Next Time Around Kaylee Rowena Comics Journal editor and critic

Comics Journal editor and critic Gary Groth

the dynamic contrast emerges again

that is when he’s not dancing

the cat Guardian of the Dead in the skeleton-filled catacombs and labyrinths of director Michael Schaack’s brilliant and surprisingly graphic animated feature about a grisly series of unsolved murders among a group of domestic cats

Next Time Around Kaylee Rowena Comics Journal editor and criticBy Billy Mavreas. Published by Conundrum Press. Softcover, 64 pages, B&W, 2022 Everyone has a story. Sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where they begin. Other times, those beginnings are so utterly astonishing theyre impossible to ignore. An accident, for example, if you survive it, can be a surefire way to find the start of something newwhether its a fresh perspective or a rediscovered appreciation for the people who matter most. In Next