In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This time, we were lucky enough to talk to Bob Layton–a writer, artist and editor with a very long and impressive history in the business, including several fondly-remembered runs on Iron Man, as well as a series of Hercules projects at Marvel.
What was …
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, Mike Williams and Graeme McMillan discuss Batman & Robin #14 and Amazing Spider-Man #641.
DOUGLAS: If Grant Morrison was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead wannabes. The current …
“It’s these four-dollar comics,” my dealer sighed as he flipped through my stack at the register. “The more there are of them, the worse we do.” I don’t understand, I said: if the price of a standard comic book climbed from $3 to $4 over the past year or so, that means you’re making a third more on each sale, right? “On each comic, …
Over at Bleeding Cool, Adi Tantimedh has an extensive interview with Alan Moore in which Moore airs his current grievances with the comics industry, and tells his side of the story of DC Comics’ recent attempt to get his go-ahead to publish prequels and sequels to Watchmen created by by what was described to him as “top-flight talent,” …
I spent last week in the greatest, weirdest, geekiest city in the world. Burning Man is the annual, weeklong art and culture festival that’s been going on in one form or another since the mid-’80s. It happens on a very hot, very dusty prehistoric lakebed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the week leading up to Labor Day; upwards of 50,000 …
Courtesy of Vertigo, we’ve got two exclusive previews of titles coming out this week. First up, we’ve got an excerpt from Cuban-born painter/writer Inverna Lockpez and artist Dean Haspiel’s original graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution, a semiautobiographical story of a young woman coming of age during Fidel Castro’s rise to power in the …
What this country needs is a good weekly comic book. Admittedly, the last few attempts haven’t worked out terribly well, and the most recent stab at something similar–the thrice-monthly “Brand New Day” era of Amazing Spider-Man–is drawing to a close after a series of missteps and delays that led, at one point, to two issues coming out …
Stephen DeStefano is probably best known in comics circles for his late-’80s series ‘Mazing Man, but he’s one of those artists’ artists whose reputation among their peers is high even when they’re not publishing work under their own name. Lucky in Love: A Poor Man’s History, the first of a two-volume project, is his first graphic novel. …
Wolverine #1 comes out this week–but it’s far from the first time the diminutive Canadian mutant with the big sharp claws has launched a series of his own, and it won’t be the last, either. Here’s a quick timeline of the many debuts of Wolverine.
John Jackson Miller is one of the most versatile writers in the Star Wars universe. He’s written games and comics (including the fondly received “Knights of the Old Republic” series), and will soon launch a comic book series and publish a prose novel that both star a new Jedi character a thousand years before The Phantom Menace. He’s …
This month, DC is publishing one-shot revivals of five of their old war series: Our Army at War, Weird War Tales, Our Fighting Forces, G.I. Combat and Star-Spangled War Stories. There aren’t many ongoing war comics being published these days–and all-ages war comics are a thing of the past–but from the ’50s to the ’80s, DC’s war series …
It appears that the Invisible Woman is on Death Row again. Marvel’s been making a fairly big deal out of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s forthcoming Fantastic Four story arc “Three,” in which one of the long-running superhero team will die for realsies, and they’ve been understandably hush-hush about which one. This week’s Fantastic …
