This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Mike Williams, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk discuss New Avengers #1 and Age of Bronze #30 (with brief digressions onto Ultimate Spider-Man and DC Universe Legacies).
MIKE: New Avengers #1: Ugh. Magic. The coolest …
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. This week, Chris Roberson, the writer of Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust and iZombie, is in the hot seat. (And scroll down for an exclusive preview of Dust to Dust #2!)
What was the first comic …
The Jonah Hex movie, starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox, opens this Friday. Here’s a quick primer on Hex’s long, twisted history in comic books.
February 1972: Jonah Hex makes his first appearance in All-Star Western #10, in a story by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga. All that’s revealed about him is that he’s a badass …
This September, Titan Books will be publishing Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee, a hardcover art book collecting work by the artist who’s now DC’s co-publisher. It will include a bunch of previously unseen pieces, including a lot of Lee’s process artwork, from rough layouts to finished pencils, an extensive interview …
A few weeks ago, Tom Spurgeon offered a juicy challenge over at The Comics Reporter: “name five past or present comics titles you think should always be published, just because it would please you to see them on the stands.” I liked thinking about series I’d want to go on forever (as opposed to going on longer than they have): there’ve …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Douglas Wolk and Evan Narcisse discuss Batman #700 and the first issue of Young Allies.
GRAEME: God, I’m getting old. I remember Batman #400, 500 and 600 all coming out and my buying them.
#700 …
In “Origins,” comics creators talk about their formative experiences with comics. Our first interviewee is writer Jason Aaron of Wolverine: Weapon X, Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine, Scalped and Punishermax. (And scroll down for a special Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine bonus!)
What was the first comic book you ever read?
I think …
Back in 2007, Vertigo announced that it would be publishing a graphic novel inspired by Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 2003 environmentalist rock opera (and multimedia wellspring) Greendale. The project has gone through a few changes since then, but the hardcover graphic novel–written by Unknown Soldier‘s Joshua Dysart, and drawn by Green …
The very distinctive (and often very weird) writing and artwork of Ted McKeever graced a lot of comics in the late ’80s and ’90s. McKeever’s only published a handful of comics in the past decade, but Shadowline recently published collected editions of some of his best early work: the miniseries Eddy Current, Transit and Metropol. And …
Jesse Reklaw is probably best known for “Slow Wave,” the weekly strip he’s been drawing for 15 years, in which he adapts his readers’ dreams into comics (and has more recently been connecting those dreams into an odd kind of extended story). In mid-September 2008, as he prepared to head off on a tour to promote the Slow Wave collection …
GRAEME: Okay, I really liked both Firefly and Serenity, but am I the only person who thought that Serenity: Float Out was really rather dull and randomly reliant on knowing the mythology for the show/movie?
LEV: NO. You are not the only person.
GRAEME: Good! I get that it’s a tie-in and everything, but if I’d never seen any of the …
Marvel announced this morning that Joe Quesada had been named as the new Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. What does that mean?
In practice, maybe not a lot–partly because his new job didn’t exist before now, and partly because he’ll still have his old one. Quesada will continue to be Marvel Comics’ editor-in-chief, a …
