A Few of My Favorite (Pandemic) Things: Comics Edition

Here are a few comics that really floated my boat over the last 16+ months…

I picked this up on a whim, and I really enjoyed it. Futures past are their own strange form of fantasy, and Blade Runner 2019 is particularly so. It emerges from the soup of the various different Blade Runners out there, along with the whole architecture of cyberpunk, once cutting edge and now increasingly conservative. Even given all that, this volume managed to weave a clever story around ability and disability, which I hadn’t expected going in.

B.P.R.D.‘s long arcs cover all sorts of highways and byways of the Mignolaverse. Though I really like individual stories in this volume or that, this collection is my favorite thus far, and it brings the long arc of the Frogs to a satisfying end.

After years of reading this or that story, I set out a while back to read all of Hellboy. I haven’t gotten there yet, but I’m still trying. I like the big arcs, and I like the small stories even more. The quiet and mysterious ones most of all. I like to see a mystery or two remain unexplained. The Crooked Man and Others is full of all of that.

Hard reading, but good. These killings were a significant part of my childhood experience, as I grew up in that place around that time, and they were always in the news. I recognized businesses and vistas in here, and this comic’s creators got the feel right, 100%.