Comics Worth Reading

Graphic Novel Reviews

Looking for the best of the best? Here's a list of Must-Read Comic Classics, my attempt at defining a comics canon.

• *110 Percent — Best of 2006 | Oct 23 2006
• *12 Days — Recommended | Feb 22 2007
• *12 Reasons Why I Love Her — Best of 2006 | Apr 22 2008
• *A Treasury of Victorian Murder — Recommended Series | Feb 20 2006
• *Action Philosophers — Recommended | Aug 02 2006
• *Adventures in Oz — Recommended | Feb 11 2007
• *Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships — Recommended | Jul 06 2006
• *Age of Bronze: Betrayal — Best of 2007 | Apr 21 2008
• *Alice in Sunderland — Best of 2007 | Apr 23 2008
• *Amelia Rules!: The Whole World’s Crazy — Recommended | May 02 2006
• *Amelia Rules!: What Makes You Happy — Recommended | May 03 2006
• *Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming — Recommended | Apr 24 2006
• *Are We Feeling Safer Yet? — Recommended | Dec 24 2006
• *Artesia — Recommended Series | Apr 15 2006
• *Banana Sunday — Recommended | Jan 15 2006
• *Beanworld — Recommended Series | Nov 13 2006
• *Blacksad: Arctic Nation — Recommended | Jan 16 2006
• *Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright — Recommended | Feb 11 2006
• *Breakfast After Noon — Recommended | Feb 07 2006
• *Breaking Up — Recommended | Apr 05 2007
• *Bumperboy Loses His Marbles — Recommended | Feb 06 2006
• *Cairo — Best of 2007 | Dec 20 2007
• *Cancer Vixen — Recommended | May 24 2007
• *Capote in Kansas — Recommended | Dec 22 2005
• *Castle Waiting — Best of 2006 | May 25 2008
• *Cathedral Child — Recommended | Feb 04 2006
• *Chiggers — Recommended | Apr 06 2008
• *Clan Apis — Recommended | Jan 20 2006
• *Dignifying Science — Recommended | Mar 15 2006
• *Dramacon Book 1 — Recommended | Jul 25 2006
• *Dramacon Book 2 — Best of 2006 | Nov 13 2006
• *Dumped — Recommended | Feb 09 2006
• *Dykes to Watch Out For — Recommended Series | Jun 23 2006
• *Egg Story — Recommended | Dec 29 2005
• *Exit Wounds — Best of 2007 | Dec 05 2007
• *Eyebeam — Recommended Series | Jun 22 2006
• *Fell: Feral City — Recommended | Sep 18 2007
• *Finder 3: King of the Cats — Recommended | Jan 27 2007
• *Finder 4: Talisman — Recommended | May 20 2007
• *Finder 5: Dream Sequence — Recommended | Jun 05 2007
• *Finder 6: Mystery Date — Recommended | Jun 25 2007
• *Finder 7: The Rescuers — Recommended | Jul 25 2007
• *Finder 8: Five Crazy Women — Best of 2006 | Aug 21 2007
• *Finder: Sin-Eater — Recommended | Jan 24 2007
• *First in Space — Best of 2007 | May 01 2007
• *From Hell — Recommended | Aug 15 2008
• *Fun Home — Best of 2006 | Dec 20 2006
• *Geisha — Recommended | Feb 10 2006
• *Get a Life — Recommended | Feb 14 2008
• *Girl Genius 2: The Airship City — Recommended | Aug 17 2007
• *Girl Genius: The Beetleburg Clank — Recommended | Nov 14 2006
• *Go With Grace — Recommended | Sep 04 2007
• *Gray Horses — Recommended | Mar 26 2006
• *Grease Monkey — Recommended | May 28 2008
• *Halo and Sprocket — Recommended | Feb 10 2006
• *Halo and Sprocket: Natural Creatures — Recommended | May 11 2008
• *Hicksville — Recommended | Oct 04 2006
• *Hopeless Savages — Recommended | Feb 19 2006
• *Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero — Recommended | Feb 19 2006
• *Kabuki: Skin Deep — Recommended | May 30 2007
