The Comic Book Club: Dark Horse Presents and Hate Annual

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issue of the relaunched Dark Horse Presents anthology and Peter Bagge’s Hate Annual #9.

Emanata: “Morning Glories,” Types and Archetypes

Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma’s series Morning Glories is one of the very few American comic books in its category right now: an ongoing, creator-owned series, in the conventional color-pamplet format, with sizeable buzz and sales figures, that doesn’t quite belong to any established comics genre. It’s about a group of six promising 16-year-olds who’ve [...]

Emanata: Ten Comics We’re Still Waiting For

We’ve been making note of some of the major comics projects due out in 2011–keep an eye out for a preview of what’s coming up next year on Techland in a couple of weeks. But there are also a handful of projects we’re dying to see that have been in the works for months or [...]

Exclusive Preview: Carla Speed McNeil Gets Kitty Pryde Drunk

The third and final issue of Marvel’s Girl Comics anthology comes out next Wednesday–and one reason we’re particularly psyched about it is that it includes a short story by the mighty writer/artist Carla Speed McNeil, the creator of the fantastic, long-running “aboriginal SF” series Finder (whose “Torch” story arc is currently a webcomic on McNeil’s [...]