Monstress Has the Best Cat in Comics Right Now
Monstress is a comic-book series where incredibly messed-up things happen. We’re talking child slavery, lynchings and…
The Fix Is A Comic Book About The World’s Worst Criminals
The Fix starts with a great high-concept opening: the march of technology has made reliable, old-school, brute force…
Out This Week, A Comic Book Where A Black Street Dude and A White Racist Get Superpowers
People hate Superman because he’s an alien. The X-Men get giant robots sicced on them because they’re mutants. Racial…
In Nowhere Men, Scientists Are the New Pop Idols
Rock and roll and science are commonly thought of as polar opposites: one sexy and dangerous, the other nerdy and…
Huck Is Like Superman Mashed Together With Forrest Gump
The idea of a Superman-like figure dropping into the ‘real’ world—more like ours, in that it’s not filled with…
Monstress Is A Gorgeous Comic Book About Racism, War and Slavery
Everybody has a little bit of caged, writhing terribleness inside of them, frightening for what it can reveal about…
The Best New Comic of the Month Is a Bloody Bible Story
“And how come you ain’t dead?” “‘Cause God’s a fucking asshole, that’s why.” Sunday school, this is not.
Bad Things Happen in a New Comic Where a Cop Secretly Practices Witchcraft
Cops work with facts. Evidence comes from things they can see, feel, and hear. But Detective Rowan Black has a foot in…
In Sex Criminals, There’s No Such Thing as Being a Pervert
When it started two years ago, Sex Criminals seemed like it was going to be a crime caper comic with a lot of…
Bitch Planet Gives Patriarchy a Feminist Middle Finger
Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the…
The Wicked + The Divine Is The Perfect Comic About Loving Something Too Much
I never thought a comic book would make me feel sorry for Katy Perry. But The Wicked + The Divine generated some real…
A Man Who Can’t Die Is the Perfect Private Eye for a Dirty Los Angeles
Do you miss Angel? You remember it, right? The Buffy spinoff where the hunky vampire-with-a-soul was a PI who worked…
One of Comics’ Best Writers Has America and Canada Fighting an Ugly War
We don’t know why the United States Canada are at war in We Stand on Guard #1. But it sure seems like America is the…
Reminder: Saga Is One of the Best Comic Books in the Entire Universe
I’ve been taking Saga for granted. Some of you have been taking Saga for granted. Let’s not do that. This comic book is…
Descender Is A Comic You Should Read if You Like Mass Effect
Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. Imagine the universe of Mass Effect…
The Visual Evolution of Spawn
Todd McFarlane's demonic anti-hero comic Spawn is reaching its anniversary #250 issue this month and Image is not only…
You Can Finally Read Alan Moore's Out-of-Print Superhero Masterpiece
Sure, you know about Alan Moore's must-read work on Watchmen, From Hell or Swamp Thing. But one of his earliest…
Kotaku's Favorite Comics from 2013
2013's pretty much over and, boy, was it ever a great year for comics. Here's what I and other Kotaku staffers loved…
Sexy Spies, Kids Trained to Kill and Other Kinds of Comic-Book Love
When’s the right time for a kid to learn how to shoot a sniper rifle? What’s your kid up to when you’re not looking?…
The Great New Comic You Should Buy Tomorrow Is 'Pretty Deadly'
Time was, there were loads of rootin’, tootin’ cowboy comics on spinner racks everywhere. But none of those books were…