Today in Yellowed Pages we explore the bizarre, shocking Foolkiller, a 1990 Marvel maxi-series by Steve Gerber and J.J. Birch that is either a searing condemnation of white male rage or an over-the-top anti-PC fantasy, depending on how you look at it. Mainstream comics in the early ’90s were a mess, no matter how you look […]
Wondrous Digest: In Praise of Warren Ellis’ Abridged Storytelling
We should all be so lucky to get a six issue run from Warren Ellis, even more so if it is from the Big Two. Ellis, one of the premiere comic book scribes of the modern age, has rarely been one for long-form storytelling. His recent runs, usually comprised of a compressed, done-in-one style, last […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Five, 20-1
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 […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Four, 40-21
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 […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 2, 80-61
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 […]
Marvel, You Need an Editor
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 […]
Split 7 Inch: Art Ops and The Vision
Welcome to Split Seven-Inch, a new feature of Loser City wherein we examine two pieces of media that are not necessarily closely related with each other yet still have something interesting in common. This week, Christopher M. Jones pits two opening issues against one another– the A-Side is the heavily hyped Art Ops, a new Vertigo […]
A Whole Galaxy of Multicolored Uppers, Downers, Screamers, Laughers: The Winter Soldier’s Hallucinogenic Cosmic Espionage
Before you’ve even started to read Ales Kot and Marco Rudy’s Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, its creative team wants you to know they’re going to fragment your consciousness. The new series’ first image is of the titular Bucky Barnes, smirking in malicious glee behind a red eyed domino mask as various other personas he has […]
Reviews in the Panel Panopticon: Shutter, Iron Fist, Lumberjanes 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. Shutter #1 Writer: Joe Keatinge Artist: Leila Del Luca Colorist: Owen Gieni Letterer: Ed Brisson Published by Image Comics Joe Keatinge’s work frequently deals with characters who have […]