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 Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III’s Batwoman: Elegy (see our interview with Williams) and Jason’s Werewolves of Montpellier (previewed here …
The Norwegian cartoonist Jason specializes in comics that take the premises of high-tension thrillers–zombies, assassins, time travel, bank robberies–and transform them into deadpan, reserved domestic comedies. (Also, almost all of his characters have animal heads, just because.) Werewolves of Montpellier, out today, concerns a bored …
Welcome, everyone, to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. For those who missed our earlier announcement, we’re revving 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, Techland’s …
J.H. Williams III is one of the most interesting artists working in superhero comics right now–a supremely thoughtful designer who uses variations of style as an expressive tool roughly as often as other cartoonists use panel borders. He made his name with Chase and his collaboration with Alan Moore on Promethea, drew the spectacular …
Last week, Superman hit #700; this week, it’s Wonder Woman‘s turn to reach a double-zero landmark, with #600. Here’s a quick history of the amazing Amazon’s anniversaries.
November 1950: Sensation Comics, which was effectively to Wonder Woman what Action was to Superman or Detective was to Batman, hits its 100th issue. “Wonder Woman, …
The most interesting element of DC’s announcement this week that they’re entering the digital-comics sales fray is that they’re trying out tiered pricing: selling individual full issues of serial comics for 99 cents, $1.99 or $2.99. The question of what a digital comic book is worth–and whether its value to a reader is correlated with …
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, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan discuss Superman #700 and Bart Simpson #54, spoilerishly.
DOUGLAS: Superman #700: not a good comic. The James Robinson/Bernard Chang story is eight pages …
DC announced its long-awaited digital publishing initiative this morning–and there’s a lot of interesting subtext to pull out of its announcements. (See Peter’s interview with DC’s Jim Lee and John Rood for the details.) Here are a few notes on what some elements of the announcement might mean.
Simultaneous announcements of …
Solstice: ACHIEVED. Now we’ve got three months of awesome comics before the autumnal equinox. Here are some things we’re looking forward to…
June 30:
Batwoman: Elegy
The deluxe hardcover collection of Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III’s remarkable serial. (Look for an interview with Williams here next week!)
Wonder Woman
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By way of preparation for the final volume of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s awesome “Scott Pilgrim” series, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (due out July 20), as well as the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13), the Techland Comic Book Club crew is going to be discussing each volume of the series in turn over the next six weeks–and …
Superman has been running, under one title or another, since 1939. This week, it reaches its gala 700th issue; here’s a little history of its previous anniversary issues.
July 1948: In Superman #53, the “tenth anniversary issue” (ten years and a month since Superman had first appeared in Action Comics #1, at any rate), writer Bill …
Here’s the flip side of what I wrote about last week: there are certain serial comics I adore that I’m happy to see ended and don’t ever want to continue. Comics readers are used to the idea that any character or scenario they like can go on forever–that there’s always another first-rate story to be told about Earth-X or Blue Beetle or …
