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Love everlasting from Tom King and Elsa Charretier is a twist on the classic romance genre of comics that puts our heroine first as she has a meta-textual journey through the romance tropes of the comics world. This might be King’s best ongoing work.

Bone is an all ages masterpiece, a comic I revisit and think about regularly and the comic on this list that I recommend the most highly. Al ages is a slippery term but here it applies, a reader that is 50 and a read that is 5 would both love this book wholeheartedly.

Dallas will be doing a solo episode detailing his thoughts on Grant Morrison’s new novel Luda! If you have any questions about the novel or Dallas’s thoughts about Grant send them into our email thecomicscollective@gmail.com

Famous for it’s meta narrative nature, animal man asks of the reader to engage with the characters of the book as real as they come to terms with you the reader being real and a force in their life. This mirroring of worlds is meant to enrich the experience and teach us.

This team comes together time and again in this book to use both art and writing to demonstrate how a well crafted comic can tell a message that writing or art alone couldn’t. For example in issue 7 white gutter space is used to great affect to sell the big emotions of the issue.

The biggest moment comes in the midst of the issue as Buddy Baker is handed this treatise (not unlike the comic you hold on your hands) and can’t understand it and so, views it as nothing but scribbling from a cartoon animal. These comics contain meaning you just have to see it.

By the final page it’s understood that this issue wants to draw attention to the role that art has both to the reader, and due to the last panel, back on the artist, as a comic book is able to make the same claims about salvation and life as one of the worlds most sacred texts.

“A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”

The coyote gospel is an early attempt from Grant Morrison to draw attention to the idea that comics can be something more than the “superhero claptrap” many viewed them as. A deep dive into philosophy, religion and duality this comic is full of allusion to Yeat’s second coming

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