Mrs. Frisby and the Pseudonym

You learn something new every day.

And probably forget it tomorrow.

A revengeful Parker sits in the side of a bed of his overdosed wife on the cover of Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter.

Shadows and noir lighting assist the wordless scene of a gloved man breaking into an apartment.

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Parker by Darwyn Cooke. Crime noir adapted from Donald Westlake’s novels, this book is a down and dirty retro thriller and a master class in style and design. (22/25)

A woman with a battle hammer staring down plate armored knights on the cover of Extremity #3.

Steampunk knights fuck around with a Leviathan’s cub and are about to find out. Art by Daniel Warren-Johnson.

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Extremity by Daniel Warren-Johnson. Genre mashup steampunk fantasy with a truly emotional storyline amidst plenty of awesome action and gruesome violence. (21/25)

Akira #6, on a stark white background, Kaneda holds a dead Yamagata after his head gets asploded.

Dutch angle comic panels with speed lines conveying a truck swerving and hitting police as they scatter.

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Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo. A tale of adolescent street gangs, incredibly powerful psychic mutants, and a military government cover up. Blew my mind as a young teen. (20/25)

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Tintin and Captain Haddock are shown Yeti tracks in the snow on the cover of Tintin In Tibet.

The title page of Red Rackham’s Treasure, introducing several salty dogs and saltier sailors.

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Tintin by Herge. I grew up overseas, and Tintin and Asterix were basically the international Batman and Spider-Man. Globetrotting adventure and slapstick from Belgium. (19/25)

Elves versus goblins on the cover of Warp Graphics Elfquest #17

The wolf rider elf clan can get wordy.

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Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini. Lavishly illustrated small press fantasy epic that made it into book stores of my youth before I even discovered comic book stores.(18/25)

The cover of Kane #12, a top down composition of a doctor fighting with a detective on a checkered floor.

Three police officers have an office conversation while cruisers race into the night, sirens blaring.

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Kane by Paul Grist. Gripping and often hilarious police drama that takes advantage of B&W art in its bold compositions and noir storytelling. (17/25)

John Carter and the red martians geared up for war on the cover of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume two issue one.

Mina Harker (Murray) meets Campion Bond of MI5 in front of Dover Falls.

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill. Public domain literary characters form a team of unlikely heroes to save the world, or destroy it. (16/25)

A study in pink: a mostly pink-colored cover featuring a falling heroine. THB 6a by Paul Pope

HR Watson runs from a Popemek in the science fiction comic THB. Cameo appearance by Jeff Smith’s Fone Bone.

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THB by Paul Pope. A highly original organic sci-fi world and the perfect vehicle for Pope’s frenetic ink work and storytelling. (15/25)

A tuxedo cat in a trench coat and a tabby cat femme fatale on the noir-drenched cover of Blacksad.

Detective Blacksad shakes down a flower salesman in a colorful comic book page by Juanjo Guarnido.

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Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido. Lavishly painted by an ex-Disney animator, this anthropomorphic 1950s noir story is about crime, racism, & politics. (14/25)

Mowgli from The Jungle Book on the cover of Night Music #3 by P. Craig Russell.

A colorful page from the Magic Flute opera adaptation.

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Night Music by P. Craig Russell. Beautiful drawn anthology comic featuring envelope-pushing short stories and opera adaptations. Kipling, Mozart, Oscar Wilde. (13/25)

Head Lopper and his companion Agatha, the talking severed head of a witch, are ferried across a River of lost souls, desperate hands grasping from the black water.

On a drawbridge, Head Lopper lops some guard heads as blood splurts everywhere. He then runs away with a ninja and a gnome.

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Head Lopper by Andrew Maclean. A barbarian good at only one thing (not Groo). One part violent fantasy epic, one part morality play, one part Saturday morning cartoon. (12/25)

Magic is green on the cover of Mage #1, showcasing the wizard Mirth and Kevin in his white thunderbolt t-shirt.

A lavishly painted page from the first series of Mage by Matt Wagner.

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Mage by Matt Wagner. Modern world arthurian hero myth that spans the life of Kevin Matchstick over four real life decades and three series. (11/25)

A girl in blue armor rides a glider on the cover of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind book 1, part 1 by Viz Comics.

