Allow me to channel my inner Rod Serling for a moment, picture if you will, that you’re waiting in line for your coffee, you bump into an attractive stranger, and after a few minutes of pleasant conversation, you an your new acquaintance exchange names and phone numbers. Now, imagine that same night you’re at your computer, and on a whim you do a quick Facebook search using the name on your napkin. They wrote their name and number on a napkin, did I not mention that? Anyway, there they are beaming from a profile picture, just as you remembered them. Suddenly you realize that they like all the wrong music; they have terrible...

People cannot stop talking about Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples. What are Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples doing that works so well? I think that perhaps its because Vaughn and Staples are making the familiar extraordinary. Vaughn has taken on a Herculean task. He is presenting modern attitudes and social practices as our modern mythology. Saga is the story of all of us, not the story of the exception to the rule. It takes the most human parts of our experience and forces us to consider them outside of the scope of our everyday existence. What choice do we have? We have to love it. Vaughn has presented us with things that we...

In the series Fatale, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips published by Image Comics; the main character Josephine, or “Jo,” is a moral gray area. Is she a hero, or a villain? To begin, there should be no ambiguity regarding the meaning of the term, “femme fatale,” which translated from French literally reads, “disastrous woman.” The dictionary goes on to define the term  as, “a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations,” or “a woman who attracts men by an aura of charm and mystery.” Using this definition as a rubric, how does Brubaker’s leading...