Origins: Doug Mahnke

In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we spoke with Doug Mahnke, who’s currently doing splendid pencil work every month on Green Lantern; his past credits include memorable runs on JLA, Justice League Elite and Superman: The Man of Steel, as well as the visually stunning Final Crisis: Superman [...]

Emanata: A Prospective Reader’s Guide to “Final Crisis”

Final Crisis, whose paperback edition comes out next Thursday, was as divisive a superhero comic as there’s been in years. The range of reactions to Grant Morrison’s (and a zillion artists’) massive DC-universe epic wasn’t just along the axis of readers who loved it and readers who hated it (and there were plenty at both [...]