The Catalyst is a delightfully dark jaunt through multiple genres, put together by a who's-who of fantastic indie comic creators.

A Kickstarter bonus one-shot issue of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stand-in IP created by Shane Bookman in the comic, Drawing Blood.

With the undeniable charm of its roguish protagonist, Drawing Blood is captivating.

Writer: Ryan O'Sullivan Art: Andrea Mutti Publisher: Vault Comics This review only covers the 5th issue. For more discussion of previous issues, click here. WHAT IS IT? A moody, meta, medium-breaking comic disguised as horror fantasy with an unreliable narrator who is a plagiarist who gets in way over his head. It's a little like Dante's Inferno with a Twin Peaks aesthetic and a Memento narrative. It also has a pinch of Breaking Bad, as the creators see just how evil they can

Writer: Ryan O'Sullivan Art: Andrea Mutti Publisher: Vault Comics This review only covers the 4th issue. For more discussion of previous issues, click here. WHAT IS IT? A moody, meta, medium-breaking comic disguised as horror fantasy with an unreliable narrator, who is a plagiarist who gets in way over his head. It's a little like Dante's Inferno with a Twin Peaks aesthetic and a Memento narrative. It also has a pinch of Breaking Bad, as the creators see just how evil they ca

Writer: Ryan O'Sullivan Art: Andrea Mutti Publisher: Vault Comics This review only covers the first 2 issues. Because of that, we don't have insight into the full story arc, so this review might look a little different than my other ones of entire volumes. WHAT IS IT? A kind of modern retelling of Dante's Inferno if Dante were replaced by a self-righteous, hack writer with delusions of grandeur. It feels like a classic "in too deep" adventure story if it were narrated over by