In this month’s issue of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Terra Incognita, I say goodbye to my friend Harlan Ellison. Thanks to my editor Denton Tipton and everyone at IDW Publishing for giving me the opportunity.
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Fawcett’s Rise and Fall
The colorful characters who populate the comic pages often have nothing on their creators and publishers. Fawcett Publications, the parent company of Fawcett Comics, was started by one such person. Its founder, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett (or “Captain Billy,” as he was known), was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, a police reporter and a hotelier […]
SHAZAM!
This month’s theme is a personal favorite for me, and along with it comes a new banner from our Artist-in-Residence Elena Casagrande. Enjoy!
The Short Man’s Complex, Part IV
In my humble opinion, one of the best treatments of Hank Pym was in Kurt Busiek’s and George Perez’s late-‘90s run on AVENGERS, which correctly characterized Hank Pym (calling himself Goliath again by this time) as a deeply troubled man uncertain about his role as a superhero and the propriety of his recent reconciliation with […]
The Short Man’s Complex, Part III
We continue our journey into the COMICS 101 Vault with part III of our Ant-Man coverage… By the late 1970s, and early 80s, Hank Pym as Yellowjacket had settled into a standard supporting role in AVENGERS and other Marvel books like DEFENDERS and MARVEL TEAM-UP. As time went on, Pym began to fall into periods […]
Celebrating Harlan
Last Sunday at the San Diego Comic-Con, I was honored to be invited to speak at “Harlan Ellison: A Celebration of His Life and Work.” For those of you who couldn’t make it, with your kind indulgence, here’s what I had to say about My Pal Harlan (if you’ll forgive a few corrections added here […]
The Short Man’s Complex, Part II
As we continue our struggle with the Dreaded Deadline Doom following Comic-Con, we go back to another “Comics 101 Classic” entry from the vault. Enjoy! Five months after the Wasp’s debut, Henry Pym underwent the first of his identity changes, utilizing his growth serum to grow beyond normal size as Giant-Man. At first, Pym […]
The Short Man’s Complex
The Dreaded Deadline Doom post Comic-Con has me in its clutches, so we’ll be re-running an old favorite this week. Let’s talk Ant-Man and the Wasp! Here’s a question I get a lot: “Who’s your favorite super-hero?” It’s a question I usually dread, because it requires a lot of explaining, but here we […]
The One(s) Where Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel Dated
Spider-Man has some of the most infamously bad romantic luck of any character in fiction. His love interests have, to name a few, been thrown off bridges, been on-again-off-again supervillainesses, and been retconned out of a successful marriage (still pretty bitter about that one.) But one that often gets overlooked is the extremely brief fling […]
Ms. Marvel, Then and Now, Part Three: Ms. Marvel #1 (2006)
This month, we’re taking a look at the history and present of she who bears the name of the House of Ideas… Ms. Marvel. Last time, Chris Claremont sought to make recompense for the sins of other writers – and he did a pretty thorough job of it. Now, with Ms. Marvel back where she’s […]
Conventional Warfare
That’s what the San Diego Comic-Con can start to feel like in recent years: out-and-out war. It’s you against 124,999 other folks, all of whom are trying to get to the same places and buy the same things that you are, and you wish they’d just get out of your damn way. Stop. Take a […]
A Big Return
For a lifelong Ant-Man fan like me, the release of a new Ant-Man movie is just about as close as I get to my home team being in the Super Bowl. So naturally, going into Ant-Man and the Wasp, expectations were high. I’m pleased to report that those expectations were met, and then some. Peyton […]
Everybody’s All-American
By 1941, public opinion on whether or not the U.S. should get involved in the fighting in Europe was decidedly mixed. One place that wasn’t quite so conflicted was the comic books, particularly the comics published by Timely. Having already had a taste of success with Carl Burgos’ Human Torch feature and Bill Everett’s Sub-Mariner […]