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a spectacularly unnerving story and any long term reader knows that that s about the highest recommendation i can give for a comic 8 if you can find it chicago people check the shops leave a comment reviews tagged i candy ruby carter permalink posted by kevin update for 6 18 26 june 18 2026 new review today for bury me already the new graphic novel by julia wertz which also prompted me to clean up the random characters from some of her old reviews because that s how long i ve been reviewing her stuff here leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin wertz julia bury me already june 18 2026 website bury me already note there s no sample image for this review because i didn t want to crack the spine of my fancy new hardcover to get it yeah i admitted it there s also the fact that i would have a very hard time sampling just one page so this keeps me from having to choose oh hey the review is starting now if you ve been around this website for any length of time or comics at all you already know about julia wertz i do this thing where i review comics for people and then drop out of reviewing their graphic novels once they get successful on the almost certainly wrong assumption that the comics journal and other fancier review sites can handle it but dammit i can t let this one go by without talking about it a bit because it s the best thing she s done yet and boy howdy is that ever saying something first if you ve only ever read my reviews of her work and not her actual work shame on you every book she s put out that i didn t talk about impossible people museum of mistakes etc is worth getting and they re all on my bookshelf i m ashamed to admit that i briefly hesitated on this one because i m a childless weirdo and this is all about julia deciding to have a child i thought it might not connect with me as much as her other work reader i couldn t have been more wrong i haven t laughed out loud which i spell out because it s true this much while reading a graphic novel since maybe hot dog taste test by lisa hanawalt and that one is meant to be all jokes this is the true story of her deciding to have a child the trouble with actually having that child excruciating details about pregnancy and giving birth and the differences between living with the baby through his various stages of development well up until about age 4 because this is a printed book and it had to stop somewhere if you re like me and wonder what compels people to have children in this broken circling the drain world you d better believe that she gets into it and you d better believe that those doubts never really go away but there s also a tiny human around that s constantly doing and saying incredible things which is a big help julia also gets into everything else that was happening in her life while this was going on but she somehow manages to do it without embarrassing anybody too much or revealing too much personal information which is a hell of a skill her older brother gets hit with some of his previously mentioned in other comics graphic novels mental health issues again and she manages to avoid saying most of what went on with him while confining it more to her reactions and how it affected her during the pregnancy and early years of the baby i also hope that josh writes a book about his experiences because she s somehow only scratched the surface with her stories of him oh and all of this happened in the early days of the pandemic meaning that she had to do most of it alone even her husband couldn t come along with her to most of her appointments and oh the american health care system is thoroughly covered here and if you don t think you re mad enough about it yet reading this one will somehow turn that loathing dial up another few notches her book is a lot more linear and coherent than this review but i have to once again point out this shit if funny consistently uproariously did i really hurt my back laughing level of funny and when i say this shit you d better believe there s plenty of that involved in an open discussion about a new baby i thought that after reading this book i d probably recommend it mostly for new or prospective parents but no that s too limiting humans who like julia s work this is her best book yet and you need to read this humans who haven t read her work sigh there s still time and this is a fine place to start 32 leave a comment reviews tagged bury me already julia wertz permalink posted by kevin update for 6 16 26 june 16 2026 new review today for unrest by jurijs tatarkins no i m not completely sure how to pronounce that first name either leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin tatarkins jurijs unrest june 16 2026 website unrest do you mean to tell me that i ve been reviewing mini kus books for over a decade now maybe closer to two and my first time hearing about this latvian artist is through a random buy online baffling this is a good old collection of several stories which we ve all established as the best format for mini comics well i ve established it and since i m not taking votes from the outside world that means it s settled first up is headache a haunting tale about all of the things that the artist never got around to doing in their life leading up to learning a skill that would make it all possible maybe next up is spring song which perfectly captures the feeling of endless hopelessness during the winter months all leading up to the moment that hope starts to shine through again cellular is about his obsession with his phone which he shares with most of the rest of the population this was a story that could have gotten old in a hurry but he veered off in a unique way that i didn t see coming finally there s white spider which is all about change and letting go or it s partially about that i m not the artist and you should never fully trust a reviewer who tells you what a comic is about there s also one more story that i liked quite a bit but i have to leave at least one surprise for anybody who wants to check this out right this is a solid collection of stories and it manages to avoid being too maudlin while still covering some depressing and realistic due to this stupid world themes and like the best of the mini comics it s cheap enough that you can buy it without being worried about missing a meal 5 leave a comment reviews tagged jurijs tatarkins unrest permalink posted by kevin update for 6 10 26 june 10 2026 new review today for dirt 3 by ethan best the first so far of the columbus comics with an easy way to buy it online low bar cleared leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin best ethan dirt 3 june 10 2026 website dirt 3 it might be time to start looking a nice quiet home to put me in because i completely forgot about buying the previous issue of this series and reviewing it at space last year and almost bought that issue again for my recent trip to columbus but i didn t i bought the most recent issue so i should be able to take care of feeding and clothing myself for a few more years yet like the previous issue this one also has a series of short stories which is pretty much my favorite type of mini big ongoing stories don t work well with the sporadic publishing schedule of most minis and a single story covering the whole mini can be good or bad but multiple stories well there s pretty much always gold in there somewhere this one starts off with a story of condor blue an intergalactic bounty hunter