Update for 7/21/22

July 21, 2022

It’s another one from the mini kus pile, and this time it’s Li’l Jormly by Christopher Sperandio!


Update for 7/19/22

July 19, 2022

Probably not the greatest idea to mention my covid positive status and then take a week off reviewing, huh? I’m fine, outside of maybe some long covid I haven’t found out about yet. But enough about me! New review today for Applewood Canyon #5 by Brian Canini.


Update for 7/8/22

July 8, 2022

New review today for Poem by M.D. Usher and T. Motley, and you may remember that second name because I’ve been reviewing his stuff since the earliest days of Optical Sloth. Happy weekend y’all!


Update for 7/6/22

July 6, 2022

New review today for Shooting by Pedro Burgos, as I try but fail to go a week without reviewing one of the mini kus books. Oh, also I have covid, so please don’t breathe in too close to your screen. It took two and a half years, but it finally got me (I’m doing fine, please don’t fret).


Update for 7/4/22

July 4, 2022

New review today for The Lighthouse in the City Volume 8 by Karl Christian Krumpholz! Sure, it’s a holiday, but I’m stuck at home with covid so you get a review. Yep, way after it’s fashionable I finally got hit by the pandemic. Always late to the party!


Update for 6/30/22

June 30, 2022

It’s mini kus time! Just in case anybody thought they were going to call it a day after putting out the first 100 issues of their series, they’ve sent along everything up to #110. This one is #103, and it’s Grandad Reg by Patrick Wray and Clara Heathcock.


Update for 6/28/22

June 28, 2022

New review today for Applewood Canyon #4 by Brian Canini. You’d think my stack of Brian’s comics left to review would be decreasing, but if anything I’m just holding steady. 21 years running this website, and he might be the one that pushes me to start doing bulk reviews, or at least a few issues at a time. How else am I going to finish Plastic People?


Update for 6/24/22

June 24, 2022

New review today for Odd Clods #1 by Steve Steiner, which is both a mini comic and a newspaper. No, somehow the comics world at large still hasn’t figured out how to refer to these suckers…


Update for 6/22/22

June 22, 2022

New review today for My Life in Records #7: Gemini Dream by Grant Thomas. Y’all are watching the January 6th hearings, right? Just a public service announcement if you’re not, as it’s some riveting stuff.


Update for 6/20/22

June 20, 2022

New review today for a graphic novel I’m finally getting around to: O Human Star Volume Three by Blue Delliquanti!


Update for 6/15/22

June 15, 2022

New review today for Perry Midlife by S.R. Arnold, as I sit here listening to Pegboy for the first time in many years thanks to the nostalgia blast I got from John Porcellino’s comic earlier in the week. Does anybody outside of the Chicago area remember them? Hm.


Update for 6/13/22

June 13, 2022

OK, that miserable cold is gone, so now I’m back to my normal brain. Hooray? New review today for The Collected Prairie Pothole by John Porcellino!


Update for 6/1/22

June 1, 2022

New review today for Eyeland #1 by Nick Forker, as “should I be writing these reviews with a cloudy flu brain? Eh, what’s the worst that could happen” week continues!


Update for 5/30/22

May 30, 2022

Reader alert: I’m doing that thing where I review a few books for the week all at once, but I’m also doing that while recovering from one humdinger of a cold (not covid, I’ve taken three covid tests in the last five days and they were all negative). Meaning that I’m probably meandering even more than usual, which should be a terrifying prospect for regular readers. New readers, I’m usually at least slightly more coherent than this. New review today for Town and County #1 by Alex Nall!


Update for 5/26/22

May 26, 2022

New review today for Where the Rent Went by Andrew Neal, the Meeting Comics guy! Hey, wait a minute. Didn’t I say that I wasn’t going to do weekly reviews for his comics any more? Yes, and that’s a great point. See, my reasoning for that was simple. What I decided was


Update for 5/24/22

May 24, 2022

I tend to write the updates on the weekend these days, and I should be at SPACE (Columbus small press comics extravaganza) right now. But I either have a false negative for a covid test or a fairly nasty cold, so either way I didn’t see any reason to expose anybody else to it. I’m basically writing all this to tell any regular readers who were also at SPACE: send me your review comics if you have any left after the show! I’m hoping to do a belated SPACE week with a fraction of the comics I missed. One of them, according to the guest list, was Brian Canini, and the new review today is for his Applewood Canyon #3.


Update for 5/12/22

May 12, 2022

New review today for Forever and Everything #8 by Kyle Bravo. Will I have time for reviews next week? Yeah, probably. You all know the drill by now, right? Even if I go away for a week or even two, I still come back, full of new comics to talk about.


Update for 5/10/22

May 10, 2022

Still scrambling a bit at work, but don’t fret, I still had time to get two reviews in the can for the week. Up today is Meditation Funnies #1 by M. Elias Hiebert!


Update for 4/29/22

April 29, 2022

It’s new King Cat day! New review for King Cat #81 yes that’s right #81 by John Porcellino. This will probably be it for reviews until after the election week, but here’s a little tip for you potential Ohio voters: turnout is WAY down this time around, probably having something to do with all the court challenges and the uncertainty of it all. So if you have an underdog you’d like to win a primary in this backwater state, get several of your friends together and vote! You’d have a real shot this time around.


Update for 4/27/22

April 27, 2022

New review today for Meeting Comics #20 by Andrew Neal, and this is going to conclude my weekly Meeting Comics reviews (missed weeks due to work and/or life not included). Andrew was nice enough to send along the next few issues, and don’t you fret, I will be getting to them, but I’m letting other comics pile up over here. So when I saw that the rest of the issues have their own titles (although technically they’re part of Meeting Comics), I decided to take that very slight excuse and run with it. Don’t get me wrong, these have been an ongoing delight, and I’ll most likely have everything else reviewed in the next few months regardless. Just keeping y’all updated is all…