4 Kids Walk into a Bank #1 is a painfully funny return to the awkwardness of middle school wrapped around a crime mystery story that is just beginning to heat up. It’s like if you dropped the cast of Freaks and Geeks sans stoners into the middle of Reservoir Dogs.
We Can Never Go Home #4 has a vibrant purple and black color palette from Tyler Boss and explores the joy and pain of teenage emotions in an authentic way through Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon’s occasionally brutal and occasionally witty dialogue. The story is held together by Josh Hood’s artwork as he can switch from a last conversation between a father and daughter surrounded by black bars to a teenager having his first real sexual experience in more open space to the chases and fights part of the series’ overarching plot
We Can Never Go Home #4 may tread some familiar superhero and conspiracy beats, but the creative team of Rosenberg, Kindlon, and Boss make them seem fresh through unique panel layouts, different-from-the norm coloring, and nuanced characterization.