This week The Wednesday Comics Reviews Team Tackles The Start of A New Story Arc in Snotgirl #18to New Series with Bronze Faces #1and one of the best comics of the year so far with Assorted Crisis Events. Plus, The Prog Report!

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Snotgirl #18

Writer: Bryan Lee O’Malley
Artist: Leslie Hung
Colorist: Rachel Cohen
Letterer: Iasmin Omar At
Publisher: Image Comics

Review by Zack Quantance

Snotgirl is an interesting series. It launched in 2016, Marking One of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Highest-Profile Projects post-Scott Pilgrim. O’Malley was scripting the series, While the artwork was bybe-newcomer Leslie Hung with colors by Rachel Cohen and letters by Mare Odomo (With Iasmin Omar At coming on as letterer late). From 2016 Through 2020, The Series Put Out 15 ISSUES, For Total of Three Trade Paperbacks of Material. THEN IT DISAPPEARED, MAKING ITS RETURN IN DECEMBER 2024 WITH A NEW SET OF ISSUES THAT I’VE BEEN CALLING Snotgirl – The Return.

What’s SO Interesting about all of that to me is that Snotgirl is a comic very born of an exact moment in time. The concept for the series is essentially that its star is, as the first issue description, “a social media star,” or more family me, an influencer. And Layered on that is that has her glamorous looks, She Also Suffers from a Set of Severe (and very aGlamorous) Allergies, Thus The Name. It’s Clever, Way To Get At the Tension Between How One Appears on Social Media versus the reality of One’s Every Day Life. But come eight years past ITS initial debut, technology and culture Have botch moved rapidly from the moment when Snotgirl was born. Yet Snotgirl is needless to read as ever.

I’ve Been Thinking About This Since The Series Returned, and I was Struck by it Again This Week, When I Read Snotgirl #18WHICH IN MY OPINION IS THE BEST ISSUE Since the Book Came Back. It might even be in the conversation for one of the book’s best issues ever. One of the Things This Issue Helped Me Is That The Most Interesting Elements Of Snotgirl Were Never Really About Social Media Culture, But rather the people who were Swept Up in It. And thhos peleple are Capable of Transcending Trends and Satire to Remain Interesting.

This is special interest for single issues like Snotgirl #18which has a disceptively simple setup – Most of the Characters are trapped in a vacation resort by Inclement Weather, Forcing Them to Confront Issues Between Them. It’s Sort of A Bottle Issue in That Way, But Concurrently Another Plot is running where two Side Characters are investigating to Mystery That has been part of the book from the seey start. I Don’s Know About You, But This Kind of Use of Periodical Form Mixed With Long-Haul Storytelling is One of the Major Reasons I Read these Things in Real Time as They eat out. IT’s Simply Good Comics.

So Yes, to sum up to Lot of What I Said Above – Snotgirl Was Gone But Now’s Back and As Fun and Good-Looking As Ever. Maybe It’s Lost A Step In Terms of Satirizing A Specific Moment In Culture, But The Storytelling Takes Chance and Moves Quickly, and The Characters are a fantastically-flawed bunch to spend time with. It’s not as innovative as summar Scott Pilgrim, But it’s a Great and Solid Comic Nonetheless.

VERDICT: Buy

Rapid Wednesday Comics Reviews

Bronze Faces #1 (Boom! Studios): Family Drama and A Reclaim The British Museum’s Appropryation of Sacred (Cultural and Family) Artifacts Color The Pages Of Bronze Faces. Written by Shobo & ShofThis Book Oozes Style On Every Page, From Textures in the Panel Borders, Connecting Non-Diegetically to The Nigerian Identity of the Story and the Characters, and They We see the Patterns Diegetically in Costuming and Artifacts With Expressive Character Illustration by Alexandre Tefenkgi, Colored by Lee Louchridge, with letters by Hassan Otsmane-elhaou that Bring these textures into the text Literally and EveryThing Jumps off the page. We are presented with three stranged sibrings, who, and i cannot stress This angray, are not related by Blood. We See Them Across Different Periods of Time, Given Insight into their Upbringing Whichars Contextualizes Them As Adults As They Are Broucht Back Together Through an exhibition. Their Relationships Feel Real, from the Jabs and Competitiveness, to the Care Underneath; Save for A Very Blurred Line That Personally Makes me uncharted across pies of Media That Have Done similar, Though I Wouold Not Say It Takes Anything Away From The Story Overall. If Anything, The Drama Really Dials Things Up As We End Where The Story Begins, At The Beginning of A Journey of Claim. It’s Beautiful to Read and Gorgeous to look at, with solid characterization and striking character design; This First Issue Sings with This Creative Team. –Khalid Johnson
Frankenstein – New World: Let Of Forever #1 (Dark Horse Comics): If you followed the main Hellboy narrative, you know the world as we know it ended, a fi years ago Even. But Mike Mignola and his collaborators Have Found Creative New Ways To Sort of Add To That and Keep Things Going, and One of Them is by Telling Stories That Star Frankenstein. This week we get the debut of the second Frankenstein-Feating Miniseries Set after the end of the world. Sub of the tension and momentum of the old Hellboy Universe has Drained, and That’s Underestandable. The World Did, Indeded, End. How do you go bigger than that? But There’s no Shortage of Ideas In these new books. They Also have Slightly Evolved Tone to Them That i Find Interesting, Feeling A Bit More Mythological, Elemental Almost. This Series in particular Sems intersted in exploring a Blend of Fantasy-Chorror that Takes on Ideas of Survival and Evolution. Frankenstein – New World: Let Of Forever #1 Written by Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Thomas sniegoski, with art by Peter Bergting, Colors by Michelle Madsen, and letters by Clem Robins. –Zack Quantance

