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EL BORBAH
Charles Burns
Fantagraphics

Remember seeing Heavy Metal Comics when you were a kid? It was too weird right? Now that you’re old you can reread all the Charles Burns shit and really crap your pants. This is what grown-up comics are all about.

GORBY VANDOOBLER



MY MOST SECRET DESIRE (reprint)
Julie Doucet
Drawn & Quarterly

Don’t get me wrong. Julie Doucet is the Queen. You can’t fuck with her minute detail and gut-wrenching honesty, but Jesus, can we get some new material please? Doucet is rapidly becoming the Sarah Silverman of the comics world. We love your shit but it’s time for a new bowel movement.

LANI CORBINGER



SPANIEL RAGE
Vanessa Davis
Buenaventura Press

No panels. Done in pencil without ink. Sketchbook autobio-rant style. Lame, right? WRONG. This is the funnest comic of the year. What a fucking gem! If you don’t like this you don’t like women or girls or hanging out or humble honesty. In fact, if you don’t like this, you don’t like anything good.

VICE STAFF (ALL OF US)



APOCALYPSE NERD
Peter Bagge
Fantagraphics

Bagge’s version of a postapocalyptic world is really scary because it’s kind of plausible.

BOB GOBBLER



SURVIVE STYLE 5
Manga Entertainments

Heyo, it’s a nutty hyperactive live-action Manga type film thing starring Vinnie Jones (of X-Men: The Last Stand and other mindblowing movies) and some highkicking Japanese dudes that’s super-snazzy and colourful and techno and isn’t in the least bit annoying at all when it tries to squeeze about 15 stories into one sketchy narrative. It’s like spending an hour inside a 12-year-old boy’s head.

JELLYBEAN MCQUEEN