In honor of April Fool’s Day, here’s a sampling of seven of the funniest comics out there. They may not (or may) be the deepest or most beautiful in other ways–they’re just the ones that have made me laugh hardest.
There’s a little trend in comics blogs that’s turned up over the past few months: Tumblrs devoted to a specific creator’s work, reprinting a single panel or a single page at a time, out of their original context. A Moment of Moore, one of the more prominent ones, is dedicated to Alan Moore’s work. Whoever’s [...]
As rumors start to fly about Alan Moore, famous for taking his name off movie adaptations of his Watchmen, From Hell and V For Vendetta, writing not just an original movie but also a potential television spin-off, the question may seem to be, has he finally sold out to the Hollywood Machine? But it seems [...]
Over at Bleeding Cool, Adi Tantimedh has an extensive interview with Alan Moore in which Moore airs his current grievances with the comics industry, and tells his side of the story of DC Comics’ recent attempt to get his go-ahead to publish prequels and sequels to Watchmen created by by what was described to him [...]
If Watchmen co-creator – and famously irascible bastard – Alan Moore is to be believed, DC Comics has plans for sequels to the classic superhero series that changed the genre forever, and DC co-publisher Dan Didio’s own comments on the subject aren’t exactly as neutral as he probably intended.
Here’s the flip side of what I wrote about last week: there are certain serial comics I adore that I’m happy to see ended and don’t ever want to continue. Comics readers are used to the idea that any character or scenario they like can go on forever–that there’s always another first-rate story to be [...]
Back in 1983, Alan Moore and Alan Davis created a one-off, six-page story for the British weekly comic book 2000 A.D.: “D.R. & Quinch Have Fun On Earth,” in which a pair of alien juvenile delinquents (who bore a certain resemblance to National Lampoon‘s “O.C. & Stiggs”) wreak havoc with time travel. (You can read [...]
Because gaming moves at the speed of light, it’s easy to gloss over or outright miss the quirky, bizarre or just plain interesting elements that go into the games we obsess over. Continue? will be where we dig back into the used bins and back-catalogue stacks to talk about the trends, personalities and uniqueness that [...]
There was a bit of a surprise in this morning’s Marvel solicitation announcements: they’re finally going to be publishing Marvelman comics. They’re just not the ones people actually want to read.