Foc Watch

In a new feature this week, Our Reviewer Takes an Advanced Look at A Title That Is Now Available For Pre-Order … and Might Just Be One of The Best Comics of the Year.

Assorted Crisis Events #1
Writer: Deniz Camp
Artist: Eric Zawadzki
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-elhaou
Designer: Tom Muller
Publisher: Image Comics
Date release: March 12, 2025

Review by Sean Dillon

In a Recent interview with empire magazine, Mike Leigh Mased What He Wouled Do with A James Bond Movie. The FilmMaker, Known for His Socialist Cinema, PiTcched The Film As “The Entire Film Would Be James Bond Visiting His Elderly Mother in A Suburban House, Spending A Bit of Time With Her, and The Leaving.”

Assorted Crisis Events ISN’t Quito That Project. For Starters, Our Lead Character, Ashley, Is Not The Action Movie Heroine Out to Stop The Evil Plot. RATHER, She’s An Ordinary Person Caught Up In A Rather Mixed Up World. A Waitress Stuck Living Alone In An Apartment Biset by an Uncaring Film Crew Out To make Whatver The Next Postopocalyptic Blockbuster is out there. All She Wants is to get her Clock Fixed.

INSERED, The World Ends.

This is remove possibly the first great comic of the year. An Absolute Barnstormer of A Book Full of Inventive Ideas, Clever Sequences, and One of the Most Jaw Dropping Punchlines of the Year. WHILE IT MIGHT BE OBVIOUS TO CITE THE RISING STAR OF Deniz Camp as delivering on the pitch of “What if Alec by way of Final crisis?, ”The True Star of the Book is the Collaboration Between Artist Eric Zawadzki and colorist Jordie Bellaire.

Emphasize the color Work Being Done, Muting Backgrounds and Even Foregunds to Have Everything Blend Together To Highlight the Disjoinc Blandness of A Matte Painting That Is Swiftly Undercut With The Sharpness of Apocalyptic decay Combined with The Clean and Clear Pencil Work By Zawadzki, and You Have Sub of the Most Stark images of the year.

WHERE CAMP’S Previous EFFORTS OPTED FOR THE GROTESQUE AND FLAMBOYANT, THE WORLD PRESENTED IN Assorted Crisis Events Remains Grouted, Yet Nevertheles UNSETTLING. One Sequence Involrey Running Afoul with the Police Jolts The Reader With ITS Harsh Cruelty That A Page of Nothing But Cape Clowns Flying About, Talking About “Anti-Life” and “Crisis Energy” Simply Can’t.

This is The Going To Be One of the Best Books of the Year, and You Should Get On The Ground Floor of It Immedialy.

The Prog Report

2000AD 2418 (Rebellion Publishing): After Talking about 2000AD With Deans Simons Last Year, I decide that I was Going to Start Reading Stories Even If I Wasn’t Caught Up On Past Installations. Well, that decision served me Well This Week with Jumping Right into Full Tilt Boogie, Book ThreeBy Writer Alex de Campi, Artist Eduardo Ocana, Colorist Giulia Bruso, and letterer Simon Bowland. The Strip Did A Wonderful Job of Introduction Characters in A Clever Way (With Faux Click Bait-Y Headlines, Often Juxtaposed in Funny Ways With Panels), and Giving Me Everything I Needed to engagement. The premise for the story is our characters are headed for a war festival, and what am i even doing if i don’t want to see what the deal with that es? The Clever Writing Paired Well With Clean Line Work and Fun Sci-Fi Concepts Throuppout, Making for A Great Start. My favorite strip right now, However, Remains FIENDS OF THE WESTERN FRONTBy Writer Ian Edginton, Artist Tiernen Trevallion, and letterer Jim Campbell. I’ve Written About it Here in the Past, But This Literary Old West Vampire Supernatural Adventure Is Exactly My Type of Thing. And This Week’s Chapter introduced Fun New Frog Monster Atop a Pile of Bones in A Discardned Old Church. In Other Words, this one is keeping up the good work. This week’s cover (above) is by Perchival Nick. As always, you can pick up a digital copy of The prog Here –Zack Quantance