This week, Archie Comics announced that its star character, musician, ladies man, goofus, and sometime superhero, is slated to die in an upcoming story. The death, in Life With Archie #36, is neatly timed to come on Archie Comics’ 75th anniversary. Unlike the revolving door that governs mortality in superhero comics, in Archie Comics’ books,…
Amazon to Acquire comiXology
If you’re visiting the comiXology website today, you’ll see a “Message from the CEO” rotating on in the banner. After seven years of business, the message from David Steinberger announces that comiXology will become part of the Amazon family. The message also states that they will retain its identity as an Amazon subsidiary so they can continue…
Emerald City Comicon: Smashing Con Harassment
I spent last weekend in Seattle as an attendee of Emerald City Comicon, and honestly, I’m still coming down from the whole experience. It was awesome. While it was my third time attending ECCC, it this was my first time cosplaying. It was my first time cosplaying EVER. I had no idea what to expect,…
News & Things: All commentary, all the time.
Two Editors, One Novelist How Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue and her Canadian and American editors all work together. 13 Webcomics That Will Make You Smarter io9 recommends thirteen educational (sometimes unintentionally so) webcomics. Should A Black Writer Write White Characters? Would you be contributing to oppression? Invisibility? Judged harder than a white writer? Are Superheroes Outliving Their…
Super MOOC March Check-In
It’s been a few weeks since the start of the Social Issues through Comic Books course. In its first module, Addiction, students were given tools to understand and recognize addiction so they could better identify addiction in the weekly readings. Weekly readings have included Buzzkill, Green Lantern V2 #85 & 86, Sex Criminals #1, and…
Webcomics Capsules: Superheroes and Feminists
Webcomics Capsules is all about short webcomics reviews—more like recommendations, actually. See what our writers are enjoying around the web, choose your favorites and get to reading! This edition has two of my favorite things: superheroes and feminism. Laugh with (at) Jean Grey and Scott Summers in Max Wittert’s parody, or the folks at The…
Keiron Gillen On the Treatment of Rape In His Alt-WW2 Comic Über
From our upcoming feature interview with Kieron Gillen: This is World War II, and there were over one million rapes in central Berlin, and the fact is this was just really how it is. I’ve never written a page more carefully than that third page, because this cannot be exploitative, this cannot be titillating. In…
News & Things: Serious business
Archie dies in July Seems the days are numbered for beloved character Archie Andrews. Archie Comics announced that his death with conclude the Life with Archie series. How the war on terror has changed comics Tom Risen claims that since 2001, superheroes in comics have taken a more global view which often involves questioning the U.S….
Short & Sweet: Surfing and Surviving
Silver Surfer #1 Dan Slott and Mike Allred; cover by Mike Allred Marvel Comics Oh, this is gonna be fun. Our Surfer is out in space doing his Surfer thing, being kind to smaller creatures and suchlike. But many years ago, twin girls Eve and Dawn mistook him for a falling star and made…
Cosplay Hustle: Con Prep on a Short Time Budget
I am a nerd. Loudly and proudly. I am also a huge procrastinator and scatterbrain. Put these two things together, and this is what you get… The Procrastinerdor Presents: Cosplaying: A Last-Minute Thor costume for ECCC I’ve been going down to Seattle from Vancouver for Emerald City Comic for four years now. This year we…
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News & Things: Robert Downey Jr. Being Awesome Edition
Robert Downey Jr. Hosts Kid Screening of The Winter Soldier, Because Of Course He Did And he did it on his birthday, because what better way to celebrate that by bringing superhero joy to children?
