Remember Amazing Cynicalman minicomics? MattFeazell has only become sharper over the years, and we really like the two collections of the Cynicalman newspaper strip.
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DC finally have a Peacemaker graphic novel that can rank with his TV and film personality. Nice one Kyle Starks & steve pugh. Peacemaker Tries Hard is hilarious.
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David Simon's Book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is phenomenal, and so is Philippe Squarzoni's graphic novel adaptation. It's in two parts from First Second David Simon

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Today we look at the 1960s Green Lantern stories just before Neal Adams came aboard. Surprisingly good, and Gil Kane at his peak.
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Meka by Jean-David JD Morvan and Bengal isn't your usual big robot story. It concentrates on the people piloting, and what happens when the robot is downed and goes offline. We like it. Humanoids
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Joe Pineapples: Tin Man is out this week. 'Veering from base comedy through brutality and manipulation to existential angst is quite the journey, and Pat Mills pulls it off satisfyingly'. Plus great art from Simon Bisley and Clint Langley. 2000 AD Comics

Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garrón gets off to a really good start in Straight Out of Brooklyn, and over the next two days we review the remainder of the series.
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As every new volume is reviewed we wonder why more people aren't talking about Alone. It's stunningly imaginative young adult horror from Fabien Vehlmann and Bruno Gazzotti. The Striped Souls shifts the ground again. Cinebook

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More #AttackOnTitan reviewed today as Hajime Isayama expands the world with some stunning revelations. Female Titans? Titans in walls? It's there in Vol. 8. theslingsandarrows.com/attack-on-tita…

Why haven't we reviewed #AttackOnTitan ? We have now.
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Éric Stalner’s Cold War thriller The Route 66 List signs off in style with California. Immaculate art and a twisting plot characterise all five albums putting together a noir event over several years. Cinebook
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It's astonishing to consider a graphic novel almost a century old, but the stark wordless linocuts of Frans Masereel's The City remain relevant and evocative. The current gold standard version is from Dover Books
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We really love Lizzy Stewart's Alison, a mixed media faux biography that's insightful, delicate and touching in following the life of an artist from her mid-teens to later years. Serpent's Tail
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Amulet concludes with Waverider, which dropped six years after Supernova last month. Is it the glorious finish from Kazu Kibuishi that we all want?
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Marcello Quintanilha’s Listen, Beautiful Márcia won the 2022 prize at Angoulême International Comics Festival. Now in an oversized translation from Fantagraphics it breaks down a heartbreaking struggle representing ordinary people in Brazil.
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Mário César’s tragedy Blessed Cure concerns Acácio's struggle to balance his own identity with a desire to please his parents in the conservative Brazil in the 1960s to the 1990s. It's a heartbreaker. Soaring Penguin Press

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Mr. Freeze by Gerry Duggan and Matteo Scalera delivers the humanity and chilling truth of Victor Fries in the One Bad Day series.

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The best of the One Bad Day hardcovers spotlighting Gotham's villains? It's Catwoman by G. Willow Wilson and Jamie McKelvie.
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We're mightily impressed with the visual treat supplied by Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes. Benoît Dahan and Cyril Liéron take the title literally, yet still create an engaging mystery. @ComicsTitan
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There's no pretending most of the graphic novels associated with Marvel's King in Black crossover are masterpieces. However, the best of them, Matthew Rosenberg and Juan Ferreyra's Thunderbolts tie-in, is a lot of fun. Matthew Rosenberg
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