It's hiring day! Dallas Comics needs a team to make their comic book empire a reality, but will anyone be up to the task? And can Syd move past the shocking revelations of last issue? Chip Zdarsky continues his award-winning series about the comic industry and how goddamn hard it is working in it. Like, wow. Who would choose this life?
Public Domain continues to offer readers an alternate point of view on the comic book industry. Satirical and razor sharp, the latest chapter continues to build momentum for Chip Zdarsky's latest venture. Read Full Review
Public Domain #8 is another good issue exploring the making of art and the crazy range of personalities involved in making comics. Zdarsky uses the ensemble cast superbly to create a compelling and always exciting comedy drama. Read Full Review
Featuring family drama, inside baseball, and nine panel grids, Public Domain continues to be a tense delight. Read Full Review
The series has reached its eighth issue. The basic novelty of Zdarskys calm, earthbound sense of characterization is starting to wear a little bit thin. Its been fun so far, but its difficult to imagine much of the rest of the series registering much of a pulse as things get started. If the series is going to continue, theres going to need to be some sort of a sense of progression that give the cast of characters a place to be that isnt just...cranking out the next issue of the series. So far Zdarski has been quite limited on any sense of conflict driving the whole thing forward. Read Full Review