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 issues of Rocketeer Adventures and Gates of Gotham.
Marvel Entertainment announced this morning that they’ll be publishing a graphic novel adaptation of Richard Castle’s thriller Deadly Storm in September. On the surface of it, that sounds pretty straightforward: over the past few years, Marvel’s published adaptations of everything from Pride and Prejudice to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Stand.
There are certain things readers tend to automatically anticipate when they open a graphic novel: characters, plot, interactions, emotional paths, a sense that the story inside can somehow maps onto their own reality. One of the things great art does, though, is upend its viewers’ preconceptions about what it can and should do, and very [...]
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 Flashpoint #1 and Chew #27.
This Saturday, May 7, is the tenth annual Free Comic Book Day–a day when comic book stores across the U.S. offer an assortment of freebies, most of them all-ages-friendly, to anyone who comes in. (There’s a page at the FCBD site to locate a participating store near you; a lot of those stores are also [...]
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 Moon Knight #1 and the Taskmaster: Unthinkable collection.
Back in 2006, Frank Miller–the cartoonist behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as 300 and Sin City–announced that he would be writing and drawing a graphic novel for DC Comics called Holy Terror, in which Batman would take on al-Qaeda and face Osama bin Laden. (“Superman punched out Hitler,” he said at the [...]
It’s worth getting the story of how this whole mess started straight: one of the half-dozen backup features in this week’s Action Comics #900 is a one-off, nine-page story, written by David S. Goyer (who’s writing the screenplays for the forthcoming Superman and Batman movies) and drawn by Miguel Sepulveda, with the unpromising title “The [...]
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 Action Comics #900 and The Mighty Thor #1.
When the debut issue of Action Comics, cover-dated June 1938, introduced Superman, it became the first superhero comic book as we know it. Action has been appearing more or less monthly ever since–and sometimes more than monthly. (It was actually weekly for most of 1988.) This week, Action Comics #900 comes to comics stores, making [...]
In a 1987 conversation with Kim Thompson, the exceptional cartoonist Howard Chaykin declared that he wanted to get out of comics: “I would like very much to stop drawing, because I don’t do it out of love, I do it out of labor. I don’t want to continue making my living from motor skills.”
