Once, Loma was an alien from the planet Meta, but she longed for more. With the Madness Coat, she came down to Earth. And Loma became a girl. But being a girl wasn’t as easy or idyllic as she thought it might be. She only made it through with the help of new friends. But […]
EXCLUSIVE: DC Young Animal’s current line winds down, but Doom Patrol will return
Two years ago at Emerald City Comic Con, Gerard Way, writer of the Eisner-winning Umbrella Academy and former lead singer of My Chemical Romance, announced that he had partnered with DC Comics to begin a new imprint called Young Animal. With the tagline “comics for dangerous humans,” Way and his collaborators set out on a quest to […]
DC ROUND-UP: SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL/WONDER WOMAN #1 is a poignant look at the plight of western women
Alex reviews this week’s DC comics, also spotlighting New Super-Man #20!
INTERVIEW: Castellucci and Zarcone reveal the Gaiman character they want SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL to meet
Over the past year, Shade, the Changing Girl has carved out a distinctive space for itself in the comics landscape. The standout book of DC Comics’ Young Animal imprint, Shade tells the story of a young Avian woman named Loma who tires of life on her home planet, Meta. A youthful obsession with Earth and the poet Rac Shade […]
DC REBORN ROUND-UP: Jack Kirby’s spirit is captured in the NEW GODS SPECIAL
Recovering from SDCC and LA hallucinations, Alex Lu takes a journey to New Genesis to review this week’s DC Comics!
SDCC ’17: Young Animal reveals crossover event beginning with DOOM PATROL/JLA
This afternoon at the DC Comics’ Young Animal panel, the the all-star team of creators including editor Jamie S. Rich, line curator and Doom Patrol writer Gerard Way, Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye writer Jon Rivera, Doom Patrol letterer Todd Klein, Mother Panic writer Jody Houser, and Shade the Changing Girl team Cecil Castellucci, […]
DC REBORN ROUND-UP: why GREEN ARROW is the comic of our political generation
Alex reviews this week’s DC Comics!
DC REBORN ROUND-UP: In BATMAN #24 and DEATHSTROKE #20, love mends the damned
In June 2016, DC Comics kicked off the start of its Rebirth initiative. After a wave of criticism surrounding the way they have treated their characters’ rich histories since 2011’s New 52 relaunch, DC has decided to rebrand. They hope that by restoring their characters’ pasts, they will restore readers’ faith in them as well. […]
Nice Art: Marguerite Sauvage Weaves Free-Spirited Dreams and Couture into SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL #7
Last month, DC Comics Bombshells artist Marguerite Sauvage drew a guest issue of Shade the Changing Girl. The title, penned by Cecil Castellucci and typically drawn by Marley Zarcone, follows the Earth-obssessed alien Loma Shade as she takes possession of a body that once belonged to a mean-spirited teenage girl. Month-to-month, Zarcone tells Shade’s story with a chaotically psychedelic […]
DC REBORN ROUND-UP: DETECTIVE COMICS #966 and BUG! THE ADVENTURES OF FORAGER #1 ponder the purpose of family
Alex reviews this week’s DC Comics!