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As humongous and "earth shattering" as event comics can be they usually aren't the endgame a publisher has in mind. The payoff usually lies in what comes after, whether it's in the form of another event or a new series. Unfortunately for Marvel the pattern that's developed is a stale event followed by a great series; one example that comes to mind was Dark Avengers coming after the Secret Invasion event. Marvel's latest case, AXIS, while convoluted at times, has set the stage for Tom Taylor to play on the other side of the big two field with Superior Iron Man.

The Skeletons Outside The Closet Can Be The Most Dangerous By David Nieves Steve Niles has made a hell of a living in the horror genre....

You ever see The Raid? It's this Indonesian action movie. It (and its sequel) is probably one of the best action movies in recent memory. The plot of The Raid is ridiculously simple. One cop, in one building, against an army of criminals. It is an hour and a half of dudes wrecking shit. It's eighty minutes of brutal martial arts. It's something that's been done lots--you can describe a ridiculous number of movies that way, thanks to Die Hard--but that doesn't change the fact that it's absolutely thrilling, a marvel of craft and assured filmmaking.

Keeping up with comics is ridiculously expensive if you want to keep up with a number of titles that come out every month. Not...

Deep in the Woods by Noah van Sciver, Nic Breutzman You might  remember Deep in the Woods from it's modest Kickstarter campaign late last year,...

s!13 Life is Live kus! komiksi As someone who prefers to get stuck into a good long comic, where the opportunity to connect and associate with characters and...

I first came across L Nichols work via her comic for Retrofit: Flocks. To date, Flocks is one of the most powerful works I've read,...

Geoff Johns' final storyline as Green Lantern Chief is 'Wrath of the First Lantern', a storyline which will conclude with issue #20 of the...

I was sent the first issue of this miniseries from Art Heroes a few months ago, where it seemed like a fun, all-ages series...

17x23 Showcase Contributors: Isaac Lenkiewicz, Kyle Platts, Henry McCausland, Nick Sheehy, Joe Kessler Nobrow Press Following on from the success of the excellent Nobrow anthology- a bi-annual...

Ok, so the title's a bit dubious, but I thought it'd be nice to have a feature where we look at 3 comics, the criteria...

This week saw the release of Green Lantern #16 by Geoff Johns and Doug Mahnke, as well as Green Lantern Corps #16, by Peter...