This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about the Steel one-shot and the first issue of Ultimate Comics Captain America.
GRAEME: It’d be really optimistic to guess that the reason Steel #1 read so much like a generic …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. R.E.M.’s” Collapse Into Now” album isn’t due out until March, but they’ve been starting …
Marvel Comics announced this morning that Axel Alonso had been promoted to the line’s editor-in-chief. Joe Quesada, who’s been the company’s editor-in-chief since 2000, will continue on as the company’s Chief Creative Officer, a job he assumed in June. Alonso’s new job is a fairly thankless position in terms of public response: very …
It’s not even an entire workday into 2011, and we’ve already gotten an excellent piece of comics news: Fantagraphics has just announced that they’ll be publishing the complete comics of Carl Barks, in something around 30 hardcover volumes, over the next 15 years. (There’s an extensive interview about it with Fantagraphics publisher Gary …
It’s New Year’s Eve–the time for setting intentions and goals for the year ahead–and as a devoted comics reader, a few of my New Year’s resolutions this year have to do with the way I deal with my favorite medium. Here are some of the ones I’d like to follow through with in 2011.
Be more conscious about where my comics dollar is …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Batman: The Dark Knight and Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead.
DOUGLAS: I suspect Batman: The Dark Knight #1 may be the first comic of its kind in a long …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new songs from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses, and show you where you can find them as free downloads or videos.
1. The terrific Swedish electronic pop …
The first volume of European comics creators Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies, subtitled Hallorave, was one of the creepiest graphic novels of 2010–an intersecting set of short pieces about a small group of people drawn together by sex, drugs and violence in various combinations, whose horror deepens with every new connection it draws …
We don’t know a lot yet about the comic books due to appear next year–the mainstream publishers tend to play their cards close to the chest until a couple of months before release dates–but a lot of 2011’s big graphic novels have already been announced. Here are some of the ones we’re most excited about.
Takio – Brian Michael Bendis …
I’ve already published my lists of the best serial comic books and graphic novels of this year, but the joys of comics go well beyond the best specific publications. Comics are a publishing category, an aesthetic discipline, a range of intersecting subcultures; they’re also a hobby, and I can’t imagine that there’s a more consistently …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk discuss Archie #616–the Obama/Palin milkshake special.
EVAN: I haven’t picked up an Archie comic in probably close to a decade, so my response to this one has been as …
On Tuesday, we posted our list of the ten best graphic novels of 2010. But what about comic books–serials published one slim issue at a time, from the superhero mainstream to the outer limits? That’s what this list covers. For a series to qualify, there had to have been at least two issues published this calendar year.
On to the …
