Last week, images of a brand new Spider-Woman design hit the internet, compliments of Robbi Rodriguez. Calling the fan response anything less than excited would be the comics understatement of 2014. It had people like me, who are currently only reading Hawkeye, pause and take note. It had artists like Ramon Villalobos knocking out a […]
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 […]
Reviews in the Panel Panopticon: Afterlife with Archie, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and More
In Panel Panopticon, Nick Hanover and friends talk about the comics they’ve picked up for the week, good, bad or otherwise. This week, the best series on the market is an Archie zombie story, while a man with tentacle arms kicks some ass in a new Dark Horse series and Marvel puts out some major […]
Reviews in the Panel Panopticon: The Woods, Cyclops, Original Sin and More
In Panel Panopticon, Nick Hanover and friends talk about the comics they’ve picked up for the week, good, bad or otherwise. This week, Dylan Tano joins in as the two discuss a couple new creator owned series and some Marvel work that is of varying quality. The Woods #1 Written by James Tynion IV Art […]
The NSA Took My Baby Away: Fighting for Personal Freedom in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
There’s a reason why most action films situate their heroes as rogues, combating authority even as they’re saving the day. Larger than life figures gel with audiences when there’s something to ground them and while most audiences probably don’t know what it’s like to, say, save a business tower full of hostages on your day […]