New review today for Crime and Punishment by M.S. Harkness! No, she wasn’t at SPACE, but I managed to get her latest comics while in Columbus anyway.
Update for 5/26/25
May 26, 2025Somehow last week got away from me, so I’ll end SPACE week how it began: with a review every day of the week, just like old times when I was still young and full of enough energy to do such a thing. New review today for Not What I Ordered by Matthew Northrup!
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Update for 5/15/25
May 15, 2025New review today for The Light Outside the Window by Ben Wright-Neuman. Also sure, I may review the same names a lot (because they make so many comics), but both reviews this week were for brand new artists to the website, and three out of the five reviews last week were also for brand new people. So hey, I’m still trying to keep things interesting!
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Update for 5/13/25
May 13, 2025New review today for Dirt #2 by Ethan Best, as it’s still all SPACE all the time at this here website.
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Update for 5/9/25
May 9, 2025New review today for Blood Bowl by Lief Bennett! Would you believe that I had another comic all set to review (Save It For Later by Nate Powell), only to rediscover that I already wrote a lengthy review of it back in 2021. At least it was a library copy, so when I bought a copy from Nate at SPACE this year I didn’t end up with two copies on my shelves. Still, the ongoing replacement of my brain by this website continues. Happy weekend everybody!
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Update for 5/8/25
May 8, 2025New review today for Mr. Rock and his Light Bulb Oven by Pam Bliss. Has she been making comics longer than anybody else at SPACE? She started in 1989, so you tell me, comics historians reading this that I just made up in my head!
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Update for 5/7/25
May 7, 2025New review today for Tongue-Tied by Chandu Tennety, as SPACE month (and also SPACE week specifically) continues!
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Update for 5/6/25
May 6, 2025New review today for Anxiety is the Pits! by Olivia Shamell. I think she was in the CCAD section of SPACE, which I only realized well after the fact, meaning that I should have stopped at more of their areas to get more of their comics. Well, if anybody from there is reading this and wondering if I would also ramble on for a bit about their comics, I absolutely would! Just send them to the address on the sidebar there. The bar for entry here is basically me saying “oh look, a new comic!” when I get the mail.
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Update for 5/5/25
May 5, 2025I made it to SPACE and ended up with quite a pile of mini comics, so since I noticed that I had a SPACE month last year, why not do it again this year? This may include a few books from my visit to the Laughing Ogre comic shop, but since I make the rules around here I’ve decided that this also counts. And what the heck, I’m also doing an old school reviewing week, where I review a comic a day. Believe it or not, this was the norm for the first decade of this website. Yes, it seems crazy to me now too. New review today for Metroid Gear by David G. Caldwell!
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Update for 4/23/25
April 23, 2025New review today for Glimpses of Life #9 by Brian Canini, and speaking of Ohio artists, it’s SPACE time again this weekend! I think I’ll be able to make it, although it’s a little trickier now that I’m living in Illinois again. If you’re local, check it out!
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Update for 4/21/25
April 21, 2025New review today for Dick Blaster by Jeffrey Williams and Danny Ferbert, which really got me into the Easter spirit (I often write reviews for the week over the weekend).
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Update for 4/17/25
April 17, 2025New review today for Bottoms Up! by all kinds of artists, including a whole lot of them who have been on this website before.
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Update for 4/15/25
April 15, 2025New review today for This Years is Next Year’s Last Year by Christopher Sperandio. Would you believe that this might not be the last of the comics I have to review from Cartoon Crossroads last years? It’s possible that I buy too many comics!
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Update for 4/9/25
April 9, 2025New review today for The Fifty Flip Experiment #33 by Dan Hill, as I once again try and fail to stay focused while writing one of his reviews. Maybe next time!
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Update for 4/7/25
April 7, 2025Back to the reviews after the election, and assuming I stick with this job it’s my last election until next year, so reviews should be back to normal for the foreseeable future. Assuming we keep having elections, ha ha ha I guess? Oof. Hey, it’s a new review for Midville High #7 by Matt Blair! Which was a welcome excuse to edit a couple of my older reviews of his comics, as the formatting for those got wonky somewhere along the way. One of these days I’ll get around to fixing all of them! (I will probably never get around to fixing all of them)
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Update for 3/27/25
March 27, 2025New review today for Career Shoplifter by Gabrielle Bell, and considering how many comics/books I’ve read from her over the years, it’s odd that this is only the fourth one I’ve reviewed. Yeah surprise, I read all kinds of comics that I don’t review. Also there’s an election coming up on 4/1. Yes, again! Meaning that I most likely won’t have any reviews up next week, but if you live in one of the many states having an election, please participate. If it’s not obvious yet, there are a whole lot of things that we take for granted in this country that are rapidly disappearing, so exercise that right while you have it, won’t you?
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Update for 3/25/25
March 25, 2025New review today for Santos Sisters #8 by Greg and Fake Petre, and hey, the collection of the first five issues is available from Fantagraphics now if you want to get caught up.
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“Update” for 3/23/25
March 23, 2025I had a couple of things to announce and no good place to put them, so how about right here and now? I’ve been doing reviews on this here website for almost 24 years now, and in that time I’ve reviewed a whole lot of autobiographical comics that people may have concerns with later in life, for whatever reason. None of my business why, really! I mention this because I just took down a couple of reviews at the request of an artist, so I wanted to make it clear to everybody: if you’d like me to remove one or more of your reviews, just ask me! I’m always happy to do it. Sure, I like to think of this as a big historical archive, but let’s be honest here. This is a website. If society goes away, nobody is going to find a copy of this in the ruins. In other news, if you’re reading this at some point in the next several hours, a big Fantagraphics sale snuck up on me, the one they do where they give you a $50 gift card for every $50 you spend. So it’s basically a half off sale, with the only difference being that the “half off” comes later. With the books they’ve already put out this year, and the books yet to come, this should not be missed. OK, reviews coming later this week, bye!
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Update for 3/19/25
March 19, 2025New review today for When to Pick a Pomegranate by Yasmeen Abedifard, and I think I’ve finally typed “pomegranate” enough times now where the spelling makes sense. Huzzah for personal growth!
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Update for 3/17/25
March 17, 2025New review today for The Big Red Machine, Grandma, and Me by Terry Eisele and Brian Canini. It’s one of the books that Brian sent me ages ago and I’ve been meaning to get to for just as long. Does this mean that I’m getting closer to reviewing all of the books that he’s sent me? Ha ha no. But I’m trying!
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