Crickets #9 by Sammy Harkham. $14, 48 pages. Full color throughout.

Harkham has been making such strong comics for so long now, you can almost slip into taking his work for granted. Blood of The Virgin concluded in Crickets 8, and that work is (without question) a modern masterpiece of cartooning, fulfilling and surpassing so many art/literary/alt comics dreams and ambitions. So what's next? Well, how about a perfectly drawn, full color extrazaganza. More story/ideas/thought/beautiful cartooning in here than you're likely to find anywhere else, don't deny yourself the pleasure this comic offers.