December 22, 2010 –
1. The ingenious …
It’s been a superb year for graphic novels–the shortlist of English-language books I’ve waved at someone at one point or another and said “you have to read this!” has about 30 titles on it. Nonetheless, end-of-year conventions demand narrowing it down to ten.
Note that this selection doesn’t include books that were mostly or entirely …
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 a particular …
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 Strange Tales II #3, Big Questions #15, and more!
DOUGLAS: Well, now we see why Marvel was playing it close to the chest with the lineup for Strange Tales II #3. …
The first issue of Stan Lee’s The Traveler introduced one of Lee’s new superheroes–a masked man who calls himself Kronus and possesses some degree of power over the flow of time–and the end of the issue saw him witnessing the death of Agent Julia Martin. But not everything is as it seems, as we find out in this exclusive preview of …
Marvel has released a handful of teasers this week for some sort of event that’s happening in April. “Do you fear… tomorrow?” is the caption on the first image, which shows Spider-Man in front of a tableau of scary newspaper headlines and a Homeland Security travel-alert color chart on red alert. (Never mind that the Homeland Security …
At the end of the first volume of Jeff Lemire’s post-apocalyptic road-buddy adventure Sweet Tooth, the candy-loving, antlered young man Gus had apparently been sold out by his mammoth, violent pal Jepperd. The second volume, In Captivity, hits bookstores this week; courtesy of Vertigo, we’ve got a preview of its opening sequence, in …
We’ve been making note of some of the major comics projects due out in 2011–keep an eye out for a preview of what’s coming up next year on Techland in a couple of weeks. But there are also a handful of projects we’re dying to see that have been in the works for months or years, and aren’t officially scheduled yet. Here are a few …
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.
GRAEME: I know it’s $9.99, but Fables #100 is how anniversary issues should be done, …
There’s been a lot of buzz this week about Batman: Arkham City, the sequel to last year’s Arkham Asylum game that’s being released sometime next year. (A new teaser trailer is floating around; the full trailer is supposed to debut this weekend.) You can’t play it yet, but if you’re looking to bone up on some comics that flesh out the …
This week sees the release of Stan Lee’s Starborn #1 from Boom! Studios. On Sunday, 87-year-old Lee and his wife Joanie celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary; Lee’s birthday is later this month. The legendary comics writer is keeping pretty busy, as octogenarians go. Here, as far as we can tell, are the projects he’s currently …
Before Steve Ditko made his name as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, he had a reputation as a versatile cartoonist–in science fiction and horror comics, as well as a handful of others–who could work incredibly quickly. He had to: his main client in the late ’50s was Charlton Comics, which paid the princely sum of $6.50 per …
