fascinating look at New York City from the perspective of a filmmaker. It’s adapted by Chabouté from a book by Benoit Cohen and translated from the French by Edward Gauvin. Alm...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/02/11/yellow-cab/

Kate Leth’s Mall Goth is a charming period piece that covers universal experiences about being a teen, with more optimism than I expected. That’s welcome. It’s the early 2000s. Liv has just...

https://comicsworthreading.com/2024/02/11/mall-goth/