Arts & Entertainment The Decontextualized Adventures of the Superfisters All of our comics this week have been struck by some kind of diabolic decontextualization ray, leaving them to fend for themselves in the bleak tundra of WTF. From local artist Chris Wisnia
Arts & Entertainment The Kooky Adventures of the Superfisters Even as Dr. DeBunko exhorts us to subscribe to Skeptic Magazine, we can't help but feel that there are some missed opportunities here to ponder some real mysteries -- namely, how otherwise intelligent
Arts & Entertainment The Woozy Adventures of the Superfisters The gimmick is as follows: you dream something, then you email Jesse to tell him about it, and then he draws up a spiffy four-panel illustration of your tormented, soul-baring, saucy imaginings. Opening
Arts & Entertainment The Blissful Adventures of the Superfisters But first, a caveat regarding Linda Medley's : not a whole heck of a lot happens in issue one. It's sorta like at the beginning of a role-playing game, where you have to spend
Arts & Entertainment The Treatable Adventures of the Superfisters This isn't a comic book you can approach lightly; it's a graphic novel that requires you take a few deep breaths before diving in. Childhood awfulness led Madison to dissociate herself into a
Arts & Entertainment The Doomed Adventures of the Superfisters It's a beautiful, mournful look back at a miserable 1987, wherein a boy's emotions are repeatedly chiseled away by a world that doesn't care that he has any feelings at all. Nobody cares
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." The six-book series explores Asianness, whatever that
Arts & Entertainment The Motivational Adventures of the SuperFisters People seem to take particular delight in rummaging through the emotional trash of those who project an image of purity, and Adam's no disappointment: he gets tons of love notes from fans, and
Arts & Entertainment The Masculine Adventures of the SuperFisters Romp's got a good heart -- he wants to fight bullies and protect the little guy, his limblessness notwithstanding -- and being all urban and everything, he doesn't do much thinking about it.
Arts & Entertainment The Self-Contained Adventures of the SuperFisters Sounds great, right? Yeah, we were totally into it up until the last three pages. You know that feeling you get at a movie, where you know the closing song is playing but
Arts & Entertainment The Existential Adventures of the Superfisters Before we forget to mention: Grant Morrison, superheroic comic creator extraordinaire, will be in town at Isotope Comics on Friday, February 10th. Do. Not. Miss. This. The REAL comic news this week, though,
Arts & Entertainment The Ambitious Adventures of the Superfisters In a collaboration with (appropriately) Slave Labor Graphics, Disney has started releasing a series of comics inspired by the Haunted Mansion attraction, and the result is, what a relief, none too shabby. Each
Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
Arts & Entertainment The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters "Loveless" (not to be confused with the Anime series of the same name) is a romance, too, of sorts; set in the post-Civil War south, it's the story of a former Confederate soldier
Arts & Entertainment The Semimystical Adventures of the Superfisters Okay, we're sorry, but if you're not totally in love with we're going to have to fight you. Recommended highly by the froods at Isotope Comics as well as by us, It's the
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
Arts & Entertainment And Now For A Bit Of Culture A burgled cache of vintage erotica, produced by Adolf himself, is the Maguffin that gets the ball rolling in "Desolation Jones," a series of comix by Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III.
Arts & Entertainment The Incendiary Adventures of the SuperFisters (Prologue) It was a day like any other, we recall, when Isotope Comics suddenly fell into our lap -- and then, in a blur of capes and shotguns, we were off on the wildest
