Stephen King’s Creepshow was the first comic book I ever loved. I was given the book, an over-sized paperback, along with some superhero books. There was Rocketeer, some of Peter David’s The Incredible Hulk, Superman, and even some old school Valiant stuff. I don’t have all of those anymore, but I definitely remember a foil […]
I was shopping at Borders – let’s all take a moment to shed a tear for the fallen – when I saw it. They had a little Buffy the Vampire Display, showcasing the novel Queen of the Slayers and the latest installment of the BtVS magazine, which featured a smarmy Spike on the cover. Having […]
In comic books, superhero is the king of genres. But over time there has been strong representation of other genres like war, horror, cowboy, humor, science fiction, police, and romance. Some genres, like the family saga and literary have never found a place in comics: Odyssey can be a comic but Ulysses never will be. […]
Ever since I was a kid, I was an obsessive completist – to a fault. There were periods of time where I thought about nothing but getting every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure and vehicle. After that, it was Jurassic Park toys, and then The Lion King merch. That sort of (entirely geeky) need […]
Okay, I’ll admit it. I know I’m in the minority here, but my interest level in James Bond and characters like him – the debonair spy with cars, sex, and the mission on the mind – rests a little below absolutely none. Lady Killer, a series by powerhouse artist Joelle Jones and renegade writer Jamie […]
Quick, name a female-driven superhero movie. Sure, that’s easy: Catwoman, Elektra and Aeon Flux. Wait, I forgot to add the word successful to that request. Ah, it’s much harder, now isn’t it? Supergirl? Sure, she’s coming to CBS television this fall, but the verdict on whether she’s able to “fly” or not has yet to […]
Something magical happens every month, and I’d like to keep it that way. Eight years ago, on June 13th 2008, Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise ended a fourteen year run that spanned continents and decades, blurring the lines between what we remember about love and how it actually happened, breaking down barriers in the comics […]
With the Internet currently losing its shit over the new Deadpool trailer (and, maybe even more so the trailer for the trailer), what better time to revisit one of the Merc with a Mouth’s latest team-ups: Hawkeye vs. Deadpool. Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, written by Gerry Duggan, who was also writing the ongoing Deadpool series, gives […]
Many years before Brian Michael Bendis would induct Spider-Man and, later, Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm into the New Avengers, writer/artist Jim Starlin had Spidey and the Thing team up with the Avengers for a star-spanning battle with the brutal titan Thanos – in space! This epic team-up went down in Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2, from […]
In its first weekend out, the latest 20th Century Fox offering for slaughter racked up $25 million, coming insecond to Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, which was in its second week. That’s with 3995 theaters. Given three days, Friday to Sunday, and 30 sessions all up, that’s at best about 20 people per session on […]
During a conversation about The Brave and the Bold, Scott Tipton – Mr. Blastoff himself – described writer Bob Haney as the “mad scientist of comics” who “just did whatever the fuck he wanted.” After reading #141, which had me laughing out loud throughout at the bizarre twists and turns, that which I couldn’t imagine […]
Our modern world is a physical one. A world of gorgeous movie stars, high-end diets, and cosmetic surgery. People eat kale and water just to drop a few pounds; all in the quest for physical perfection. What if, in our visually-obsessed culture, all of this was actually achievable in one small step? In Image Comics’ […]
If her role on Agents of SHIELD is any indication, it appears that Mockingbird, played by Adrianne Palicki, is on her way toward major prominence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In hopes of a lot more Mockingbird next season, I took a look back at her first appearance in the comics. Now, while Bobbi Morse […]
