Meanwhile...

This week I spoke to both halves of the Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdika creative team for Good Comics For Kids in a pair of interviews. Here's one with writer Jim Ottaviani and here's one with artist Maris Wicks. I hope you guys check the book out. It's a pretty good one, and, thanks in large part to Wicks' art and the subject matter, maybe my favorite of Ottaviani's comics since Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards.

And over at Robot 6, I have a review of Persia Blues Vol. 1, by Ohio's own Dara Naraghi and Ohio's own Brent Bowman. Even if you don't feel like reading me babble on for a few hundred more words, do click on that link just to look at the image Bowman produced at the top of the piece. Wow, that's some nice drawing.

Meanwhile...

This week at ComicsAlliance, I took a look at the Big Two's proud tradition of kicking off their modern major intra-company crossover event stories by killing off one of their characters, in light of Catwoman's recent "murder" and the promise of the death of a hero setting off next week's "Trinity War" (I did so with an assist from Andy Khouri).

And at Robot 6, I have a column of mini-reviews of all the June grahpic novel releases I didn't devote full reviews to elsewhere: Karl Stevens' Failure, Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks' Primates (on which I'll have much more later; that's where the above image is from though), Guy Delisle's A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting and Ian Doeschler's not-comics book William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope.

August 16th's Meanwhile, in Las Vegas...

In this week's Las Vegas Weekly comics column, I take a look at





and



While they are three very different books with three rather different target audiences, I'd recommend all three as very solid reads. (And yes, I do go into slightly greater detail about Black Metal then I did here.)