There is no catharsis or happy ending in Nod Away, only a nightmare-inducing set of sci-fi vignettes drawn in chilling chiaroscuro.īoy’s Club, by Matt Furie (Fantagraphics) There are echoes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the biggest similarity to Kubrick lies in Cotter’s understanding that there is nothing more terrifying than experiencing something that lies beyond the limits of your comprehension. It’s hard to describe what, exactly, happens in Nod Away, but it has something to do with a worldwide, telepathic, “mental peer-to-peer file-sharing” network an attempt to cross into another dimension to stave off overpopulation a man wandering through a barren landscape and a woman sent to a space station to soothe a mysterious child. In the first few pages of Nod Away, a staccato procession of words appears in a series of circles dribbling down the page: “Limit / the / bane / of / all / sentenced / to / bear / the / burden / of / sentience.” That unsettlingly disjointed sentence fragment is a decent summation of the message of the story.
Nod Away, by Joshua Cotter (Fantagraphics)
Okay, enough with the rules let’s get to the books. We’re also limiting ourselves to North American comics. and Marvel’s Vision, both of which you should absolutely be reading). However, because these have to be bound volumes, there are plenty of great monthly series on the stands right now that we’re not including because they haven’t yet been compiled (for example: apologies to Valiant’s 4001 A.D. As such, the volumes can contain material initially published in the past, but we’re eschewing anything collecting very old stories (sorry, The Complete Peanuts), as well as reprints of existing volumes (like the reissue of Leanne Shapton’s masterful Was She Pretty?). Here’s a list of great stuff from the year so far, in no particular order.īut first, some nitpicky rules: This is a list of bound volumes, which can mean anything from self-contained graphic novels to compilations of previously serialized issues. DC Comics, suffering under eternal rival Marvel’s market dominance, has launched an ambitious quasi-reboot called “Rebirth” Marvel has followed 2015’s lucrative “Secret Wars” event with an array of intriguing new titles and independent publishers are cranking out high-quality product across the board. But creatively, there’s cause for excitement. Financially, there’s been a bit of panic: According to analyst John Jackson Miller, sales are down compared to this time last year across a wide array of indicators, from units sold to dollars made. The year 2016 has been a wild one for the comics industry. Excerpts from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Patience, and The Nameless City.
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