Note: This article was written prior to Dan Slott’s apology, which can be found here. So much for anti-bullying variant cover month. To recap: Same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States on June 26th of this year, and while the ruling has extended privileges to same-sex couples that heterosexual couples have enjoyed for centuries, […]
Change in Speak: Comics Apologies and Learning to Listen
I’ve said a lot of stupid things. A lot. Even in the brief time I’ve been writing about comics, I’ve tweeted or spoken plenty of regrettable things. Sometimes it has been something embarrassing, but relatively small and easily fixed, like misacreditiation. Othertimes it has been something much more challenging, an opinion based on a lack […]
Meta Mercenaries: Because You Demanded It, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe
This week at Loser City we’re going to be discussing some meta mercenary works, commercial projects that tried to thwart their for-hire origins with some self-commentary, for better or for worse. Today we’re resurrecting and updating an essay Nick Hanover wrote for Comics Bulletin on Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, a miniseries by Cullen Bunn and Dalibor […]
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 […]
Dueling Auteurs- George Miller x Joss Whedon: The Ballad of Joss and George
Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, Mason Walker pits this summer’s two biggest […]
Immortal Combat: Master of Kung Fu is a Welcome Punch to the Gut
This was wishful thinking to the extreme, but when Kagan Mcleod’s Infinite Kung-Fu came out, I hoped it would spark a new wave of kung-fu comics. I’m not talking about that late era Iron Fist shit, where it’s basically sub-Dr. Strange mysticism slapped on top of old pulp adventuring. I’m talking about Shaw Brothers-indebted myth and […]
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Our 10 Picks of What to Get
May is here again, which means one very important thing: Free Comic Book Day! If you’re wondering what to pick up this year, don’t fret, we’ve put together 10 choices representing the diverse offerings available in order to help you decide. Bob’s Burgers We’re living in a Golden Age of licensed comics, with Adventure Time essentially […]
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. […]
Top Ten Greatest Comics Of All Time: A Risky and Dangerous Maneuver
Sometimes I enter a fugue state at the comic shop. I’ll be searching through longboxes of dollar books and suddenly get what a doctor assures me is called “a wild hair up one’s ass” and suddenly want to buy every single issue of Marvel Comics G.I Joe I can find, or piece together the “Fatal […]
Starmen Waiting in the Skies: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Return of the Space Opera
The weekend is over, which means box office reports are in. It’s probably not a surprise to hear that Marvel’s new franchise entry Guardians of the Galaxy has taken the top spot, but what is surprising to many is just how successful the film was, as James Gunn’s loving ode to swashbuckling space epics is […]