Griffin’s Picks for the week of 3/18/2026
1: Animan HC - Drawn & Quarterly
Written and drawn by Anouk Ricard, an award winning French cartoonist, most well known for her children’s series Anna and Froga. Animan is an irreverent look at a man who uses his astounding abilities to help animals in more ways than one.
Francis is a pet therapist just like any other, except for the fact that he’s able to transform himself into any animal due to a freak mosquito incident at the zoo when he was a child. Now he loves watercolor painting, lives with his beautiful frog girlfriend, Fabienne, and solves pet related mysteries as Animan! But every superhero needs an archnemesis and Animan’s is Objecto, with the ability to transform into objects.
This was the first thing that I’ve read by Anouk Ricard and I’ll be keeping my eyes out for any more translations by Drawn and Quarterly because I had a fantastic time with this book. It’s silly, wholesome and the stakes feel low enough that I can just turn my brain off and laugh at Ricard’s goofy storytelling and art. I’m hoping that this isn’t the last that we get to see of Animan because there’s room for endless Ace Ventura type stories here.
2: Lobo #1 - DC
Lobo #1 written by Skottie Young with art by Jorge Corona (local artist by the way!) is one of three DC Next Level titles releasing this week (Batwoman and Deathstroke: The Terminator are the other two). If you haven’t read any Lobo before, this is a good place to jump in and get a feel for the character before the Supergirl movie releases later this year.
Much like in our own universe, anti-heroes have never been as big in the DC universe as they are right now and in order to capitalize on this popularity, the Omni Mega+ Entertainment Corp has monopolized the bounty hunting industry to effectively own Lobo and his livelihood. When he goes to confront this mega-corporation, it’s revealed that they have bigger plans for Lobo and let him know that it’s all a ploy for them to begin filming a Lobo reality TV show.
Lobo holds a special place in my heart, every year around the holidays I read the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special and it never gets old. With that being said, I’m pretty protective of the character and haven’t been too satisfied with any Lobo that’s not written by Alan Grant but I thought that Skottie Young came close enough to capturing Grant’s ability to write the Main Man. My biggest problem with this issue was that it felt too decompressed and the reality show reveal should have happened a lot earlier in the issue. ‘
3: Marc Spector: Moon Knight #2 - Marvel
This is the second issue of Jed MacKay’s fourth volume of Moon Knight, this time around with Dev Pramanik doing the art. You’ll probably be confused if you jumped in here and you aren’t familiar with the character but if you have a basic understanding then you’ll be fine picking up #1 and this week's issue.
Moon Knight has been trapped by his archnemesis Raul Bushman with the help of Mr. Fear but as Moon Knight becomes increasingly violent in his attempts to escape, he acquires the assistance of one of his most recent enemies, Zodiac to get out. But Zodiac’s help isn’t altruistic, he wants to prove that he’s actually Moon Knight's number one nemesis.
MacKay has really left an impression on Moon Knight’s legacy and this issue feels like he’s addressing the totality of the character’s history as well as his own historic run. Like I said, if you’re somewhat familiar with Moon Knight you can jump in here but there’s a whole lot of contextual stuff that might go over your head if you haven’t been keeping up.