• *Kane: Greetings From New Eden — Recommended | Jun 23 2006
• *Kat & Mouse — Recommended Series | Aug 01 2006
• *Last Exit Before Toll — Recommended | Dec 29 2005
• *Levitation — Recommended | May 11 2007
• *Little Nothings — Recommended | Apr 02 2008
• *Little Vampire — Recommended | Apr 30 2008
• *Little White Mouse — Recommended | Apr 15 2006
• *Lost at Sea — Recommended | Dec 20 2005
• *Love the Way You Love — Recommended Series | Nov 05 2006
• *Lucky — Recommended | Apr 06 2007
• *Midnight Sun — Recommended | Jan 17 2008
• *Mom’s Cancer — Best of 2006 | Mar 06 2006
• *Monkey Food — Recommended | Mar 25 2006
• *Moped Army — Recommended | Dec 20 2005
• *Night Fisher — Recommended | Mar 13 2006
• *Nothing Better — Best of 2007 | Feb 07 2008
• *Odds Off — Recommended | Jul 21 2006
• *Owly — Recommended Series | Jan 01 2006
• *Owly: A Time to Be Brave — Recommended | Jul 31 2008
• *Owly: Tiny Tales — Recommended | Nov 17 2008
• *Persepolis — Recommended | Mar 20 2006
• *Pizzeria Kamikaze — Recommended | Jul 12 2006
• *Pride of Baghdad — Recommended | Dec 03 2006
• *Promethea — Recommended | Dec 01 2008
• *Queen & Country — Recommended Series | Mar 11 2006
• *Re-Gifters — Best of 2007 | Sep 05 2007
• *Romance Without Tears — Recommended | Jan 21 2006
• *Salamander Dream — Recommended | Feb 08 2006
• *Salt Water Taffy — Recommended | Aug 13 2008
• *Scandalous — Recommended | Dec 29 2005
• *Scary Godmother — Recommended Series | May 24 2006
• *Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight — Recommended | Dec 15 2005
• *Scooter Girl — Recommended | Apr 20 2006
• *Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness — Recommended | Jun 26 2006
• *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Recommended | Dec 20 2005
• *Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life — Recommended | Dec 20 2005
• *Slow News Day — Recommended | Mar 14 2006
• *Solstice — Recommended | Mar 09 2006
• *Sorcerers & Secretaries Book 1 — Best of 2006 | Apr 10 2006
• *Spike: Shadow Puppets — Recommended | Apr 17 2008
• *Stagger Lee — Recommended | May 21 2007
• *Steady Beat Book 1 — Recommended | May 23 2006
• *Steady Beat Book 2 — Recommended | Oct 30 2006
• *Stuck Rubber Baby — Recommended | May 17 2006
• *Suspended in Language — Recommended | Mar 18 2006
• *Teenagers From Mars — Recommended | Dec 15 2005
• *That Kind of Girl — Recommended | Jun 18 2006
• *The Annotated Northwest Passage — Best of 2007 | Dec 29 2005
• *The Baby-Sitters Club — Recommended | Aug 03 2006
• *The Cowboy Wally Show — Recommended | Oct 06 2008
• *The Dead Boy Detectives — Recommended | Jan 14 2006
• *The K Chronicles — Recommended Series | Feb 04 2006
• *The Last Lonely Saturday — Recommended | May 10 2006
• *The Maze Agency — Recommended | Sep 05 2006
• *The Perhapanauts: Second Chances — Recommended | Jul 27 2007
• *The Sandwalk Adventures — Recommended | Jan 22 2006
• *The Tale of One Bad Rat — Recommended | Jul 19 2006
• *The War at Ellsmere — Recommended | Dec 04 2008
• *Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World — Recommended Series | Feb 20 2006
• *Too Cool to Be Forgotten — Recommended | May 12 2008
• *Too Much Hopeless Savages — Recommended | Feb 19 2006
• *Tricked — Recommended | Jan 15 2006
