Douglas Wolk

My many obsessions include vegetarian cooking, the philosophy of aesthetics, James Brown, post-punk, intentional communities, ukulele tablature, fake Beatles and really long novels. Mostly, though, I'm obsessed with comic books, and I cover them for Techland.

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Emanata: A Sense of Where You Are

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 …

The 30 Most Awesome Notes on WonderCon 2010

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

Emanata: Blackest Night, Into the White

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 …

Emanata: One Chord Wonders

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 …

Emanata: Permanent Tidal Wave

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 …

Exclusive Preview: Spider-Man: Fever #2

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. …

The Lanterns of Emerald City

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 …

Emanata: Fridge Kids

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 …

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