Peter Bagge is one of American comics’ most cutting satirists–the cruel mastermind behind Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd and Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me, among others. His first full-on original graphic novel, Other Lives, comes out from Vertigo this Wednesday; it’s a typically black comedy about the way people reinvent their …
The first issue of Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver’s S.H.I.E.L.D. is one of the most visually spectacular mainstream comics of the last few months. The premise of Hickman’s story is that Marvel’s espionage organization S.H.I.E.L.D. isn’t just a relic of the Cold War era: it’s actually a secret society of scientists that’s been …
At a panel Saturday evening at WonderCon, the immense comic book convention held this past weekend at San Franciso’s Moscone Center, a cluster of comics bloggers asserted that the most popular features on their sites, by far, are lists. So, because blog readers demanded it, here’s a list of observations from this year’s
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The final issue of Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis’s Blackest Night came out this week, and it’s a profoundly reactionary comic book–a story that doesn’t just roll back a chunk of its fictional setting to the way it was decades ago, but argues that actual change isn’t meaningful or possible.
Blackest Night was deftly put together in a lot …
We’re very fond of Spanish cartoonist Emma Rios’ work on the recent Strange miniseries–check out her Flickr gallery–and we’ve always kind of had a thing for Firestar from the old Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends cartoon. Now we get to see both of them at the same time: a Firestar one-shot, drawn by Rios and written by Sean McKeever, …
Comics about pop music are a tempting, vexing proposition. You can tell stories about bands (D.M.C., Greatest Hits); you can try to build narratives around lyrics (Comic Book Tattoo); you can make fantastic comics about the subcultures that arise around music, and the way people respond to it (Scott Pilgrim, Hate). But it’s nearly …
Douglas Wolk: I hate to keep picking on Mark Millar–although maybe I should, since a guest poster on Firedoglake thought I was defending the parts of Kick-Ass that bugged me most–but Nemesis #1 kept reminding me of that old Onion headline, “Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People.” It’s the first issue of Millar’s …
There was a bit of a surprise in this morning’s Marvel solicitation announcements: they’re finally going to be publishing Marvelman comics. They’re just not the ones people actually want to read.
Marvel announced last year that they’d acquired the rights to Marvelman, the superhero created by Mick Anglo back in the ’50s as a British …
When the Sentry first appeared in 2000, he was a clever idea: Bob Roberts, one of Marvel’s most famous characters in the ’60s, the star of Startling Stories–oh, wait, you’ve never heard of him? That’s because his archenemy the Void forced him to use his incredible telepathic powers to make everyone forget him! And the Void is actually …
One of the coolest-looking superhero projects of this spring is Spider-Man: Fever, a three-issue miniseries written and drawn by Brendan McCarthy, the psychedelic mastermind behind Swimini Purpose and Rogan Gosh. It’s a tribute to Steve Ditko’s ’60s-era Day-Glo weirdness, co-starring another one of Ditko’s visual creations, Dr. Strange. …
Techland attended the eighth annual Emerald City ComiCon, held this past weekend at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Click through this gallery for pictures of some of the many con attendees who were wearing the logos of Lantern Corps from Blackest Night, as well a few notes from the show floor.
Pictured above: Eric …
Spoilers for Punisher Max and Justice League: Cry for Justice are lurking below. Consider yourself warned.
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It’s been pointed out by a few of my associates over at the Savage Critics (among other people) that there have been an awful lot of superhero comics in the last few months involving children and babies getting killed. The …