Comics can be a tough business for veterans. In an industry that’s always looking for The Next Big Thing, sometimes extremely talented, reliable craftsmen can slip through the cracks. It looked like that had happened to one of my favorites, writer/artist Walt Simonson, who hadn’t been all that active in the last few years. Then […]
I’ve figured it out. I can tolerate horror in comics because I can’t be scared by the thing that jumps out of the dark. In movies and TV shows and even books to some degree, there is always that scene that is created just so a terrifying something can come out from behind the corner […]
BLASTOFF LANDS IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD Online retailer known for notable collections opens brick-and-mortar boutique After an inaugural year of making headlines with its acquisition and sale of the collections of comics from literary figures like Mark Waid, Harlan Ellison and Karl Kesel, Blastoff is pleased to announce the grand opening of its first retail […]
BLASTOFF HAS LANDED IN THE NOHO ARTS DISTRICT! GRAND OPENING EVENT!! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 11 AM – 7 PM 5118 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 (just 2 blocks south of Magnolia) (8180 980-BOOK Appearing from Noon – 3pm: Mark Waid (DAREDEVIL, KINGDOM COME) Gregg Hurwitz (BATMAN, THE SURVIVOR) Jim Krueger […]
Exciting times here at Comics 101 HQ these days, gentle readers. In fact, so much so that I’m going to break from the usual goings-on around these parts and talk about two new projects that are very near and dear to my heart, that have been in the works for months and months, and that […]
Some stories never die. Some are never finished or can be turned upside down and torn apart and told dozens of different ways. Some characters in these stories are just that compelling. They deserve hundreds of pages of examining their origins and adventures. And sometimes, well, I think writers lean on already established legends because […]
Comic books basically invented the superhero genre, and that genre spread to prose and especially movies. Comics didn’t create good-guy horror, but they made the topic a genre and gave it a home. By good-guy horror I mean horror in which the reader’s sympathies are with the monster. Naturally, Mary Shelley seems to have invented […]
Well, we’re a little more than halfway through the BEFORE WATCHMEN experiment, and while the question of whether or not the comics should have been produced at all remains one that people can argue back and forth for days on end, it has to be admitted that when it come to the creative result, this […]
It’s a curious happenstance when it comes to horror and comics: there’s one kind of monster that seems to be unique to comics, or at least more prevalent: The swamp monster. Both Marvel and DC have extremely well known “muck monsters” to their credit, both of which seeing their debut in the year 1971. Of […]
This guy has kept me awake recently. Yeah, I can’t imagine why. He actually doesn’t look as terrifying in the light of day. But. Imagine that it’s late at night, you only have one light on in the entire house, and your cats are pacing around and casting shadows on the wall and their tails […]
We’ve had a lot of fun here over the years with various issues of LOIS LANE in which Lois is either scheming to marry Superman, marrying someone else instead of Superman, or crying as someone else marries Superman. So imagine our surprise to finally find an issue of LOIS LANE where Lois actually marries the […]
As any monster-movie buff can tell you, once Universal Studios realized there was money to be made in their stable of monsters, they began loading them into films by twos and threes, in films like HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA, which would feature Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and any […]
Horror is subjective. What you find silly might scare me and vice versa. I refuse to watch slasher films like Halloween or Freddy because I know they’ll give me nightmares; most people I know find those same movies laughable. Imagery, gore, violence, the supernatural – we all react to them differently. I can’t read books […]
