Just about every comics creator I’ve talked to recently has been thinking, at least a little, about how mobile digital technology is going to affect their work. For anyone who’s going to be at Comic-Con International next week, I’m going to be moderating a panel on “Comics After Paper” on Saturday the 24th, with creators Dylan Meconis, …
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, Graeme McMillan and Lev Grossman discuss the second issue of X-Men: Second Coming, Superman #701 and Darwyn Cooke’s one-shot The Man with the Getaway Face.
DOUGLAS: I came …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (due out next Tuesday) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, …
Comic-Con International San Diego has now announced its full programming schedule for the July 21-25 event. We’ll be offering our picks of the less humongous panels early next week, but here are some of the gigantic events that you’ll want to plan your day around if you want to get into them. There are going to be some major lines for …
Over the past few years, Matt Kindt has written and drawn a series of intriguing, ambitious graphic novels that combine genre-story premises (he’s particularly fond of World War II-era spy stories) with ingenious comics-formalist gestures and clever design. Revolver, out later this week from Vertigo, isn’t about espionage, but it’s a …
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 first issues of Neal Adams’ Batman: Odyssey and Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Scarlet.
DOUGLAS: I’ll say this for Batman: Odyssey: it …
There are days when I admire people who don’t have a serious, unkickable superhero-comics habit, and there are other days when I feel a little sorry for people who don’t get to enjoy things like Batman and Robin #13. It’s the best episode thus far of Grant Morrison’s ongoing Batman project: the one in which the dominoes he’s been lining …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (due out July 20) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan …
The third and final issue of Marvel’s Girl Comics anthology comes out next Wednesday–and one reason we’re particularly psyched about it is that it includes a short story by the mighty writer/artist Carla Speed McNeil, the creator of the fantastic, long-running “aboriginal SF” series Finder (whose “Torch” story arc is currently a …
With all the hullabaloo about Superman and Wonder Woman in the last few weeks, it’s worth remembering that the longest-surviving superhero indigenous to a comic book appeared 75 years ago this summer. New Fun was the first comic book series to consist entirely of original material. Its sixth issue, cover-dated October 1935 and published …
“The awful thing about life is this,” as Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game put it: “everyone has their reasons.” That’s the premise behind two excellent superhero comics published this week, neither of which actually have any superheroes in them. Action Comics #890, Paul Cornell and Pete Woods’ first issue of their run, and Matt …