Stark and beautiful scenes of the toxic forest and Nausicaa’s glider.

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Nausicaa by Hayao Miyazaki. Epic fantasy about decomposing ecology, destructive technology, warring countries, and intense politics. About 10x as long as the anime. (10/25)

I’m only doing one title by creator on this list, so today’s Mike Mignola comic also represents Hellboy, BPRD, Lobster Johnson, and his 90s Dracula adaptation.

Paranormal investigators fighting mummies on the cover of Zombie World: Champion of the Worms #1

A male spirit medium transforms into female ectoplasmic form to investigate the ductwork of the museum. Tintin-inspired art by Pat McEown.

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Zombie World: Champion of the Worms by Mignola and McEown. Preceding the Hellboy/BPRD Mignolaverse by a year, this book had all the same elements: Lovecraft, pulp, fun. (9/10)

Cages #1 from Tundra Comics, featuring the shadow of a cat superimposed with a collage of a man’s face.

A man plays a wind instrument on a fire escape while a cat watches. Page from Cages by Dave McKean.

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Cages by Dave McKean. Slice of life in the city. Art, jazz, food, creation myths, and cats. McKean uses pen, paint, photography, and collage throughout the story. (8/25)

I get my news from a reliable source.

Rocketeer Special Edition #1, featuring a man with a flying jetpack grabbing the wing of a Nazi plane, a gangster roughing up a mechanic, and a movie producer manhandling an actress. Times never change.

Splash page from The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens.

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The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens. Perfect pulp hero by a perfectionist comic artist. 1940s LA as a backdrop, and pilots, movie stars, gangsters, and Nazis as players. (7/25)

Usagi nearly defeated by Jei in the classic Grasscutter story arc.

Usagi rushes to the assistance of an oblivious young girl in the path of a runaway horse.

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Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai. The epic life of a masterless ronin, depicted with animals. Stan has been the singular artist/writer on the series for more than 40 years. (6/25)

A werewolf in a Kung fu Gi has nothing to do with the typical content of Criminal, but it does exist in their world and is one of my favorite covers. Deadly Hands of Criminal #1

A man breaking into a mansion in one of Sean Phillips’ Criminal pages.

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Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Think about your favorite 70s crime film, and then imagine that it spawned a series of spin-offs in the same world. (5/25)

I am so bad at social media. (4/25)

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A spaceman and spacegal about to be devoured by a green slime. Weird Science #22 cover by Wally Wood.

The last page of “50 Girls 50” - what a twist! Art by Al Williamson.

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Weird Science (and all the SciFi books) from EC Comics. The best speculative fiction from before the moon landing, told in dense and lush eight-pagers. (4/25)

Tank Girl battles a devil with a baseball bat on the cover of issue #2 of the first Dark Horse series.

A page from Tank Girl Odyssey by Jaime Hewlett, featuring a tank flying through the air towards the reader.

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Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jaime Hewlett. Irreverent and insane in the best way. Tank Girl stayed entertaining from Deadline Magazine through decades of mini-series. (3/25)

Grey’s iconic “LIPS” helmet, on the cover to Grey #1 from 1988 Viz Comics. Art and story by Yoshihisa Tagami.

A splash page of two men sitting on top of a tank, from the 1988 Viz Comics translation of Grey.

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Grey by Yoshihisa Tagami. Short, atmospheric manga set in a war torn future. Some of the best stylish action choreography in comics.

The Sixth Gun #50, featuring gunslinger Becky Montcrief.

A motley band of misfits, consisting of a grizzled moccasin-wearing tracker, a grey man with glowing eyes holding a head in a box, a 10 ft tall shackled ogre, a mysterious Arabian man, a rapier wielding woman Zorro, and a dapper giant wearing a bowler hat.

*This is a thread I can get behind*

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The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt. Cowboys and magic with terrific world building. (1/25)

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

PSN profile for inkablotz, showing 60 trophies and an S rank for the game Hades.

My first PlayStation Platinum trophy of the year is for Hades, a game I started three years ago but didn’t fully appreciate until now. I will play Hades 2 when it releases on this platform.

The leader of the Rock Riders

I call the third gang in Mad Max Fury Road “George Clinton and Bikeadelic”.