• *True Story, Swear to God: Chances Are… — Recommended | Feb 20 2006
• *Vögelein — Recommended | Dec 29 2005
• *Vögelein: Old Ghosts — Recommended | May 07 2007
• *Wahoo Morris — Recommended | Aug 13 2006
• *Wandering Star — Recommended Series | Feb 18 2006
• *Wet Moon: Feeble Wanderings — Recommended | Mar 21 2006
• *Whiteout — Recommended | Jan 29 2006
• *Why I Hate Saturn — Recommended | Sep 04 2008
• *Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? — Recommended | Dec 18 2005
• *Wire Mothers — Recommended | May 11 2007
• 1000 Steps To World Domination | Jan 13 2006
• 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions | Aug 31 2006
• A Few Perfect Hours… | Jan 15 2006
• A People’s History of American Empire | Mar 08 2008
• After the Snooter | Aug 24 2006
• Age of Bronze: Sacrifice | Jul 06 2006
• AIT Graphic Novels 2006-2007 | Feb 02 2008
• AIT Graphic Novels 2008 | Jul 22 2008
• Alec: How to Be an Artist | Nov 15 2006
• Alec: The King Canute Crowd | Aug 20 2006
• Alec: Three Piece Suit | Aug 22 2006
• American Virgin: Head | Jul 06 2006
• American Widow | Nov 14 2008
• Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper | Nov 23 2008
• Angel: Auld Lang Syne | Oct 21 2007
• Armageddon & Son | Jan 20 2006
• Attitude (series) | Jun 10 2006
• Autobiographix | Jan 28 2006
• Avigon: Gods & Demons | Dec 18 2005
• Big Clay Pot | Oct 17 2006
• Big Fat Little Lit | Dec 08 2006
• Blue Monday: Absolute Beginners | Feb 11 2006
• Blue Monday: Inbetween Days | Feb 12 2006
• Blue Monday: Painted Moon | Feb 12 2006
• Bluewater’s Next Female Politico Comic: Sarah Palin | Oct 20 2008
• Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards | Mar 25 2006
• Bone: Out From Boneville | Dec 17 2007
• Boneyard | Aug 19 2006
• BOP! More Box Office Poison | Sep 03 2006
• Borrowed Time | May 21 2006
• BPRD: Hollow Earth & Other Stories | Jan 20 2006
• Brownsville | Mar 19 2006
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike & Dru | Mar 12 2006
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers | Sep 18 2006
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home | May 27 2008
• Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud Mountain | Jul 26 2006
• Burnout | Jun 19 2008
• Can of Worms | Feb 06 2006
• Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person | Jul 15 2006
• Carnet de Voyage | Dec 29 2005
• Casanova: Luxuria | Aug 10 2007
• Cheat | Aug 08 2006
• Cleburne: A Graphic Novel | Dec 03 2008
• Clockwork Angels | Feb 04 2006
• Clubbing | Jul 21 2007
• Colonia: Islands and Anomalies | Jan 14 2006
• Colonia: On Into the Great Lands | Jan 14 2006
• Confessions of a Blabbermouth | Nov 28 2007
• Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things | Mar 30 2006
• Cover Girl | Jun 10 2008
• CSI: Bad Rap | Jan 21 2006
• CSI: Serial | Jan 21 2006
• Daydream Lullabies | Sep 08 2006
• Dead West | Dec 15 2005
• Death: The High Cost of Living | Mar 09 2007
• Delayed Replays | Jul 17 2008
• Demo | Aug 23 2006
• Dennis the Menace Volume 1 | Mar 26 2006
• Divalicious! Book 1 | Jul 18 2007
• Doctor Who: The Tides of Time | Jan 14 2006
• Dog & Pony Show | Jun 11 2006
• Drawn & Quarterly Volume 5 | Jan 28 2006
• Earthlight Book 1 | Feb 18 2007
• Eating Steve | Nov 17 2007
• Electric Girl (series) | Jan 19 2006
• Embroideries | Jan 20 2006
