This Week’s Comics: Afro-Futuristic Mysteries, Bible Monsters, and a Nearly-Ruined Childhood – TheStranger.com

There was a certain type of film-bro who salivated over Fight Club and Pulp Fiction and those swaggering macho symbols. (My Film II final was a fantastical retelling of the life of Robert Frost. It won an award. So there.) Over the years Ive come to develop an appreciation for those silly over-the-top depictions of masculinity as a sort of camp that speaks a language I dont fully understand. I dont think thats the intent the sideway-gun guys probably didnt mean to be funny but if theyre enjoying their filmmaking in one way and Im enjoying it in mine, hey, everyones happy so whats the problem?

Alas, there wasnt much pleasure to be wrung out of a similarly macho comic book this week, which adapts classic nursery rhymes into modern-day crime stories. Not even a familiar ludicrous swagger could save this outing; but fortunately, two other books this week offer a more surprising take on old tropes.

Thanks as always to Phoenix for sorting through this weeks new releases!

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This Week's Comics: Afro-Futuristic Mysteries, Bible Monsters, and a Nearly-Ruined Childhood - TheStranger.com