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Best Comic of the Week: Outcast #48 – Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta close off their long-running horror comic with this oversized last issue, and it’s an excellent ending. The big events all happened in the last issue, but Kirkman can be pretty sentimental, so this whole comic explores the aftermath of what happened there, and looks at what life is going to bring to Kyle, Anderson, and all the others who made up the cast of this series. Most horror movies end when the threat is finally vanquished, so I thought it was cool to see how the people of a town where just about everyone was possessed by other-dimensional beings try to put things back together. Also, both Kyle and Anderson had been put through the wringer in this book, so I feel like the closure this issue brings was needed. Outcast was always a solid read. The early issues were always a little too decompressed, but in its last years, things just kept getting tighter and tighter. Azaceta’s art is al ....
Best Comic of the Week: Rain Like Hammers #1 – Brandon Graham has a way of creating worlds that are completely incredible, but also feel very relatable. In this new series, he gives us Eugene, a worker in a moving city who doesn’t appear to have any friends or much purpose. He’s new to Elephant, having worked hard to get this posting, but now finds it pretty isolating and disenchanting. Graham never explains why all people seem to live on these roving cities, but when one of them suffers a catastrophe, we get to see more of how society appears to operate. Eugene’s days of sitting alone in his room eating food he didn’t prepare feels pretty familiar after the last year, and I’m sure a lot of people will relate to his position. Graham’s artwork is always a fantastic mixture of expansive empty landscapes and detailed personal possessions. His work here has a real Moëbius feel to it, and it looks great. I’m happy to see him working on such a personal ....