If you’ve been following comics or the comics media sphere for a bit, you probably already know that beloved writer Mark Waid has come under some pretty harsh and entirely justified criticism for his collaboration with JG Jones at BOOM!, Strange Fruit. You can read J.A. Micheline’s take on it at Women Write About Comics […]
Boom and Image Hypocrisy Pushes Comics Backward
It’s been an incredible few years for Boom and Image. Titles like Lumberjanes, Sex Criminals, Teen Dog, Wicked + Divine, Bee and Puppycat, Saga, the Boom Box 2014 Mix Tape, Zero… I think you get the point. Many of the best monthly titles are being produced by these two companies, and I would argue that […]
Reviews in the Panel Panopticon: Trees, Doktor Spektor and C.O.W.L
In Panel Panopticon, Nick Hanover and friends talk about the comics they’ve picked up for the week, good, bad or otherwise. This week, Warren Ellis makes a triumphant return at Image, Mark Waid can’t quite make me care about an old Gold Key character and I may have found a new favorite artist in […]