Flash might be my least favourite superhero. I’ve never read a good Flash comic and the character itself is so dated. He runs fast and can travel through time/across dimensions. So what - so do numerous other (better) characters. He looks like a parody of a superhero. His rogues gallery stinks: a psychic gorilla, a guy with an ice gun and a guy with a boomerang? THEY seem like parodies of supervillains! Flash has always been bad and yet DC keeps trying to make people care about this antiquated, feeble superhero.
Miss Ruki was a comic strip in the Japanese women’s magazine Hanako which was serialised from 1988 to 1992 - this edition collects all of the strips that were published. It’s about a young woman called Ruki and her best friend Ecchan as they go about their lives as single women in Tokyo. It’s very… “Japanese”. In the popular media representation of Japanese people sense. As calm, quiet, sensible people who go about their lives calmly, quietly and sensibly, but with the occasional quirk to their days.
Goblin Girl is Moa Romanova’s debut memoir comic about a time in her young life when she found herself involved with a famous TV person, several decades older than her, via Tinder, and struggling with her mental health (depression, anxiety).
Have you ever wanted to read the most elementary first year film course communicated to you by a man with no personality - in comics form, drawn in a bland, lifeless style? Then Filmish is for you!
A man is involved in a car accident and hospitalised. While recovering, he muses on god, religion, the meaning of life, and his relationships, with a variety of (mostly doctor) characters. Also the Holocaust is mentioned.
An alien ship arrives above the small town of Evergreen, covering it in a green energy dome, stopping anyone from going in or out of the town. A god-like alien calling itself The Abin Sur descends to pass judgment upon the townspeople - which include friends Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Jo Mullein, and Guy Gardner. What does judgment entail? To be Without Fear.
Helen is a designer specialising in high-end event invites (weddings, galas, etc.). Business was obliterated during COVID, but, post-pandemic and with the world opening back up, events are starting to happen once more and Helen’s back to work. Her cheeky older uncle Peter, recently returned back to ‘murica from Blighty, suggests she print off an extra invite and go to these events herself - with him as her plus one, naturally. Hesitant at first, Helen goes along with it - what mischief awaits these two and will she get caught by her boss?
Some thugs are driving to an apartment building to get something from someone for some reason. But what they don’t know is that the building is fulla weirdos - what’s gonna happen? Oh, right: the title.
A manga artist completes his years-long series - and then finds himself lost as he listlessly tries to decide upon a new project. Meanwhile his marriage is failing and his melancholy feelings begin to build, making it harder for him to move forward and create again. What happens when you put all of your time and effort into a creative field, at the expense of all else - and find that success is hollow?
Istvan is a teenage boy living in a small Hungarian town when he inadvertently gets into a relationship with a married woman in her 40s. A violent incident changes the course of his life and from there he joins the army and is deployed in Iraq, before finding himself in Britain working as a bouncer, and from there life takes him to still further completely unexpected places.
Buff Soul is a memoir by Swedish cartoonist Moa Romanova when she joined her two pals Asa and Lina, who’re in a band called Shitkid, in America on tour. They’re young and feel invincible, and do the cliched things bands do on tour - drinking, drugging, sleeping around - all while the spectre of death hangs over them in the form of absent friends - and possibly soon-to-be-absent friends…?
Do Admit! (a favourite saying of the sisters) is cartoonist Mimi Pond’s comics biography of the Mitford sisters - Nancy, Unity, Pam, Jessica, Diana, and Deborah - as well as a mini-autobiography of her own, at least in terms of her lifelong fascination with the Mitford family. At nearly 500 pages, the book covers all of the significant parts of the sisters’ lives and puts them in the context of some of the 20th century’s major historical events.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Lord and local oil company manager Aaron McBride have beef. Lord signed over rights to McBride’s company Highlands to drill for oil on his West Texas land - who basically scammed him. After Lord gets some revenge by publicly beating McBride in front of his staff, the two have a bitter fight that ends with McBride dead and the feud continuing as McBride’s widow sets out to get vengeance on her dead husband.
A man manipulates his wife into thinking his lies are true and that she’s going crazy, like her late mother. But where does he go every evening and who’s making that noise in the flat above - or is that another figment of the wife’s supposed mania? Then a retired cop appears one evening when the husband is away with a tall tale of murder most foul…
