Marvel's Faiza Hussain: 'Better' as Normal
Whatever Marvel is doing with Secret Wars, one established fact stands out to me: they’re bringing back British, hijabi superhero, and personal favorite, Faiza Hussain, to the printed page. My heart...
View ArticleLucifer Schmucifer: 'Lucifer' Trailer Reveals Yet Another Procedural Show
The first trailer for Fox's Lucifer TV adaptation is here, and it looks bad. Much like iZombie, this series looks to have sacrificed most of what made it vivid in the name of providing yet another...
View ArticleTracking the Lusty Life of Shelley, John Allison's Uncompromising Webcomic Star
Over the course of seventeen real years and three webcomics set in the same locale, John Allison has taken his breakout character Shelley Winters through various incarnations. She’s a hot, saucy dame...
View ArticleDC Announces New 'Bombshells' Variant Covers and Digital Series By...
Friends, it’s happened. We have Bombshell Superman. And he’s delightful. Ant Lucia’s Action Comics #43 cover is one of several variants released as part of DC's Bombshell cover month in August. DC has...
View ArticleThe 'A-Force' Experience: A Perplexing Read for a Lapsed True Believer
A-Force is an alternate reality limited series that's a part of the current Marvel Comics crossover event, Secret Wars. Written by G. Willow Wilson and Marguerite Bennett and drawn by Jorge Molina,...
View Article'Wolverine: Top Secret' Takes That Lovable Grump To The Prom
In 1994, X-Men: The Animated Series was still going strong, and X-Men comics were buoyant. Things were going pretty poorly for Wolverine on both counts; season three of the cartoon began with his...
View ArticleToday in Comics History: A Tribute to Hugo Pratt
On this day in 1927, Hugo Pratt was born. This was a boon to a great many people. The people who knew and loved him, of course. Those who benefited from his contributions to his community, the economy,...
View ArticleIrene Koh & Mariko Tamaki on IDW's 'Casey & April': Alone in the Desert,...
This Wednesday, IDW will put out the first issue of Casey & April: a miniseries that takes April O'Neil and Casey Jones out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' supporting cast, and sends them on a...
View ArticleKelly Sue DeConnick Leaves 'Captain Marvel', To Fans' Chagrin!
Sad news for those who loved Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Captain Marvel tenure: the end is in sight. “Captain Marvel” has been a number of people. Only two of them, Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau, have...
View ArticleBack Off, Dad, I'll Dress How I Like: Dracula vs Lilith in 'Tomb of Dracula'
Tomb of Dracula came out of Marvel between 1972 and 1979: start date, one year after the CCA let up on vampires. This was a year after Hammer’s increasingly psychological Karnstein Trilogy wrapped up...
View ArticleThe Craving For Organic Connection: Ray Fawkes Talks 'Junction True'
Take the "bald journo in the dirty cyberfuture" of Transmetropolitan, take out the aggro and the orange, and center the story on his desire to please a woman --- a woman who wants, with elegant...
View ArticleThe Walking (Super) Man: Reading Jiro Taniguchi Through the Filter of Clark Kent
Jiro Taniguchi’s The Walking Man is a quiet delight, full of poetic, solitary gentleness and the space between things. Collected in English in a very beautiful padded hardcover by Ponent Mon, it tells...
View ArticleLast Gasp Hopes to Bring the Lessons of 'Barefoot Gen' to Schools and...
The Barefoot Gen for Schools and Libraries Kickstarter is a two-pronged attack on complacency — three, if you count the example it sets in itself. Aiming to 1) get classic comic literature into...
View ArticleBody Horror & Bloody Violence: Should You Be Reading 'Inuyashiki'?
Gantz creator Hiroya Oku's excellent, self-interrogating, painfully observed comic Inuyashiki is about a salaryman who discovers he has powers: flight, combat, the ability to heal, technological...
View ArticleOuter Space & Inner Doubts: Should You Be Reading 'Space Brothers'?
What if there were two young brothers, and they both wanted to go to space? What if the brothers got older --- and the younger one was scheduled on the next trip out of NASA, just as the elder was...
View Article51 Years Ago Today: Zatanna Made Her Magical Debut
Debuting in the pages of Hawkman #4 by Murphy Anderson and Gardner Fox this week in 1964, Zatanna is a magician in a science fiction world; a magic user in a shared universe built upon Superman's...
View ArticleTeenage Love, Teenage Death: Should You Be Reading 'Orange'?
Takano Ichigo's Orange takes divergent timelines, suicidal ideation, coming of age, and the struggles to communicate oneself cleanly in even the most dedicated friendship systems, and wraps them all up...
View ArticleHipster God & The Bad Teacher: Should You Be Reading 'ReCollection'?
In ReCollection, by Ichigo Takano, a man with no positive attributes beyond the physical basics discovers that he’s an amnesiac high school teacher. He’s dating a student in his homeroom class. And he...
View ArticleTombs You Want? Tombs You Get: Mariko Tamaki Takes On Lara Croft in 'Tomb...
Tomb Raider is a franchise with a lot of amalgamated input, and one that a lot of people have their own take on. Is Lara Croft a strong female character, or a 'Strong Female Character'? From franchise...
View ArticleOn the Other Hand, Hope: Remembering Shigeru Mizuki
The death of a master: rest in peace, Shigeru Mizuki. Mangaka, author and painter Shigeru Mizuki didn’t publish a single book until he was thirty-five. By this point he was a veteran of the Second...
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