Comics Anatomy: Shade, The Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special

By Harry Kassen — Hello and welcome back to Comics Anatomy. This will be the last of the charity commissions and I wanted to thank you all for reading these. I hope you all enjoyed this series-within-a-series (to crib a DC marketing term) as much as I have. It’s been an interesting challenge starting with the title and finding something to write about as opposed to starting with both of those things already. I also want to thank the people who donated money and chose books for me, both for giving money to people in need and also for choosing such an interesting array of books for me to write about.

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Comics Anatomy: THE FIX, when artwork does the heaviest lifting

By Harry Kassen — Welcome back to another Comics Anatomy Charity Commission. I’ll be doing these through the Summer and then returning to the previous setup in the Fall. I want to thank Sean for his request for From Hell for last month’s article and I want to thank everyone who read and shared the article itself. I had a great time writing it and I’m proud of the work I did preparing for it.

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Comics Anatomy Charity Commissions: FROM HELL

By Harry Kassen — Hello everyone and welcome back to Comics Anatomy. To those who read last month’s article: thank you, and I hope you found it interesting. Last month was a request based on a giveaway I ran last year (very overdue) and this month begins the Comics Anatomy Charity Commissions. For this article I’ll be writing about From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, as requested by fellow critic Sean Dillon.

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THE WILD STORM by Ellis and Davis-Hunt - COMICS ANATOMY

By Harry Kassen — Hello from quarantine. I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. Due to the pandemic, and the related economic crisis, some plans I had in place for this column have changed, and I want to explain what the next few months are going to look like. I’ve been really pleased with the little experiment that I began this year, bringing in guest writers to write about things they see in some of their favorite comics.

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No One's Rose #1 - Comics Anatomy

By Thomas Maluck — Hello Bookcase readers, I’m Thomas Maluck, filling in for Harry Kassen for this installment of Comics Anatomy. When Harry invited me to write a guest piece, I thought about different comics I hold in high esteem and what superlative qualities stood out for dissection and highlighting. I decided to pick something brand-new and of the moment - No One’s Rose from publisher Vault Comics.

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Comics Anatomy: Theomachy by Goran Gligovic

By Harry Kassen — Hello readers, Harry Kassen here. I’m back this month, but I want to thank Jed McPherson for taking the time to write an article for Comics Anatomy last month and all of you for being cool with new stuff as I work on developing this column. If anyone else would like to write a guest article, please contact me or Zack and let us know what you’re thinking.

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Comics Anatomy: Signal and noise - an exploration of world building in Transmetropolitan

By Jed McPherson — World building is difficult. If you scrimp on the details your world feels hollow and empty. You go too heavy, and you may as well be writing a Dungeons and Dragon’s source book. Now, if you’re working on a series set in the real world, you can cheat it a little. After all, we all live in the real world — it’s familiar. But for fantasy and sci-fi, you’ve got to do the work.

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Comics Anatomy: A Walk Through Hell Vol. 1, clinical horror that gives readers space to feel

By Harry Kassen — Welcome back to another year of Comics Anatomy. I want to thank everyone for making the first year so great and for coming back this year. We’ve got some exciting new things coming up in 2020 that I think are pretty cool, but we’re going to kick things off with an article about one of my favorite books to come out since I’ve been reading comics — A Walk Through Hell.

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Comics Anatomy: The Best of 21st Century Batman, Pt. 3 - Batman (1940) #656

By Harry Kassen — Hello everyone, and happy holidays. Welcome to the final installment in our 21st Century Batman series, and the final Comics Anatomy of our first year. I want to thank Zack for giving this feature a home, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou for inspiring me and teaching me, and everyone who reads these for the continued support. I have some exciting and fun things coming up for Comics Anatomy next year, and I can’t wait to share them with you, but until then, let’s talk about Batman

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