Video Game Review: TMNT – Out of the Shadows
The 80s were and always will be such a blur to me. It wasn’t the excessive cocaine use, blinding neon colors, or the advent of Wham!’s Wake Me up Before You Go Go. No, it […]
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Drawing Classes with DC Pro Jack Purcell
I would be lying outright if I said that I didn’t have a lot of respect for the profound effect of Western comics and their history on society
The Geek Test: What’s Your Score?
I believe people of all types should be able to join in geek events and have fun whether they’re sufficiently geek credentialed or not, but I wondered how one might one go about quantitatively evaluating “geekiness”
Ben Affleck, Really?
Not everyone is delighted about the news that Ben Affleck is the new Batman for the Man of Steel sequel
Review: Ghosts and Ruins, by Ben Catmull
In recent years, a uniform aesthetic has come to characterize visual horror: Ben Catmull’s new collection of short haunted house and ghost stories, reminds us forcefully of just how powerful other visions of horror can be.
Broken Claws: When the X-Men Got Boring
This time last year, Marvel’s X-Men were mired in perhaps the most insipid event in their entire forty year history: Avengers vs. X-Men. Its name provides pretty much all of the plot: X-Men fought Avengers, […]
Comic Review: Star Trek / Doctor Who: Assimilation²
In Star Trek / Doctor Who: Assimilation Squared, we are treated with probably the most accurate comic representations of both TNG and Matt Smith era Doctor Who.
Sequential Wednesdays #19 – A Letter To Mark Millar
This is a letter to Mark Millar (Superman: Red Son, Kick-Ass, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Wanted) Dear Mark (may I call you Mark?), I would like to thank you for your contributions to the comic world – you’ve […]
When We Went To the End of the World (Again)
What a difference a punctuation mark–and nearly 40 years–makes.
Top Post de Julio en Amazing Stories
El mes pasado hubo de todo un poco en cuanto a los artículos favoritos. He aquí un recuento de los mismos LITERATURA Reseñas: Cedar Sanderson nos hace una reseña de Use Enoung Gun, antología de […]
21st Century Pulp Artist
Normally in this space I rattle on about pulp magazines. Today we’ll look at a different type of periodical: comic books. Or, if you will, graphic narratives. More specifically, we’ll examine the work of one […]
Sequential Wednesdays #18 – Comic-Con Pt II: Boston Redux
So – how does one get over the wild ride that’s the week of San Diego Comic-Con? How can anything possibly hold up to the monsoon of unique experiences offered by the Mecca-by-the-Bay? I think I […]
Planet Blüd
Just a few housekeeping items before I get into the subject of this month’s post. I am happy to announce that my latest vampire novel came out last week and is available on Amazon.com (U.S., […]
Novedades de Julio en Hispanoamérica
PERÚ Del 24 de julio hasta el 4 de agosto, se viene realizando el Lima la Feria Internacional del Libro, por lo que se aprovechan estas fechas para hacer muchas presentaciones. Así pues se presentó […]
The Pale Blue Dot
I learned of this comic book style rendering of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot soliloquy from The Huffingtonpost. I immediately got in touch with its creator – Gavin Aung Than to ask permission to reprint […]
Is the Hulk Catholic?
This is a post for the writers. And for readers who enjoy a bit of a rant. Warning: contains religion.
Sequential Wednesdays #17 – Comic-Con: A Recounting
Another year, another Comic-Con touches down in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp district and billows the hell around and makes a metric ton of people really excited. I love being one of those people and for […]
Doujinshi: Distinctly Japanese
There are many expressions of fandom that cross genres and cultures – fan fiction, fan art, even cosplay. But there is one form in particular that is distinctly Japanese, both in its origin and in […]
Review: Superman: Unbound
The DC Universe Animated Original Movies have, for the better part, been pretty successful, due primarily to their high levels of enjoyment and excellence. However I can’t find it within me to say the same […]
When Our Heroes are Villains
Don’t do this; don’t do that: a mantra of the adult world. Growing up, things were so simple: the good guys do good; the bad guys do bad. And somewhere, sometime, somebody drew the line […]
Anime Neverland
One of the challenges of liking anime is having to sometimes admit that you prefer cartoons to more “grown up” forms of entertainment. And sometimes you can defend yourself with a really adult title like […]
Villains and Heroes Come to Life in Masked Mosaic – Canadian Super Stories
Masked Mosaic – Canadian Super Stories is a wide range of stories by Canadian authors about Canadian super heroes and villains, all bound together in this beautiful anthology.
Wonder Woman’s Foreign Successors
I’ve been reading Mike Madrid’s The Supergirls, a really fantastic look at the history of superheroines in mainstream American comics. I just reached the 1970s, and the karate-chopping, white-pantsuit-wearing, depowered Wonder Woman era that came with […]
Sequential Wednesdays #16 – San Diego Comic-Con 2013
It’s finally here! I’ve attended San Diego Comic-Con in mid-July for about the past 11 years and it’s never been stale. Sure, there are lines out to Tijuana and back, but there’s really nothing wrong […]
Dinosaurs are NOT Bulletproof!
As I watched a repeat episode of Mythbusters the other night, I was reminded of one of my pet peeves in Science Fiction and Fantasy- the ineffectiveness of firearms. The Mythbusters were testing why so […]
New Volume Collects Jack Kirby’s Early SF Work
Talking animals and floating heads. You know you want it.
Sequential Wednesdays #15 – A Brawling Youth & His Magical Wardrobe
“Read the book. Help the people. You already know what to do…slay the monsters.” Paul Pope is a comic creator who has essentially calcified the notion of first-look recognition. His art of splashing squalor threatens […]
Review: Attack on Titan
Remember that really creepy painting done by Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring his Son? Well, someone in Japan thought that would be an interesting motif for an Anime series / Manga, and they were damn right. […]
The Sixth Gun and the Problems of Polish
It may seem perverse to fault a work for feeling too perfectly crafted, but the polish of Oni Press’ comics series The Sixth Gun, the sense of every element being in its ideal place, hindered […]
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