• Enigma Cipher | Nov 12 2008
• Entanglement | Dec 14 2007
• Fallout | Mar 17 2006
• Flight | Jan 21 2006
• Fool’s Gold Book 1 | Jul 20 2006
• Fool’s Gold Book 2 | Mar 08 2008
• Fox Bunny Funny | Oct 15 2007
• Frank Miller on TCM | Nov 30 2008
• Girl Genius 3: The Monster Engine | Aug 18 2007
• Girl Genius 4: The Circus of Dreams | Nov 25 2006
• Girl Genius 5: The Clockwork Princess | Nov 25 2006
• Girl Genius 6: The Golden Trilobite | Sep 02 2007
• Good as Lily | Nov 27 2007
• Gothic Classics | May 31 2007
• Great Expectations | Jun 08 2008
• Hairspray | Jul 29 2007
• Hardy Boys: The Ocean of Osyria | Jan 20 2006
• Harvey Comics Classics: Casper the Friendly Ghost | Oct 10 2007
• Harvey Comics Classics: Richie Rich | Oct 25 2007
• Hawaiian Dick: Byrd of Paradise | Dec 11 2005
• Hawaiian Dick: The Last Resort | Dec 17 2006
• Hellboy II Sneak Preview Video | Nov 09 2008
• Hellboy: Seed of Destruction | Jan 20 2006
• Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others | Mar 17 2008
• House of Mystery: Room and Boredom | Oct 26 2008
• How Loathsome | Dec 15 2005
• Human Target: Living in Amerika | Jan 14 2006
• In Odd We Trust | Sep 05 2008
• Incognegro | May 22 2008
• It Rhymes With Lust | Jul 24 2007
• Jane’s World Volume 6 | Jul 15 2007
• Jane’s World Volume 7 | Sep 03 2007
• Jane’s World Volume 8 | Feb 18 2008
• Jobnik! | Nov 15 2008
• Kane: The Untouchable Rico Costas and Other Short Stories | Jun 23 2006
• Kane: Thirty Ninth | Jun 23 2006
• Kaput and Zosky | Jul 10 2008
• Kickback | Nov 06 2006
• Kid-Friendly Graphic Novels: CryptoZooey, Kid Beowulf, Capt’n Eli, Yam | Nov 20 2008
• Kimmie66 | Nov 29 2007
• Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dodgeball Chronicles | Sep 25 2008
• Li’l Kids: road to god knows… adventures! | Sep 21 2008
• Life Sucks | Jul 09 2008
• Little Gloomy | Apr 19 2006
• Little Lulu: Lucky Lulu | Jun 18 2006
• Little Lulu: Sunday Afternoon | Jan 20 2006
• Little Star | May 25 2006
• Locas | Feb 06 2007
• Long Hot Summer | Jan 20 2006
• Lost Girls | Nov 04 2006
• Maria’s Wedding | Dec 13 2005
• Milton Caniff’s Steve Canyon | Jan 21 2006
• More Baby-Sitters Club: The Truth About Stacey, Mary Anne Saves the Day | Nov 27 2007
• Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 | Oct 04 2007
• Mr. Big | Jun 06 2008
• Mr. Negativity and Other Tales of Supernatural Law | Feb 20 2006
• Nancy Drew: The Demon of River Heights | Jan 20 2006
• Newsarama’s Acquisition Anniversary | Oct 18 2008
• Ocean | Apr 23 2006
• Off Road | Jan 15 2006
• Off*Beat Book 1 | Apr 09 2006
• Omaha the Cat Dancer Volume 1 | Feb 11 2006
• Omaha the Cat Dancer Volume 2 | Apr 16 2006
• Omaha the Cat Dancer Volume 3 | Jul 03 2006
• Omaha the Cat Dancer Volume 6 | May 06 2007
• One Bad Day | Dec 29 2005
• Orbiter | Aug 05 2006
• Past Lies | May 21 2006
• Paul Has a Summer Job | Jan 21 2006
• Peach Fuzz Book 1 | Jan 08 2006
• Peanutbutter & Jeremy’s Best Book Ever | Jan 21 2006
• Pinky & Stinky | Oct 24 2006
• Project: Romantic | Nov 24 2006
• Queen & Country: Declassified | Feb 05 2006
• Queen & Country: Operation Red Panda | Jan 18 2008
• Queen Bee | Dec 15 2005
• Red Eye, Black Eye | Jun 19 2007
• Salmon Doubts | Jan 21 2006
• Scott Bateman’s Sketchbook of Secrets & Shame | Dec 24 2006
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together | Jan 16 2008
