It's garish and insistent, like an X-rated punk show poster in a grocery store. Like those underground comics you kept away from your cleaner, nicer superhero books, lest some of the tawdriness jumped over onto the Comics Code-approved pages. This is the future of comics as once perceived from the top of the mountain of ashes and discarded pen nibsthat createdZap Comix. It's niche, but it's professionally produced niche, where baser artisticinstincts smash into the widening comics spectrum. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. And you can bet All Time Comics would make a killer comic book about it. Read Full Review

From a slightly-perplexing and contradictory villain in The Misogynist to the throwback artwork, All Time Comics: Bullwhip feels slightly less than its predecessor All Time Comics: Crime Destroyer but still feels as much of a past time as the first book did. It's telling that in launching a comic book line, Fantagraphics, Bayer, and Marra aren't aiming to imitate Brian Michael Bendis or Geoff Johns but are instead recreating comics of the past. By embracing a narrative and visual approach that feels more at home in comics that were found on an old newsstand instead of in the modern comic shop, All Time Comics: Bullwhip serves as a reminder of just how far comic storytelling (both of the superhero and non-superhero variety) has come while also showing us just how much of the charm of comics have been lost as they've become more a technological production. Read Full Review