Tag: superheroes

Rachel Skarsten and Meagan Tandy tell us what fans can expect from one of the coolest looking characters the DC Universe has to offer.

Featuring Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, Green Lantern, and other DC superheroes.

John Seven reviews 'Marble Cake' and 'The No Ones #1'

"I mean, literally, European history is kicking the shit out of each other and invading everyone else. This is an example of what I want to talk about with Peter Cannon, by the way."

By David Seidman (Mildly NSFW images below.) A good costume can help to make a comics character a star. In a visual medium like comics, a costume tells a huge amount about a character. So how can...

Superhero comics promise a certain amount of action and personal drama based on the idea that anyone who would become a superhero would put themselves out there. Not so Coco Picard’s Fortuna, the focus...

It's no secret that while his lawyer Arthur Lieberman was alive, Stan Lee loved pacting.  So many pacts, they wouldn't all fit on a page - animated projects, movie projects, book projects, talking vegetable projects....

After months of teases and an ARG website rollout, this week Lion Forge is announcing details of Catalyst Prime, its new superhero universe, which is being spearheaded by editor Joe Illidge and rolling out...

While it has a prominent location on 77th Street facing Central Park West, the New-York Historical Society is one of the overlooked gems among New York City Museums. It might be because of that...

Guest post by T Campbell. Can the soul of Western civilization be found in a pair of red briefs? Was our first great superhero at his strongest, his noblest, his superest, before modern interpretations stripped him of his underwear? Is there a connection? A generation ago, when those red briefs were an inseparable part of Superman’s design, he was the most familiar superhero by a wide margin, leading the field in film adaptations,[1] headlining cartoon shows,[2] and even winning over famous media critics who were fiction writers in their own right. Even now, if you believe superheroes have anything to say to American culture or the human experience, you sort of have to start with him, because he’s the prototype. Umberto Eco called him “the representative of all his similars” [3] and Harlan Ellison described him as one of “only five fictional creations known to every man, woman, and child on the planet.”[4] Born in the early hours of a visual, easily reproduced medium, he was popular enough to codify most of what being a superhero meant. The Oxford English Dictionary even mentions him by name in its definition of “superhero”:

Scotland has been missing some good superheroes recently, and especially giant hulking shirtless ginger ones. Luckily that's all changed thanks to Saltire, a new character created by writer John Ferguson, who'll be the star...

The best superhero stories are all about inspiring people, and the first trailer for Burka Avenger, the first-ever animated series produced in Pakistan, certainly does that. Created by Haroon - one of the bigger...