Fun Fact #1: The original Captain Britain comic book series lasted 39 weekly issues. Fun Fact #2: 11 of those issues are taken up with a storyline so long and boring that, at one point,…
When I was about five years old, I got this Captain American balloon that I thought was just about the coolest thing in the world. It was nothing hugely special, just a shiny Mylar balloon with a generic…
Please don’t miss this week’s new episode of the podcast, just below. It is much better than this weird post. I’ve been pretty hard on this Superman: American Alien project Max Landis is writing for DC….
You may or may not remember, back in July last year, DC announcing 8 new miniseries intended to “freshen up and contemporarize” a number of fan-favorite characters with that tried-and-true method: bringing back old-school writers,…
I’ve got a backlog of comics I want to write about. It currently forms a towering bulwark on my bedside table, containing all kinds of stuff — some DC and Marvel, yes, but also indie and…
I cannot claim that I came to Oni’s new series Another Castle, written by Andrew Wheeler and drawn by Paulina Ganucheau, without a whole bunch of preconceptions and biases: I’ve enjoyed Wheeler’s work and general internet presence for,…
I don’t know if sales work in the brick-and-mortar world. I mean, I try to make sure I get my grocery staples when they rotate onto sale, but beyond that I just mostly buy stuff…
A bonus post to make up for that time earlier this month that I left you guys to go A WHOLE WEEK without my musings. This is in some ways something that’s better suited for…
As a concept, I like Image Comics a lot: a reasonably diverse slate of books covering a variety of different genres, by creators who have a genuine stake in what they’re doing. In actual fact, I…
More than a week late in returning to posting here, and I was starting to worry. I wasn’t deeply enough into anything i was reading for it to generate a full post’s worth of blather…
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