For the last year or so, Marvel’s been releasing a set of “Marvel Noir” miniseries, reimagining their characters in a ’30s setting. Now the Luke Cage Noir writing team of Mike Benson and Adam Glass are turning their attention to another era, and another character–the insane (and insanely popular) assassin Deadpool. Deadpool Pulp, drawn …
The TECHLAND comics crew was mighty enthusiastic about the first issue of I, Zombie–also known as iZombie–Chris Roberson and Michael Allred’s new Vertigo series about a perky girl detective (who has to eat brains to survive) and her monstrous pals. We’ve got an exclusive preview of the first few pages of #2, along with its cover; the …
Final Crisis, whose paperback edition comes out next Thursday, was as divisive a superhero comic as there’s been in years. The range of reactions to Grant Morrison’s (and a zillion artists’) massive DC-universe epic wasn’t just along the axis of readers who loved it and readers who hated it (and there were plenty at both extremes), but …
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, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams and Evan Narcisse discuss the Wednesday Comics hardcover collection and the second issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne.
DOUGLAS: I was excited about Wednesday Comics …
Back in 1983, Alan Moore and Alan Davis created a one-off, six-page story for the British weekly comic book 2000 A.D.: “D.R. & Quinch Have Fun On Earth,” in which a pair of alien juvenile delinquents (who bore a certain resemblance to National Lampoon‘s “O.C. & Stiggs”) wreak havoc with time travel. (You can read that original story at …
I declare today that the creators of every comic book must be able to answer these questions, or at least make work that shows they’ve considered them all.
1. Why is this a comic book?
Does it want to be a movie instead? A video game? A piece of prose? (If so, you should probably go make whatever it’s supposed to be instead. I have …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: Graeme McMillan, Douglas Wolk, Mike Williams, Peter Ha and Lev Grossman end up talking about what we picked up. This week, we discuss the first issues of the new Avengers and Legion of Super-Heroes series.
GRAEME: Avengers #1: It’s Back To The Future II! “It’s your KIDS, …
April 1958: Adventure Comics #258. Otto Binder and Al Plastino create the Legion of Super-Heroes, a club of teenage superheroes a thousand years in the future, who bring Superboy to their time and tell him that he was their inspiration. The group catches on, appearing a handful of times over the next few years.
September 1962: …
One of the great unsung comics of the JFK era is John Broome and Murphy Anderson’s “Atomic Knights,” a sequence that appeared in roughly every third issue of DC’s Strange Adventures from 1960 to 1963. The series takes place after the devastating atomic war of 1986 (remember that?), and it’s as hopeful a post-apocalyptic story as anyone’s …
Thanks to a scheduling pile-up, all three parts of Brian Michael Bendis’s conclusion to his part of the Siege crossover–Siege #4, Dark Avengers #16 and The New Avengers Finale–came out this week. (Spoilers for all of them follow.) Bendis is a fascinating and occasionally frustrating writer to follow: he’s incredibly prolific, he tends …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams, Peter Ha and Lev Grossman end up talking about what we picked up. This week, we discuss the first issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne.
DOUGLAS: I enjoyed this, but I was surprised by how straightforward a story it …
Kathryn and Stuart Immonen initially serialized their WWII art-preservation drama Moving Pictures online a few years ago. It’s now being published as a single volume by Top Shelf, which debuted at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend and will soon be in stores. If you only know the Immonens from their superhero projects …