• Sgt. Rock’s Combat Tales | Dec 15 2005
• Shangri-La | Jan 21 2006
• Sheba (series) | Mar 12 2006
• Shutterbug Follies | Dec 29 2005
• Sidescrollers | Oct 05 2006
• Simpsons Comics Madness | Sep 17 2006
• Skeleton Key (series) | Mar 19 2006
• Skinwalker | Feb 05 2006
• Sleeping Dragons | Mar 14 2006
• Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers | Apr 22 2006
• Slowpoke: Café Pompous | Apr 21 2006
• Slush Pile Cleanup: Graphic Novels | Jul 26 2008
• Slush Pile: Antiques, Ninety Candles, Tough Love | Feb 19 2008
• Slush Pile: Wonton Soup, 3 Knights in India, Iraq, Scrapyard Detectives | Jan 13 2008
• Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant | Jan 20 2006
• Sonovawitch! and Other Tales of Supernatural Law | Feb 20 2006
• Sorcerers & Secretaries Book 2 | Jul 31 2007
• Spark Generators 2 | Sep 14 2006
• Sparks: An Urban Fairytale | Mar 12 2006
• Spooked | Jan 31 2007
• SPX 2008 Graphic Novels: Slowpoke, Baby-Sitters Club 4, Soddyssey, Emiko Superstar, more | Oct 18 2008
• Subatomic | Jan 30 2006
• Supermarket | Nov 21 2006
• Talent | Jun 01 2008
• Tales of Supernatural Law | Feb 20 2006
• The Apocalipstix | Aug 03 2008
• The Awakening | Jan 13 2006
• The Bakers: Do These Toys Belong Somewhere? | Oct 23 2007
• The Cartoon History of the Modern World | Dec 24 2006
• The Circle Trilogy | Aug 31 2008
• The Clarence Principle | Mar 14 2008
• The Collected Toupydoops | Apr 16 2007
• The Complete Copybook Tales | Nov 01 2006
• The Dreaming Book 1 | Sep 27 2006
• The Fate of the Artist | Dec 21 2006
• The Good Neighbors Book One: Kin | Oct 30 2008
• The Illustrated Dracula | Sep 21 2006
• The Interman | Apr 22 2006
• The K Chronicles: I Left My Arse in San Francisco | Jul 06 2008
• The Leading Man | Mar 31 2007
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier | Nov 23 2007
• The Lindbergh Child | Nov 21 2008
• The Little Book of Hindu Deities | Dec 24 2006
• The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln | Jun 17 2006
• The Perhapanauts: First Blood | Dec 02 2006
• The Plain Janes | Jul 12 2007
• The Professor’s Daughter | Jul 16 2007
• The Ride Home | Dec 04 2007
• The Super-Scary Monster Show Featuring Little Gloomy | Jul 11 2008
• The Surrogates | Aug 01 2007
• The Tomb | Feb 04 2006
• The Vampire Brat and Other Tales of Supernatural Law | Feb 20 2006
• The Vanishers | Jan 29 2006
• The Wind in the Willows | Apr 01 2008
• Thieves & Kings (series) | Feb 19 2006
• Three Days in Europe | Jan 21 2006
• Tiki Joe Mysteries | Jun 16 2008
• Tokyopop OEL — Able to Create a Satisfying Ending? (Includes Dramacon 3 Review) | Mar 03 2008
• Tonoharu Part One | Nov 08 2008
• Toon Books Wave 2: Mo & Jo, Jack and the Box, Stinky | Nov 16 2008
• Toon Books: Benny and Penny, Otto’s Orange Day, Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons | Jul 27 2008
• Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions | Aug 13 2006
• Totally Spies Books 1 and 2 | Nov 11 2006
• Transfuzion Launches, Plans Changed | Dec 15 2007
• Transmetropolitan Revamp Plan Changes | Oct 28 2008
• True Story, Swear to God: This One Goes to 11 | Feb 20 2006
• Two-Fisted Science | Mar 14 2006
• Unholy Kinship | Dec 18 2006
• Vampire Loves | Mar 12 2008
• Walt and Skeezix | Jan 19 2006
• Waterwise | Jan 20 2006