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Archives for 03/05/2014 10:59 pm

Nice Art: first look at a page of Walt Simonsons’s Ragnarök

03/05/2014 10:59 pm by

Nice Art: first look at a page of Walt Simonsons’s Ragnarökhttp://ift.tt/1kzkDiE Tweet Walt Simonson’s new book from IDW is coming out this summer and the pitch is as simple as it is irresistible. It’s called Ragnarök, and it is Simonson’s take on the original Norse Mythology. Considering what he did with this raw material in […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Comics, The Beat

Review: Marvel’s got backstory in New Batch of #1s (Moon Knight, Magneto, Wolverine & The X-Men)

03/05/2014 6:48 pm by Todd Allen

Review: Marvel’s got backstory in New Batch of #1s (Moon Knight, Magneto, Wolverine & The X-Men)

Marvel released three new #1s this week.  Revivals of Moon Knight and Magneto and a new first issue of Wolverine & The X-men that is little more than a renumbering.  Reading them in a single sitting, the interesting thing was observing how each title handled the issue of backstory.  Marvel has a tendency to tie […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Marvel, Reviews, Top News

Kelly Angel: “Put a tiny hat on a snake and people go crazy” [Interview]

03/05/2014 5:34 pm by

Kelly Angel: “Put a tiny hat on a snake and people go crazy” [Interview]http://ift.tt/1f7RxyS Tweet Kelly Angel is the writer and artist of Anything About Nothing, a webcomic which describes itself better than I ever could. But I shall describe it anyway! A collection of strips, longer-form comics, illustrations and worries about her cats, Anything […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Comics, The Beat

Nice Art: first look at a page of Walt Simonsons’s Ragnarök

03/05/2014 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Nice Art: first look at a page of Walt Simonsons’s Ragnarök

Walt Simonson’s new book from IDW is coming out this summer and the pitch is as simple as it is irresistible. It’s called Ragnarök, and it is Simonson’s take on the original Norse Mythology. Considering what he did with this raw material in his beloved run on Thor, this should be a treat.

Filed Under: Art, IDW, Top News Tagged With: Art, IDW, ragnarok, Top News, Walt Simonson

The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’

03/05/2014 4:31 pm by

The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’http://ift.tt/1q6y8HA Tweet Upon first impression of Fumio Obata’s new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck with a lot of similar impressions that arose whilst reading a related, albeit a hastily associated work, Glyn Dillon’s Nao of Brown. Sure, both recount stories about a Japanese woman […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Comics, The Beat

Lebron shows what it is really like to wear a superhero mask

03/05/2014 2:12 pm by

Lebron shows what it is really like to wear a superhero maskhttp://ift.tt/1f6YzUx Tweet I don’t even watch basketball, but while passing TVs of late I noticed some guy playing basketball who seemed to be wearing a sinister mask that made him look like Doctor Doom’s henchman. Turns out it’s Lebron James, who broke his nose […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Comics, The Beat

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/14: Mystery bullet found in former comics shop

03/05/2014 1:13 pm by

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/14: Mystery bullet found in former comics shophttp://ift.tt/1dqLnNN Tweet § I bet you thought the Michael George murder case was over. The former comics shop owner was tried twice for killing his wife in 1990, and convicted in 2011 after years of legal proceedings. But one little shard of the past may […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Comics, The Beat

Kelly Angel: “Put a tiny hat on a snake and people go crazy” [Interview]

03/05/2014 12:00 pm by Steve Morris

Kelly Angel: “Put a tiny hat on a snake and people go crazy” [Interview]

Kelly Angel is the writer and artist of Anything About Nothing, a webcomic which describes itself better than I ever could. But I shall describe it anyway! A collection of strips, longer-form comics, illustrations and worries about her cats, Anything About Nothing is one of the biggest and most popular web series on Tapastic. Down […]

Filed Under: Digital Comics, Interviews, Top News, Webcomics Tagged With: Digital Comics, Interviews, Kelly Angel, Tapastic, Webcomics

The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’

03/05/2014 11:30 am by Jessica Lee

The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’

Just So Happens By Fumio Obata Published by Jonathan Cape Buy This Book Upon first impression of Fumio Obata’s new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck with a lot of similar impressions that arose whilst reading a related, albeit a hastily associated work, Glyn Dillon’s Nao of Brown. Sure, both recount stories about […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Indies, Reviews, Small Presses, Writing Tagged With: Indies, Reviews, Small Presses

Lebron shows what it is really like to wear a superhero mask

03/05/2014 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Lebron shows what it is really like to wear a superhero mask

I don’t even watch basketball, but while passing TVs of late I noticed some guy playing basketball who seemed to be wearing a sinister mask that made him look like Doctor Doom’s henchman. Turns out it’s Lebron James, who broke his nose a few weeks ago and has been wearing a protective device since then. […]

Filed Under: Fashion, Sports, Top News Tagged With: Fashion, Sports, Top News

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