• Review: "If war is hell, Blazing Combat is heaven. …[A]lthough the subject matter is bleak, the presentation it’s been given is beautiful. This is as good as war comics get." – Rod Lott, Bookgasm
• Review: "Adam Grano’s bold cover design is the perfect complement to Fantagraphics’ comprehensive collection of [Blazing Combat]… It’s remarkable how little these stories have aged, as many cover thematic ground that resonates to this day." – Kevin Church
• Review: "Anders Nilsen's comics have the rare power to generate queasy laughter… Random cruelty, futility, ennui, and an implied assault on human complacency are the order of the day [in Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes]. When Nilsen wants you to feel his boredom, or taunt you for your own, he's merciless… Nilsen is a relentlessly interesting comics creator. …I'm looking forward to his next performance in the wasteland." – Byron Kerman, PLAYBACK:stl
• Review: "The Lagoon is a peculiar book, continually confounding the reader's expectations. It starts out in many ways like a mystery or thriller novel does… But as the book progresses, it turns into a very different beast (no pun intended); a hidden romance, a story about longings, and family relationships… [T]his is a story that feels lush and moody in a way that comics often try to be but rarely succeed… The art in The Lagoon is a beautiful, lush, textured affair from [Lilli] Carré. It's almost like a cross between Charles Burns and Craig Thompson… The Lagoon is a beautiful graphic novel, …a very solid, well-crafted book, and whatever Carré’s next project is, it’ll be one to keep an eye out for." – Greg McElhatton, Read About Comics
• Review: "I love love love Unlovable… The cover has glitter, too. LOVE it!… [Tammy] Pierce's earnest attempts to fit in at school and with her friends [are] funny and endearing, and sometimes embarrassing… Those days were such a pain in the ass, but they were the best." – MacKenzieLand
• Interview: SciFiPulse.Net talks to Greg Sadowski, editor of Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941. Choice quote: "Some have written that I chose artists strictly for their name value, but the truth is that after you’ve gone through hundreds of golden age books, the same guys stop you time after time: Cole, Eisner, Everett, Fine, Hanks, Kirby, Wolverton, and every now and then a few others. That’s how they became 'name' artists in the first place – because they were the best."
• Plug: Our pal J.R. Williams hypes Supermen! on his Flickr feed
• Things to see: Speaking of Flickr, here's a photo of Andrice Arp posing with a blowup of her cover art for Mome Vol. 15 (which I'm going to get up on the site here for pre-order real soon, I promise) from the good folks at Tugboat Press