Iman Vellani and Marianna Ignazzi’s Chachu #1 is out today from @imagecomics.com and Scott takes a look at it. “Just the way that she draws Leila and Chachu smoking cigarettes speaks to the character work that Ignazzi is doing.‘ www.fromcovertocover.com/iman-vellani...

Noir and the Sunset Haze of Family Memory in Iman Vellani and Marianna Ignazzi's Chachu #1

This is a young woman who, as seen through the art and the writing, exudes a coolness— she’s trying to be the niece that a long-lost uncle in L.A. would want.

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"Harkham’s cartooning conveys Alvarez’s cool calmness as he faces the death penalty; this is clearly a man who has other plans than facing the hangman’s noose." Scott on Sammy Harkham's Crickets #9. www.fromcovertocover.com/sammy-harkha...

Friends and Sinners in Sammy Harkham’s Crickets #9

Crickets #9 contains many stories and yet feels like a singular, unified comic book.

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Scott reviews @paulchadwick.bsky.social's Concrete: Stars Over Sand #2 and writes, "Stars Over Sand is much more immediate and raw; this is happening in the here and now, not in the past as a memory," out now from @darkhorse.com. www.fromcovertocover.com/a-lambent-th...

A Lambent Thing-- Paul Chadwick's That Concrete: Stars Over Sand #2

… this feels more like what the experience of waking up in an alien body would be— the confusion, disorientation, and fear…

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I write a bit about just how Rob Williams and Henry Flint beat you up (in a good way) in Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return, out now from @2000ad.bsky.social. www.fromcovertocover.com/judge-dredd-...

Breathe in the Sickness of Rob Williams & Henry Flint's Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return

These comics kick you, stab you with a rusty blade, and then try to gouge your eyes out. And you love every second of it.

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“Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…” Wrote a bit about one of the best continuing #manga series around. www.fromcovertocover.com/go-into-kiyo...

Go Into Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 With Childlike Wonder

Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! V16 is a balm for cynicism…

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Keigo Shinzo’s Hirayasumi is one of the best #manga series out there right now and @scottcederlund.bsky.social explores what he’s doing in the 7th volume. www.fromcovertocover.com/growing-up-d...

Growing Up Day by Day in Keigo Shinzo's Hirayasumi Volume 7

Keigo Shinzo’s slice-of-life story captures the ups and downs that most of us face every day, reflecting them through our own insecurities as we watch these mismatched cousins try to navigate their li...

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We take a look at 1986’s The Question #1 by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan. www.fromcovertocover.com/dennis-oneil...

Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Restate The Question

Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan reintroduce The Question only to tear him down again before they can build him back up.

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This review is going back about 15+ years but here’s a look from 2010 at Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s excellent Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights. www.fromcovertocover.com/beasts-of-bu...

From the Archives- Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights

Have you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?

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“Exploring the ways that we play roles to protect ourselves, nearly every person in this story is trying to be something that they’re not.” Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. www.fromcovertocover.com/mark-russell...

“Change Your Heart…”— Lessons from Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles

Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s comic is a reminder and a call to arms.

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Tomorrow on the site.

We start out 2026 by looking back on 2025 a bit- the personal highs and lows of it. www.fromcovertocover.com/na-na-na-na-...

Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye (to 2025)-- Comic Bookmarks for January 4, 2026

The year that was...

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"Pope’s inky artwork makes it sometimes difficult to separate the mundane from the wondrous in this story." We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One. www.fromcovertocover.com/total-thb-vo...

Is There Life on Mars? — a look at Paul Pope’s Total THB Volume One

Total THB doesn’t feel like a 30 year old comic book.

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“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.” This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks. www.fromcovertocover.com/charles-soul...

Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell

Frank Miller casts a long shadow over this story and Charles Soule and Steve McNiven know it.

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“While it seems easy to boil his work down to simple descriptions that frees you to offhandedly quantify and classify his work as something “Jasonesque”, that’s also an abdication of engaging with Jason in any meaningful way.” www.fromcovertocover.com/the-rebellio...

The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In Trieste

Jason doesn’t give you any more than he has to and that’s often less than you think you need.

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I see that there’s a Kickstarter campaign for a colorized version of Brian Bolland’s The Actress and the Bishop. I wrote a bit about the strip a couple of years ago. If you haven’t seen these, they’re a lot of fun. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-actress-...

One Panel- The Actress and the Bishop Throw a Party by Brian Bolland

A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.

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Caroline Cash “expresses joy, frustration, resignation, and joy in her cartooning so it’s easy to get lost in this story without feeling like Cash is having to pull us into it.” Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special. www.fromcovertocover.com/adventure-ti...

Off to College in Caroline Cash's Adventure Time Alternate Universe Story

So if we know that the story is a meet-cute story, that allows Cash to focus on how we move through this story.

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Finally continuing our look at the initial Absolute titles from DC, we dive into Absolute Superman and how it may be a giving us a Superman for 2025. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-kids-are...

The Kids Aren't Alright Part 2-- Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval's Absolute Superman: Last Dust of Krypton

So what does the story of an alien boy, saved from a dying world by his parents and sent to Earth, look like in 2025 when “alien” is an extremely loaded and fraught word?

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“Maybe the Love and Rockets stories should be about growing up and not about being grown up. Enter Tonta and her friends.” On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings. www.fromcovertocover.com/jaime-hernan...

Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings

Is this Love and Rockets: The Next Generation or the continuation of an ongoing story that started over 40 years ago?

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Giovanna Fabi “moves around the spaces of these connections and the void produced when one of them goes away. Her artwork is very simple and open; it’s easy to put yourself into the position of both the woman and the man…” www.fromcovertocover.com/giovanna-fab...

Loving the Grid in Giovanna Fabi’s Perfect Love (mini kuš! #133)

Giovanna Fabi uses her artwork to evoke so many feelings out of the reader.

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The first In a planned trio (or maybe quartet) of pieces on the Absolute line over the next month or two. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-scott...

The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo

Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.

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“… there’s nothing in Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo to suggest that Bruce Wayne has any idea of how to engage in the world other than lashing out at it.” A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-scott...

The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo

Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.

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“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-judge...

We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World

The perfect comic that we need in 2025.

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“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-judge...

We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World

The perfect comic that we need in 2025.

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“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…” Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-kevin...

Review— Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob

Why does this comic exist?

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My review of Maurice Vellekoop’s 2024 book “I’m So Happy We Had This Time Together.” “There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-im-so...

Review: I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop

This forms the space for Vellekoop to dig into these different relationships in his life, some of which are deep-rooted while others are fleeting connections that are more building blocks for Maurice ...

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"Turns out that The Umbrella Academy’s mum and dad had a whole other family. A secret family. Maybe even a favorite family. A better family." Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com. www.fromcovertocover.com#gsc.tab=0

“…as just a taste of what was and what is to come, Road to the Six is the right amount of that old familiar spark of action/adventure and the promise that there are more stories to tell…” A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-culle...

The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0

Sometimes a tease is all you need.

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