Tris Legomenon

Look! An Adventures of Tintin pastiche! It’s so exciting. Villains in sweaters and sports coats. Aging heroes with massive chins and squinty eyes. Simplistic morality. Gunfights where no one gets hurt. I’m way too young and live on the wrong continent to be an official Tintin fan but I’m close enough to get a kick [...]

Billy the Dunce is one of the comics that I’m most excited about right now. The premise is fairly basic: Billy is the only normal kid at a boarding school for child geniuses. He gets dragged, sometimes willingly and sometimes not, through the wacky adventures of his more gifted classmates. The art is polished in [...]

The other day I was reminded of Faith Erin Hicks’s current online project Ice and caught up on some new pages. It’s good. I like her earlier Demonology 101 too, though it’s much rougher. I’m a sucker for Whedon-esque soap opera.