Maestro Comes to SECRET WARS and CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS
One of the more obvious teasers run by Marvel in the build up to announce Secret Wars was Dale Keown's image of Peter David's...
Review: Big Con Job is a dark, meta, fandomy heist: and I can’t look...
Palmiotti and Brady have created a group of characters instantly familiar to fans of comic books, science fiction and fantasy in general: aging TV stars wearily working the convention circuit to earn their daily bread. There's the buxom, Princess Leia-like love interest to the pulpy, Captain Kirk-ish Buck Blaster in the aptly-named series 'Treck Wars'. The pair look out into a sparse audience that has turned on them
Good luck to Tom Spurgeon on his halfway cross country move
Tom Spurgeon is relocating from New Mexico to Columbus, OH this week. I can only imagine how stressful that is—some tweets posts about...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize graphic novel nominees announced
Awards season is barreling along now. And here are the nominees for the LA Times Book Prizes, which added a graphic novel category several years back. It's a prestigious literary prize, and the winners over the years—Duncan the Wonder Dog, Finder, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life among them—have definitely lived up to the billing. This year's five books chosen include what I would almost call the usual suspects for 2014:
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/15: Area woman finds comics are not as she remembered
It would be easy to mock this Jen Teasdale-style column in the Norfolk Daily News where a woman goes to find some comics in her local bookstore but finds only superheroes and not Little Lulu, but I think there is a lesson in it. The tone is not the anger you sometimes find —"That's not MY Aquaman!"—but rather curiosity.
Duggan and Shaner Travel Back to 1872 with Famous Friends
With Agent Carter plugging up the airwaves with awesomeness, it’s time for the comics to start integrating period pieces back into the fold. Enter...
Power of fan tweets unlocks thrilling new Avengers trailer
After using the powers of social media to unlock a new trailer, we see the Avengers in a hopeless battle against Ultron! He's only one robot, what is the problem??? Nice character moments for the Black Widow and Cap, as we see the Avengers facing a host of CGI adversaries, and a ton of CGI building coming crashing down! And I nuanced take on the aqua/orange color scheme of all movies with a more roin's egg blue and light bisque patina.
Art Spiegelman’s Wordless has its final NYC performance March 13th
Wordless! is a collaboration between artist Art Spiegelman and musician Phillip Johnston—but it's really about Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, and Milt Gross. The...
All-New By Its Cover #2 (February 2015)
The column that judges a book by its cover, focusing on the month's best-designed comic covers. For the month's best-illustrated comic covers, see Best...
Aaron and Mundo keep Secret Wars Weird
Another day, another Secret Wars flavored tie-in series. Are you still with me? Good, because this is another one that is bound to raise...
Chast, Pastis and Price nominated for The Reuben Award
This year's nominees for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” have been announced by the National Cartoonists Society and they are Roz Chast, Stephen Pastis...
Entertainment Round-Up: Age of Ultron stars talk to the press, The Russos ink a...
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