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Interview: Comfort Love & Adam Withers Give The Uniques the Overhaul It Deserves

The Uniques chronicles the adventures of a group of young superheroes struggling with the shadows cast by the previous generation of supers, as well as their own personal tragedies. It features a large ensemble of characters in a variety of shapes, sizes, and gender expressions, and the first collected edition clocks in at about 400 pages. I talked with the two creators about the process of updating the comic and the Women in Comics spotlight.

WTF Comics Club Reads: The Sandman: Endless Nights

The WTF Comics Club is a monthly reading group for Women, Trans, and Femme-identified fans in Minneapolis. In its second year, the club is taking a look at some of the major comic book “must reads” and asking: Must we really read this?

WTF Comics Club Reads: The Dark Knight Returns

Frank Miller’s much-lauded Batman miniseries, The Dark Knight Returns, shows an aging Bruce Wayne returning to vigilante antics after years in retirement. Because what’s more exciting than a rich white guy fighting crime? A middle-aged rich white guy beating up teenagers, apparently.

WTF Comics Club Reads: Transmetropolitan

Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan is a loud, obnoxious firehose to the face. Love it or hate it, it’s a book with something to say, and it says it at maximum volume, using some pretty creative expletives. Transmet isn’t for everyone, but we have to wonder who it actually is for.

WTF Comics Club Reads: Superman: Red Son

The WTF Comics Club is a monthly reading group for Women, Trans, and Femme-identified fans in Minneapolis. In its second year, the club is taking a look at some of the major comic book “must reads” and asking: Must we really read this?

WTF Comics Club Reads: X-Men – Days of Future Past

Chris Claremont’s stories defined the X-Men, and the impact of Days of Future Past continues to echo throughout Marvel continuity to this day. So how did so much cool stuff come out of something so nonsensical?

WTF Comics Club Reads Maus

If you’ve ever had to read a comic book for school, it was probably Maus. If you’ve ever read a comic book about the Holocaust, it was probably Maus. If you ask a random person on the street to name an award-winning comic book, they will probably say Maus. Does Art Spiegelman’s fabled memoir deserve the hype? Short answer: Yes.

WTF Comics Club Reads Marvels: Less ‘Ziggy Stardust’, More ‘Best of Bowie’

In the four-issue series Marvels, published in 1994 by—you guessed it—Marvel Comics, two of the great rock stars of comics creation, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, bring us a street-level view of moments that not only defined the Marvel Universe but still influence comics to this day. It looks really great on paper.

WTF Comics Club Reads Watchmen: “Neckbeard Shenanigans” and Mansplaining

Published in 1986/87 by DC, Watchmen is listed in Time magazine's 100 Best Novels, and you’d be hard pressed to find a list of the best, most important, or must read comics that doesn’t include Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s magnum opus. That means it must be pretty good, right? Right?