John Constantine got married this week, to no particular fanfare. It happened in Hellblazer #275, an oversized issue with a 38-page story by writer Peter Milligan and penciller Giuseppe Camuncoli. The bride has the very Milliganian name of Epiphany Greaves; the real wedding takes place after a fake wedding, and the mechanics of the story [...]
There’s scarcely a black line to be found in the Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens’ graphic novel The Wrong Place, which is a little bit startling. It’s almost entirely executed in watercolors and ink-wash–blobs of color floating in space. There are no panel borders: some panels just sort of fade into the page, others end at [...]
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 Batman: The Return, Batman Inc. and The Extremist.
Comics about pop music are a tempting, vexing proposition. You can tell stories about bands (D.M.C., Greatest Hits); you can try to build narratives around lyrics (Comic Book Tattoo); you can make fantastic comics about the subcultures that arise around music, and the way people respond to it (Scott Pilgrim, Hate). But it’s nearly impossible [...]
