The Wicked + The Divine was the series that sold me on the pitch and then tried pretty hard to lose me on the second issue. The third issue was decent enough, but this fourth issue sticks the landing. What I’m not sure of is this: did it stick the landing because it was slowly building to it, or in spite of getting lost a little bit on the way there.

Otis Frampton’s Oddly Normal has been a delightful fairy tale excursion from the industry-wide grim ‘n gritty that has taken hold. In this world of wacky witchy aunts and accidental spells of banishment and transdimensional sieves, people of all ages will find the things that they loved about The Wizard of Oz and A Wrinkle in Time and dare I say even some Tim Burton-esque creepies, lovingly addressed in a very original story.

After being relatively optimistic about 7th Sword’s change-up in artists early on in its run, I think that has caught up to it in the fifth issue. There’s a lot I liked about this issue in terms of the story and artwork, but they brought in a new artist to do layouts whose background is animation storyboarding—you’d think that would be a natural transition, but it shows itself to be an entirely different beast.