Nick Hanover: The other day, Abhay Khosla mentioned Loser City in a post about why comics don’t really excite him anymore. (We were in there as an example as people he thinks are okay and still talking about the scene in interesting ways.) It’s a messy but worthwhile read about his frustrations with the industry […]
Solving the Alex Ross Problem
For lots of people, the first and most obvious artist Alex Ross gets compared with is Norman Rockwell, but I think at this point a more fitting analogue might be director Robert Zemeckis, auteur of films like Forrest Gump and Castaway: beloved by consumers and many critics, yet also one who inspires a zealous hatred […]
Questionable Comics: Nic J. Shaw and Taylor Esposito
This week’s Questionable Comics spotlights two of comics’ best letterers, Nic J. Shaw and Taylor Esposito. Nic is up first, and has lettered projects for publishers as diverse as Image, IDW and more. What current projects are you working on? The Fix with Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber, and Joseph Ryan Hill at Image; Karma Police with Chris Lewis, […]
Supergirl Juggles “Myriad” Threads But Can’t Make Them All Stick
After taking a week off to allow us all to recover from the wonderfulness that was “World’s Finest,” Supergirl is back with its penultimate episode, “Myriad.” With its finale next week, the show has a lot to get through–or at least a lot to both resolve and tease out for a potential next season (the […]
Yellowed Pages: Hell on Earth
Back in the early ’80s, Marvel started up a Graphic Novels series, releasing standalone stories and offbeat excursions in a prestige format. It took off and as is usually the case with the Big Two, DC decided to follow suit and create their own graphic novel line, starting with a couple bizarre licensed Atari comics […]
Anatomy of a Prologue Pt. 1: Sub-Diego Embraces the Sounds of Silence
The city of San Diego sunk into the ocean with issue #15 of the Aquaman series that ran from 2003 to 2006 after what one would assume was a rather demoralizing SDCC for series editor Peter J. Tomasi and series writer Will Pfeifer. The convention center along with the Gaslamp Quarter and even the zoo […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Money In Comics
Last week, Big Trouble in Little China artist Brian Churilla made a post on his Tumblr regarding the financial realities of making comics. He writes: So you want to be a comic book artist..? Here’s some sobering information. One year. 12 issues. 264 pages. 4 covers. […] This was a strictly work-for-hire job on a […]
Top Ten Greatest Comics of All Time: da year in review
A bunch of comics came out in 2014 and I forgot about most of them. I read Seconds, that was good? Either way, here’s some comics I wanted to talk about as well as a few that made me think about MAJOR TOPICS in the comics world, which is a very important world indeed. COOL. […]
52 Pickup: What DC Could Learn from Marvel
Confession time: the last DC title I bought on a regular basis was Dial H. It was cancelled almost a year ago. I hadn’t really thought about this until today, when I was reading the AV Club’s comics reviews round-up and was blown away by Oliver Sava’s description of DC’s new weekly event comic Futures End, a series seemingly […]
Anatomy of a Page: Kamandi #1 Pg. 2
We haven’t done an Anatomy of a Page for a splash yet, so what better time to start than on Jack Kirby’s birthday? And what better Kirby splash than this incredible page that kicks off Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #1? Kamandi may not be as well remembered as some of Kirby’s other creations, but it […]