Dracula is one of the biggest blockbuster shockers of all time, a story we know like our own flesh and blood. Every decade raises its own re-imaginings, but the 1970s was a particularly fecund decade for Dracula and his children, from Hammer Studios’ final stake-thrusts at Christopher Lee’s Count to works like The Tomb of…
REVIEW: Once Goddess, Once Queen — Vita Ayala Unleashes Storm in Marauders #13
Jonathan Hickman et al have been unsubtly hinting that Storm has a Big Role to Play, though everything leading up to now has implied little more than a chance of rain. To think, it only took a new writer whom I know actually cares about the character and writes her accordingly in Marauders #13 to…
REVIEW: Two Blades, Two Fighters, Two Chapters in Wolverine #6 and X-Force #13
Normally I’d review these separately, but since they’re two chapters of the same event, written and drawn by the same creative team, and releasing the same week, here you go with both Wolverine and X-Force! Wolverine #6 and X-Force #13 Victor Bogdanovic (Art), VC’s Joe Caramagna (Letters, X-Force), Tom Muller (Design), Benjamin Percy (Writing), VC’s Cory Petit (Letters,…
Travelers: Following the Path of Aron Wiesenfeld’s Artistic Journey
Aron Wiesenfeld grew up with comics and became an artist largely because of them, but it’s been a long time since the comics world has seen him. Fans have watched his style evolve from work on X-Men, Cable, and Image Comics’ Team 7 in the early ’90s. These were followed by written and illustrated work…
REVIEW: X-Factor #4: X of Swords Part 2: Chekhov’s Rockslide
X-Factor #4 doubles as X of Swords part 2, with regular writer Leah Williams returning alongside guest artist Carlos Gomez. I was equally excited for the next installment of X of Swords and frustrated that this wasn’t a regular issue of X-Factor, but the creative team delivered on both counts. This issue features an emotional…
REVIEW: An Unkindness of Ravens #1 Is Almost Bewitching
An Unkindness of Ravens from BOOM! Studios provides stunning visuals, which contrast with a somewhat anemic plotline.
IDW Pubwatch October 2020
Welcome to the IDW Pubwatch. The world is still reeling from the pandemic but here’s something to distract you—a few exciting comics that will occupy your mind, at least for a little while. I’ve also got the latest news coming out of IDW, along with comic book reviews—including Life in the Stupidverse—and a selection of…
Ashley Christine’s Midnight 99 Is a Trip for the Lizard Brain
We’ve dealt with alien lizards invading earth before with V. This time, there’s a lot less peeling off human guises to reveal the ghastly lizard creatures beneath, and a lot more sex, drugs, and probably rock n’ roll in Ashley Christine’s Midnight 99, out today from NeoText.
REVIEW: Champions #1
“The Champions have always been about standing up against what’s wrong. Standing up for people who can’t always stand up for themselves. And doing the work that the adult super hero community is too busy fighting among themselves to do,” says Ms. Marvel in Champions #1, an issue largely defined by infighting among the team’s…
Raising a Glass to Tom Peyer and Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #1
Edgar Allan Poe might be rolling in his grave, but that won’t stop AHOY Comics’ Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer from keeping the horror and humour pouring in with the new Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood #1.
Previously on Comics: I’m Not Allowed To Say I Hope Donald Trump Dies On Twitter
Good morning! Happy first full week of Halloween. I definitely hope Donald Trump dies. Ngozi Ukazu, creator of Check, Please!, has had her first strip printed in the New Yorker! Congratulations! …and now for the rest. LA Comic Con is moving ahead full steam in December! This seems like a terrible idea. Houghton Mifflin has shuttered its 14 year…
I Draw (A Graphic Dissertation), Comics as Method and Holding Environment
Last week, in “I Draw (A Graphic Dissertation), Therefore I Am,” I wrote about how I got to drawing my dissertation, drawing comics as scholarship, and about comics as a way to think. Building on that, this week I want to start with the concept of “holding environments” (term originally coined by Donald Woods Winnicott…
