The All-Star Superman movie comes out today: a 75-minute, PG-rated, direct-to-video animated feature, based on the celebrated Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely miniseries from a few years back, and starring James Denton as Superman and Clark Kent, and Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane. Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan–the …
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Emanata: “Morning Glories,” Types and Archetypes
Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma’s series Morning Glories is one of the very few American comic books in its category right now: an ongoing, creator-owned series, in the conventional color-pamplet format, with sizeable buzz and sales figures, that doesn’t quite belong to any established comics genre. It’s about a group of six promising …
The Comic Book Club: Jennifer Blood, Silver Surfer and Spider-Man
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Jennifer Blood and Silver Surfer, as well as Amazing Spider-Man #654.1.
DOUGLAS: It’s been very strange to watch Garth Ennis over the past …
Before Watson: Five Great Man vs. Machine Battles in Comics
Long before Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter heroically took on IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! to defend the honor of humanity against the vanguard of the inevitable robot uprising, comic book superheroes were battling evil computers and robots, and handing those metallic jerks their mechanical back panels. Here are five of the more memorable …
The Five Graphic Novels You Need to Read for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds comes out tomorrow in North America for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Some of the Marvel Comics characters in the console fighting game are fairly big names: we assume Spider-Man and the Hulk don’t need much of an introduction. But other playable Marvel characters may not be quite as familiar. Here’s …
Emanata: What Superhero Comics Look Like
Osborn #3 arrived this week with no particular fanfare: the middle episode of a five-issue miniseries that spins out of Amazing Spider-Man, it’s the kind of secondary superhero comic book that doesn’t tend to get a lot of attention. Still, it’s one of the most entertaining comics of the week, a tightly condensed, intensely creepy little …
The Comic Book Club: Love & Capes and Power Man & Iron Fist
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Love & Capes: Ever After and Power Man and Iron Fist.
DOUGLAS: I’ve always had a big soft spot for Thom Zahler’s superhero/rom-sitcom series …
Comic-Con International 2011 Totally Sold Out
Thinking about going to Comic-Con International 2011 this July in San Diego? Too bad. Unless you’ve managed to score tickets already, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen: all 100,000-plus spaces for attendees are now completely sold out.
Following a couple of attempts that resulted in technical meltdowns as several zillion people …
Emanata: Novels in Woodcuts, Comics in Words
I’ve been wrestling with Lynd Ward’s comics lately–staring at them, flipping through them, doubling back on them, trying to get a grasp on what’s happening on their surface and beneath it. Part of the wrestling comes from the fact that he didn’t quite think of them as comics, and they only really got gerrymandered into the comics family …
The Comic Book Club: DCU Online Legends and Scenes from an Impending Marriage
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about DC Universe Online Legends #1 and Scenes from an Impending Marriage.
DOUGLAS: DC Universe Online was officially announced in mid-2008 (and has to have been in …
“Flashpoint” and “Fear Itself”: Adding Up the Tie-Ins
Marvel and DC are already gearing up for this year’s big superhero comics crossover events. The shape of Marvel’s Fear Itself is not yet entirely clear, but it’ll involve a central seven-issue miniseries by Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen (which launches in April), a seven-issue secondary miniseries called Fear Itself: The Home Front, a …
Emanata: The Future of the Comic Book Store
The announcement this week that comiXology would be offering brick-and-mortar comic book stores an opportunity to become its “digital storefront affiliates” is probably not actually that big a deal. Digital storefronts are not often particularly useful, or well-trafficked, unless they offer something that’s unavailable elsewhere. That’s …