About Matt Battaglia

Creator and columnist Matt Battaglia is the executive producer at Free the People and an award-winning documentarian whose work in comics started with coloring for BOOM! Studios and Roche Limit at Image Comics. His solo works include Ghosts of the Carousel and House on Fire .

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Transformers Issue #1 (2023), Skybound Entertainment. Words by Daniel Warren Johnson. Art by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer.
January 25, 2024
Daniel Warren Johnson’s Transformers series is a welcome breath of fresh air that got me hooked in the way only monthly comics can.
Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) faces Megatron (Frank Welker) in Transformers: The Movie (1986), Marvel Productions
January 11, 2024
Lately, I’ve been attempting to excavate the childhood memories of my favorite fictional franchises and Transformers simply checks every box.
REBEL MOON. Sofia Boutella stars as Kora, the reluctant hero from a peaceful colony who is about to find she's her people's last hope, in Zack Snyder's REBEL MOON. Cr. Clay Enos/Netflix © 2023
January 11, 2024
Rebel Moon Part One: A Child Of Fire is disappointing and empty — a cover of Star Wars and Seven Samurai that can’t measure up to any of them.
Batman Gargoyle of Gotham Book One (2023), DC. Words by Rafael Grampa. Art by Rafael Grampa. Colors by Matheus Lopes. Cover by Dave Finch
January 5, 2024
Rafael Grampa art elevates Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham to a level befitting DC Black Label, but it lags in other respects.
Where The Body Was (2023), Image Comics. Words by Ed Brubaker. Art by Sean Phillips
January 2, 2024
Where the Body Was feels like an almost straight-up character study drama that is approachable for both comic readers and non-comic readers.
Donatello goes "Oops" after kicking a thug in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of The Ooze (1991), New Line Cinema
December 26, 2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is an example of the franchise’s long history of malleable characters.
Ronin Book II Issue #2 (2023), Frank Miller Presents. Words by Frank Miller. Art by Frank Miller, Phillip Tan, and Daniel Henriques
December 15, 2023
In this column I make some book recommendations, wondering why no one seems to be talking about Frank Miller’s fantastic Ronin: Book II.
The Killer. Michael Fassbender as an assassin in The Killer. Cr. Netflix ©2023. / The Killer Vol. 1 Issue #1 "Long Fire, Part One" (2006), Archaia. Words by Matz, art by Luc Jacamon.
December 6, 2023
In this column I intend to share some thoughts about The Killer (both book and movie) and then follow it up with a few comic recommendations.
Nameless #1 Variant by Tony Moore
December 28, 2015
Have you read Nameless? What a wonderfully illustrated totally nonsensical book. Who pays for this shit? Does Morrison actually write […]
Roche Limit Clandestiny
July 22, 2015
The current ‘conversation’ (if we call anything on Twitter that…) is that artists do the lion’s share of the work and get the least credit when it comes to interviews, press, and the chart seen above. So ok, why is that, and what can be done to fix it?