Some of you may have noticed that there was no Panel of the Week last week. I’m going to change things up a bit going forward. I’m going to be posting the POTW on Tuesdays now. This way I can feel a little less guilty about posting potentially spoiler-ish scenes just one day after books [...]
This Wednesday sees the release of Strange Tales II #1–the first of a three-issue miniseries in which various artists from the indie-comics world take on Marvel characters, a sequel to a similar miniseries published last year. Despite the Roman numeral in the new mini’s title, though, Strange Tales has intermittently been around for nearly 60 [...]
There are certain comics that are really just meant to be looked at, and Brendan McCarthy’s Spider-Man: Fever is one of them. McCarthy makes images that lunge for whatever part of the brain feels the tremor of the uncanny. His most spectacular pages elicit a giggle, then a slow stare, and then (if you’re really [...]
One of the coolest-looking superhero projects of this spring is Spider-Man: Fever, a three-issue miniseries written and drawn by Brendan McCarthy, the psychedelic mastermind behind Swimini Purpose and Rogan Gosh. It’s a tribute to Steve Ditko’s ’60s-era Day-Glo weirdness, co-starring another one of Ditko’s visual creations, Dr. Strange. The first issue doesn’t come out until [...]
