Are American audiences quietly realizing that they don’t actually care about 3D? Hidden in the box office returns for this weekend’s Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a clue that, yes, that might actually be happening after all. Maybe.
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 Action Comics #900 and The Mighty Thor #1.
The official number on the front cover of this week’s issue of Journey Into Mystery is #622, but it’s effectively the first issue of a new series by Kieron Gillen and Dougie Braithwaite. It’s yet another event-driven revival of an old title, the kind of trademark-protecting gesture that big publishers have to do all the [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Douglas Wolk and Evan Narcisse talk about Fables #100 and the first paperback collection of Thor: The Mighty Avenger.
“I know it sounds corny, but those comics taught me what it meant to be a hero. Without them… well, maybe I wouldn’t have this ring today,” Green Lantern from Justice League
Preparations for the New York Comic Con continue as we take a closer look at some of the books that the publishers will get onto the racks in time for the show. No coincidence that there’s more Issue Number One’s than usual. Be sure to check out the rest of our coverage of the NYCC [...]
“Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.” – Dumbledore from Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Mike Williams discuss Thor #615.
It’s Panel of the Week time. This week we’ve got melting faces, anguished seers, ripped up mutants, speed fighting, and cop brutality. Let’s get started.
If you enjoyed the quirky, fast talking Iron Man, don’t expect that same tone with Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. “It’s how you dance pretty close to the edge to get the sort of modernity and the edge that ‘Iron Man’ has and the real sharp comic sensibility of those two men,” he said to Hero Complex. “So it’s [...]
