Superman has been running, under one title or another, since 1939. This week, it reaches its gala 700th issue; here’s a little history of its previous anniversary issues.
July 1948: In Superman #53, the “tenth anniversary issue” (ten years and a month since Superman had first appeared in Action Comics #1, at any rate), writer Bill …
Here it is, the sorta kinda full list of comics coming out this Wednesday. I say sorta because I’ve been leaving off the kiddie titles for months. For example, there’s an Archie and a Disney Hero Squad dropping this week. Does this interest you, our sophisticated and cultured and good looking readers? I don’t want to be presumptuous but …
Here’s the flip side of what I wrote about last week: there are certain serial comics I adore that I’m happy to see ended and don’t ever want to continue. Comics readers are used to the idea that any character or scenario they like can go on forever–that there’s always another first-rate story to be told about Earth-X or Blue Beetle or …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
