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 Superman: Secret Origin #6 and Namor: The First Mutant #1.
DOUGLAS: I like the team of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank a lot; I think they bring out a …
Tom Taylor is a young Australian dramatist who’s just started writing comics in the past few years, but he’s already making a splash, writing The Authority and several indie graphic novels. American audiences probably know him best for his Star Wars comics, though; we talked to him about his upcoming plans for a galaxy far, far away.
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Over the past couple of decades, Dark Horse Comics has published hundreds of Star Wars comics and graphic novels, spanning millennia of the saga, and their publishing plans are ramping up for a big year next year. We went out to the company’s Milwaukie, Oregon headquarters to chat with editors Randy Stradley and Dave Marshall about the …
Over the past couple of decades, Dark Horse Comics has published hundreds of Star Wars comics and graphic novels, spanning millennia of the saga, and their publishing plans are ramping up for a big year next year. We went out to the company’s Milwaukie, Oregon headquarters to chat with editors Randy Stradley and Dave Marshall about the …
We never met Frank Rock until he was already dead. Sgt. Rock and Easy Company were longest-running protagonists of American war comic books: from their initial appearances in G.I. Combat and Our Army at War in 1959 to the end of Sgt. Rock in 1988, they appeared monthly for more than 28 years. By the time World War II comics became …
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 The Last Phantom #1 and Set to Sea.
DOUGLAS: The Last Phantom: Oh God. The only thing I can think of is the old joke about the guide warning his …
The newest incarnation of Dracula to appear in comics skips over the familiar Bram Stoker version of the character, concentrating instead on Vlad the Impaler–the historical figure who inspired the Dracula legend–and what might happen if he were revived today, and throws in another Transylvanian legend: the Scholomance, a secret college …
We begin our selection of musical tributes to Star Wars with the granddaddy of them all, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s immaculate “American Pie” rewrite “The Saga Begins”:
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Of course, not all Star Wars tributes are quite as articulate. The ridiculous sci-fi punk rock trio Supernova went …
Mat Johnson and Simon Gane’s graphic novel Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story is a bank-heist thriller with a surprising setting: New Orleans in the middle of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. It comes out in comics stores this Wednesday and in bookstores next week, just before the fifth anniversary of Katrina. Here’s an exclusive preview …
There are a couple of curious things about Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca’s The Invincible Iron Man #29, which came out this week–one of them obvious on a first reading, one less so. The one that’s not immediately evident is that this is a Marvel superhero comic with barely a hint of an action scene. Okay, there’s one little …
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, Lev Grossman, Mike Williams and Graeme McMillan discuss The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man and Ultimate Avengers 3 #1.
DOUGLAS: As a series, The Unwritten has never quite done it for me, even though it’s …
With the release of “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” imminent (it’s tomorrow!), Techland’s staff has been chatting pretty much constantly about how totally into it we are. Here’s what Steve Snyder, Lev Grossman, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan and Evan Narcisse have to say about it.
STEVE: Am I the only one taken aback by the critical …
