A review by jcstokes95
Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology by Rich Johnson, Kendra Boileau

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3.25

The value of this anthology is it makes you feel a lot less alone in how you thought about Covid in the 2020. Some of these stories will probably remind you of some vivid memory you have from the intensity of 2020. While Covid is by no means over, this does feel very specific to the beginnings of it; which at times gives you a little bit of dread. Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, because it's released so close to the events, much of the themes repeats and it's not organized in any particular way. This makes it a bit weaker of an anthology. I'd be really interested to see this revisited down the line and more heavily edited and organized. While individual comics here are strong and have a point of view, the overall collection sometimes lacks one. 

I do really appreciate getting to sample a wide breadth of art styles and found a few folks I will explore more from. Favorites were Between Two Worlds, How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic, The Iron Lung at Enders Lab, Sort of Together & Mostly Apart and Pandemic Precarities. Between Two Worlds got at the heart of most of my feelings about the three years in just a few pages. Pieces like this really got me in my feelings throughout this collection. A lot of what's in here feels like Covid 'slice of life' material but I think I really enjoyed the pieces that had something deeper to convey, but I know that may not be true of every comic reader. 
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