The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with The Sea by Yukio Mishima Mishima is the absolute personification of 'men would do X instead of going to therapy' - when 'X' is both 'write great psychosexual drama' AND 'try take over the country with their personal cult'

Judge Dredd: And to the Sea Return by Rob Williams and Henry Flint Reading Flint 2001: looks good. He has found his level Reading Flint 2011: looks even better. Now he has found his level. Reading Flint 2020: looks amazing. OBVIOUSLY he has found his level. Reading Flint 2026: is there a ceiling?!

The Children of Light by Jean Pleyers What an odd story. Ridiculously good-looking AND ridiculously written at the same time. And yet there is something fascinating here beyond the surface SF mumbo-jumbo a story about manufactured beliefs in which gods are both real and pawns of yet greater forces.

Moon Knight: Shadows of the Moon Epic Collection by Moench, Harris et al. How high is the artistic pedigree of this c-tier bronze age title? 400 pages of Bill Sienkiewicz art AND fill-ins by Denys Cowan (plus Christie Scheele colors). Almost makes up for the mediocre writing. ALMOST.

Joseph Joubert's The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert by Joseph Joubert (translated and edited by Paul Auster). If you ever wanted to read the twitter wall of a random French philosopher this is your best shot. Mind you, I'm not sure why anyone would want to do such a thing

The Spirit Archives vol 15 by Will Eisner (and probably others). As usual, Eisner is MUCH better at schlock than he is at 'art' - and this one has some of the more well-known Spirit bits (the fight against the Octopus is a dark room). Still, a little Spirit goes a long way.

Massimo Belardinelli

The Spirit (I really wish these editions made more effort to recognise the different ghost artists and writers)

RIP Mike Wallace, his two Gotham books (the first co-written with Edwin G. Burrows) are some of my favourite history tomes. I should really get to the third one now.

City in the Desert volume 1-2 by Moro Rogers About 300 pages worth of build up to a conclusion that will probably never arrive. Even if it would... The whole thing is kinda limp, a gesture at world and character building that is never properly fulfilled

Mitch McConnell found!

Punisher Epic Collection: Survival by Grant, Mayerik, Baron and dozens more. There's a good three-parter by Abnett and Lanning that is on the right side of direct-to-video action feature. Sadly, the rest of the book is on the wrong side if it. The Punisher should've skipped the 1990s.

Three cheers to Frank Castle - the single worst undercover operator in history.

Kazuo Koike could've written the Communist Manifesto but Karl Marx couldn't etc.

Lone Wolf & Cub vol 11 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. This one has my favourite moment of the series, which makes it one of my favourite moments in comics period - Ogami Itto eating a bowl of rice. You'll understand when you reach it.

Inadvertent (Why I Write) by Karl Ove Knausgaard No one can give one satisfying answer for this question (except for the old hack-pros who just said 'money') and so he struggles in vain to appear smart and manages to kinda hit 'clever' instead.

Shade the Changing Man Omnibus vol 2 by Milligan, Bachalo, Case et al. Common wisdom is that series should've stopped at #50, but the wheels come off this bus earlier, with Bachalo basically playing a fill-in artist throughout it lurches from artist to artist and idea to idea with little direction.

Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood by James Stokoe This is volume 2. Volume 1 came out five years ago. I didn't really remember anything about it. And I doubt I'll remember anything here when / if volume 3 comes out. Lovely art for sure, but I prefer Stokoe on monsters than on martial arts.

March of the Crabs vol 1 by Arthur De Pins It's pretty unfortunate that a series called March of the Crabs, which is about actual crabs, is much better at drawing and showing humans (in a kinda mid 20th century smooth ad style) than its titular protagonists.

Lone Wolf & Cub vol 10 by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. I guess this is start of the second phase of the story, the conspiracy plot is boiling over and, more vital, Daigoro gets to spend time alone and the creators show they can tell a dramatic story with a literal baby.

Judge Dredd: Rend and Tear With Tooth and Claw by Rob Williams, RM Guera, Giulia Bruso and Annie Parkhouse. And just like that, JUST LIKE THAT, RM Guera shoots up the line of 21st century 2000AD artists. And you know what? The '21st century' qualifier isn't all that necessary.

Lady into Fox by David Garnett There are very few cases in which a prose book would be better as a short comic book story. Lady into Fox, while still pretty good as is, would be much improved if it was a creation of P. Craig Russell