detective i ve rarely been this conflicted about not spoiling the ending to a story because i really do love it so so i ll just say that this one ends like i wish most dramatic confrontations with bad guys in a movie would end if you can puzzle out the actual ending from that congratulations next up is a story about the bogman who is you guessed a swamp creature also mixed up in this is a young lady who s looking for love and finds it in a very strange place but how is her father and the torch wielding mob going to take the romance then there s the story of the kids who always sit on the bench during their basketball games finally having enough and taking a bunch of steroids to try to level the playing field but these particular steroids have some serious side effects finally there s ug tar the destroyer which is basically a three page conan parody but at least it s a funny one and more like the cover says but i ll let the single page stories be surprises for you it s funny it s gross it s occasionally alarming give it a chance says i and since he s selling bundles of the first three issues of this series and since i already like 2 and 3 it wouldn t be the biggest gamble in the world to give the whole bundle a shot 8 18 for the bundle leave a comment reviews tagged dirt ethan best permalink posted by kevin update for 6 8 26 june 8 2026 new review today for the undad photographic memory by stu rase does that mean that i m making this week a theme week for the laughing ogre comics i bought on my recent trip no but that s a reasonable guess so don t feel bad about thinking that way leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin rase stu the undad photographic memory june 8 2026 website the undad photographic memory i ended up buying five comics from laughing ogre during my recent trip to columbus 6 26 future readers or maybe past readers who are very freaked out right now and so far i m 0 for 2 on reading comics that have active websites but hey at least this time around i was able to link to his active instagram page so if you d like to check out his comic maybe contact him there and see what you can find out this one has a solid premise what if a dad had been turned into a zombie but was calm enough to be able to still be around his family tied up to a tree in the backyard granted but able to mostly control his urges things start off with a distraught woman putting up missing posters for her daughter while undad was playing with his own daughter in the backyard she recognizes the missing girl as a classmate who was kind of a jerk to her but hey somebody should at least try to find this terrible kid they end up checking out a boarded up grocery store with a very stark warning written outside of it which naturally leads to a zombie attack but are they regular brain eating zombies or also kind of nice zombies there s a fun little moral dilemma involved or at least there is for the member of the search party who s still capable of higher thought from there they can think of one other place to search but it s chained up and checking it out doesn t look like a great idea either how far is this girl willing to go to rescue a kid who isn t even her friend if you re looking for a deep lore dive of ok so what is civilization like with zombies wandering around or if this one guy can be tamed can that happen with all of them then there are probably other comics out there for you but this one was a sweet self contained story about what s left of a dad trying to get along in the world and his family trying to navigate what s left of the guy and hey it s full color so if you have 4 and can find a copy there are probably some left at laughing ogre as i m typing this check it out 4 leave a comment reviews tagged stu rase the undad permalink posted by kevin update for 6 5 26 june 5 2026 sneaking in a late review on a friday here s a new one for later alligator by aidan o doherty leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin o doherty aidan later alligator june 5 2026 website later alligator oh small press comics never change i picked this up at laughing ogre during a recent visit to columbus no contact info in the comic sigh this happens a lot to the internet there s a game on steam called later alligator that takes up all of the search results double sigh ok again that s a fairly unique name let s just search by that there s one result for an instagram page using that name with no comics imagery visible but at least the name matches exactly so try contacting that guy if you re interested once again i plea to an uncaring universe if you d like somebody to be able to buy your comics make it easy on them so for the rest of you who might be near the columbus area and might find yourself in laughing ogre who had a couple copies of this left i think as of 6 26 on with the review actually this one is pretty simple do you think it s ok to make a comic purely to get to the punchline that is the title of said comic if so you re in luck this one is all about an investigator who goes down into the sewer to investigate some strange happenings he s looking for a pair of troublemakers who live in the sewers but when he finds them he sees that they ve both been shot one of them is still alive and with their dying breath they manage to point out the murderer which is right around where the troubles begin for our investigator if you re going to make your entire comic based around one joke at least in this case it s not a bad joke if you can find this it s worth a look but honestly if you re not in the columbus area good luck with that 5 leave a comment reviews tagged aidan o doherty later alligator permalink posted by kevin update for 6 4 26 june 4 2026 i went out of town for a few days to catch the comedy bang bang tour go see them if they re coming to your area it was a fantastic show but i still have time to put up a review or two before the week is done new review today for other by apollo baltazar leave a comment site news permalink posted by kevin baltazar apollo other june 4 2026 website other just so you know it looks like apollo s website hasn t been updated in a few years so maybe the best way to keep updated on their current work is through finding them on bluesky and assorted socials eh you all know the drill you re reading this online after all anyway how about this comic it looks like it s their latest book published in 2025 and at a base level it s the story of them trying to come up with a gender and personal identity that fully fits their needs things start off quietly with apollo in their childhood bedroom taking the time to watch the train roll by from there we see them spending time trying to fit in at school when playing house with other kids i always opted to forego personhood and be the pet when on the playground and taking that attitude into classrooms which led to more than a little bit of bullying once they got to the internet the idea of furries was introduced to them which helped for awhile but it was still tough to find real life friends to play along with them once apollo got to college and started taking testosterone things seemed to be moving in the right direction but there was always a sense that exactly what they wanted to become would be forever out of reach it s a fascinating story and it s beautifully told that last panel told while they were at their most content was still a bit of a gut punch and i ll bet there are lots of people out there 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