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4 weeks ago | doomrocket.substack.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket's love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: the first collected volume of Adam de Souza's online strip, Blind Alley, available now. Collected like this, putting a year's worth of strips in one place instead of them showing up like Cloudbreak in the digital tumult, the story of Blind Alley comes together. Slowly, droplets gather until the leaf spills over.

1 month ago | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

BasketWriter: Paco MoccandIllustrator: Marie DerambureLetterer: Steph BulanteEditors: Sara Hagstrom and Steph BulantePublisher: Lucky Pocket Press / $25Spring 2025Basket is exactly what you want. The team, scrappy. Chances of winning the big game, slim. Girls, crushing it. There are dueling mysteries driving the first half, who is the coach meeting outside of practice, and what exactly is up with Ines?

1 month ago | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

This was my first time at PAX East, or a games convention of any kind. In Seaport, near downtown, in Boston. In the nicest convention center I’ve ever seen. Video games, tabletop and board games, RPGs, PC gaming, trading card games, a running competition between two things for absolute most of them in giant piles everywhere: dice and Pokémon. Look, normally I’m writing these about MICE. That’s my con background, C2E2, BKCF. Pittsburgh Comicon back when Evan Dorkin MC’d the Harvey Awards.

2 months ago | us5.campaign-archive.com | Christopher Chiu-Tabet |Taimur Dar |Arpad Okay

Wednesday Comics Reviews: I WAS A FASHION SCHOOL SERIAL KILLER and PLAGUE HOUSE offer scary new #1sI Was a Fashion School Serial Killer and Plague House are just two of the new series launching this week that get reviews!By Beat Staff on Apr 02, 2025 11:00 amVal Kilmer, star of BATMAN FOREVER and many more, dead at 65The actor, whose other work included Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, Tombstone, Heat, and The Prince of Egypt, passed away from pneumonia.

2 months ago | comicsbeat.com | Arpad Okay

Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas No. 1Cartoonist: Sanikah PhawdeSelf-published / $20September 2024The first lesson comes within the opening pages of Sanikah Phawde’s comic about marraige: if you drink the wedding juice, you will die. But Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas isn’t a fable. Phawde isn’t subject to a witch’s curse, they’re just allergic to kiwis. Dad’s on the three-way video chat harrumphing at bringing up something so morbid when planning the ceremony. The stage is set.