This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan and Evan Narcisse talk about Brightest Day Vol. 1 and Bring the Thunder #1.
To celebrate the premiere of The Walking Dead on AMC this Sunday, we here at Techland will be picking out our favorite formerly deceased monsters across comics, games, film and other media. The zombie myth’s been around for centuries and has been reinterpreted almost as much as vampire lore. At their most basic, though, zombies [...]
It’s a zombie moment. Grey, shambling, undead ex-people are the most durable monster fantasy of right now, and hat goes double for comics, from The Walking Dead on down through Blackest Night and the unkillable Marvel Zombies franchise. Zombie stories are stories about assimilation–being robbed of one’s individuality and absorbed into a mindless mass that [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
I’m not sure why I think video game comics are going to be good. I keep trying (Gears of War, Metal Gear, Street Fighter, Halo) and I keep getting burned. This week God of War and Dragon Age were both forgettable as well. What franchises out there might make a good comic? Final Fantasy seems [...]
The final issue of Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis’s Blackest Night came out this week, and it’s a profoundly reactionary comic book–a story that doesn’t just roll back a chunk of its fictional setting to the way it was decades ago, but argues that actual change isn’t meaningful or possible.
Techland attended the eighth annual Emerald City ComiCon, held this past weekend at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Click through this gallery for pictures of some of the many con attendees who were wearing the logos of Lantern Corps from Blackest Night, as well a few notes from the show floor.
The Question #37 came out this week–the first issue of that series to be published in twenty years. It’s the last of the one-off revivals DC’s been publishing over the past month as tie-ins with their Blackest Night event. This one, though, is special: it actually is effectively a new issue of the odd, intense [...]
