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Why Marvel’s Secret Empire Messaging Matters More Than How the Story Ends

May 5, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Secret Empire

One of the most prevalent and consistent themes in books about the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany is the belief foreign powers held that it was most important to not act rashly and judge Adolf Hitler and his peers prematurely. This is particularly prominent in Erik Larson’s work In the Garden of Beasts, which details the […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Captain America, comics, Ike Perlmutter, Marvel, Nick Spencer, Secret Empire

Comics Should Be Decent: A Discourse About Discourse

December 2, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Comics Should Be Decent

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Abhay Khosla, comics, Comics & Cola, Dan Didio, DC, Drawn & Quarterly, Eddie Berganza, Image, Kim O'Connor, Marvel, Scott Allie, Zainab Akhtar

Comics Needs to Stop Viewing Support Strictly in Financial Terms

October 28, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Mockingbird Joelle Jones Chelsea Cain

Yesterday, Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing/Executive Editor Tom Brevoort weighed in on the harassment that caused Mockingbird writer and New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Cain to leave Twitter, suggesting the support that Chelsea Cain and other targeted creatives really need is more issue sales: It’s a frustrating response to a complicated problem that’s made all […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Brian Michael Bendis, Chelsea Cain, comics, harassment, Marvel, Mockingbird, Tom Brevoort

Solving the Alex Ross Problem

September 14, 2016 By Chris Jones 2 Comments

Kingdom Come Alex Ross Justice League

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alex Ross, comics, DC, Kingdom Come, Marvel, Marvels

Questionable Comics: Nic J. Shaw and Taylor Esposito

June 7, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Nic J Shaw Questionable Comics

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, […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Chum, comics, DC, IDW, Image Comics, Marvel, Nic J Shaw, Questionable Comics, Taylor Esposito

A Tale of Two Entitlements: Is it Fandom or Comics That is Broken?

June 3, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Last year, I wrote an editorial on Airboy and accusations of transphobia that were levied at that comic’s creators. Though I mixed in criticisms I had of Airboy from issue one, the main point I tried to get across was that the best possible strategy Airboy’s creative team could take was to listen and try to understand why fans were […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Airboy, Captain America, comics, Dan Slott, Eddie Berganza, harassment, J.A. Micheline, James Robinson, Janelle Asselin, Marvel, Nick Spencer, Scott Allie, Tom Brevoort

ymmv – Character Flaws

April 19, 2016 By Ryan Lindsay Leave a Comment

Daredevil Elektra Punisher

ymmv .18 – Character Flaws A narrative that glides on rails, containing perfect characters that are faultless, is boring on every possible level. A story full of people doing dumb things– to move the plot forward because the writer is lazy or making poor choices because the writer isn’t smart enough to see the obvious– […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Daredevil, Elektra, Marvel, Punisher, Ryan K Lindsay, ymmv

Good Bad Guys: What Marvel’s Villain Problem Reveals About the MCU

February 10, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Hulk

“When was a kid, I wanted to be a Batman villain when I grew up.” – Jello Biafra By now you’ve probably heard about Marvel’s villain problem. After 12 movies and counting, Marvel studios has, despite its outrageous critical and commercial success, been pilloried across the internet for its perceived failure to establish more than […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Captain America, Civil War, comics, Film, Jello Biafra, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe

The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 1, 100-81

December 7, 2015 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

100 Best Comics of the 2010s

People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: A Drunken Dream, Aama, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Abominable Books, Abominable Charles Christopher, Abrams, Ales Kot, Best Comics of 2010s, Big Planet, Blutch, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Change, Charles Burns, Chuya Koyama, Clayton Cowles, comics, Cross Game, Crunchyroll, Das Pastoras, Dash Shaw, Drawn & Quarterly, Ed Brisson, Emily Carroll, Fantagraphics, Frederik Peeters, Gregory Wright, Ichigo Takano, Image Comics, It Never Happened Again, James Stokoe, Jason Aaron, Joe Sabino, Jordie Bellaire, Karl Kerschl, Liz Suburbia, manga, Marvel, Mitsuru Adashi, Morgan Jeske, Moto Hagio, New School, Oni Press, Orange, Pantheon, Picturebox, Reinhard Kleist, Retrofit, Riley Rossmo, Sacred Heart, Sam Alden, Scott Pilgrim, SelfMadeHero, Sloane Leong, So Long Silver Screen, Space Brothers, The Boxer, The Prince and the Sea, Thor, Uncivilized Books, Viz Media, webcomics, Wicked Chicken Queen, Wild Children, Wonton Soup, X'ed Out, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

A Chorus of Silence: On the Impossibility of Reporting on Chronic Abusers in Comics

September 8, 2015 By Nick Hanover 12 Comments

Nathan Edmondson Red Wolf

For two years, David Fairbanks and I have been investigating predatory figures in comics. We can’t tell you specifically what about. We will probably never be able to tell you anything other than the fact that it involves allegations of sexual harassment, creative theft, nonpayment of collaborators and other bad behavior. That’s because the comics […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Axel Alonso, comics, Image, Marvel, Nathan Edmondson, Red Wolf

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