Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and no one knows that better than comic fans. atthether it’s through fandom’s own addiction to the increasingly convoluted history of characters from their youth or creators’ obsession with dropping those characters into gritty, surprising scenarios, comics seems incapable of shaking its need for a nostalgic fix. In recent […]
Black Cloud #1 is a Promising Political Fantasy Bogged Down by Exposition
When you get down to it, America essentially willed itself into being a global superpower by hyping up and commodifying the collective dream of America. The Industrial Revolution saw rogues and con artists and thieves rebrand themselves as entrepreneurs, who sold their fellow Americans and the world at large on the idea of themselves as […]
Drugs & Wires is a Clever and Flashy Cyberpunk Alt-history
For the most part, I never got the appeal of alt-histories. I had nerdy high school friends who would carry around hefty Harry Turtledove tomes about “the second American civil war” or apocalyptic visions of a Nazi-run America. Given that we’re currently living in what feels like a spin on that latter alt-history, maybe I […]
Questionable Comics: Boy Akkerman and Iain Laurie
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Boy Akkerman is a Dutch artist who co-created Captain Ultimate and also co-founded the Eurocomics mag DutchMetal. What current projects are you working on? I set up a new anthology style comicmagazine called DutchMetal. It […]
All Time Comics: Crime Destroyer is an Incompetent, Garish Insult to Readers
As a dumb kid without much in the way of allowance, most of my early comics acquisitions came from the bargain bin. I was painfully out of the loop when it came to the events of the ’90s and my knowledge of comics history was fragmented and sparse, cribbed from backmatter and little yellow editor […]
Rising Sand is a Gorgeous, Intriguing Epic
Finding truly refreshing post-apocalyptic works these days is difficult, given how much more frequently they’re popping up. But Jenn Lee and Ty Dunitz’s sprawling webcomic Rising Sand is an innovative and engaging spin on the genre, taking current anxieties about global warming and impending doom and filtering them through fantasy tropes. The result is a gorgeous, well-developed […]
Questionable Comics: Paul Tucker and Stefano Gaudiano
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Up first this week is, Paul Tucker, a Canadian artist who has published comics at IDW, Comics Experience and more, and is part of Justin Gray’s current anthology project Jail Bait & Trailer Trash, […]
Extremity Manages to Make Dismemberment Poetic
There’s an ongoing joke about DC Comics being Dismemberment Comics because of the publisher’s obsession with severing characters’ limbs to prove how Mature comics are now. It’s an easy trick since we tend to have a pretty visceral reaction to any injury that gets in the way of our mobility and cleverness. We rely so […]
Questionable Comics: Michael May and James Maddox
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. This week we kick things off with Dark Horse writer Michael May. What current projects are you working on? Kill All Monsters, a graphic novel coming in July of 2017 from me, artist […]
Questionable Comics: Matthew Dunn and Alex Cormack
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. Up first this week is Matthew Dunn, an incredible artist working on a number of independent comics who has also done album covers and merchandise for bands. What current projects are you working […]
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