There are some creative teams in comics that I’ll come out for whenever they release works, not because their consistency is so high that I know I’ll get perfection but because even if the work is disappointing, it’s still entertaining. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips stand out as especially symbolic of this, with their current […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Black Age: Exploring the New Wave of Neo-Noir Comics
Amid the resurgence of the cape-and-tight set due to the multimedia conglomerate cash influx of the last half-decade, there has been a spark in genre comics that has been commercially unexplored in comparison. They’re the books on the shelves with uncommon credits and covers that aren’t simulating starfire or stadium lights- they’re timelessly modern, a […]
Sex, Lies, and Celluloid: The Fade Out is a Tragic Love Letter to Hollywood, Warts and All
You don’t have to dig too deep to find the seedy underbelly in any portion of Hollywood history. Charlie Chaplin features prominently in the mystery of early mogul Thomas Ince’s death, spurring on the jealous rage of William Randolph Hearst and causing Ince to take a bullet meant for Chaplin, depending on which story you […]