As we draw closer and closer to the Hellfire Gala, we took the time to sit down with Al Ewing to talk about all thing S.W.O.R.D. We take a look at the many ways the book and its team took shape, how to offend Khora of the Burning Heart, and how to launch a title…
REVIEW: Way of X #2: Questioning the Inevitable
David Haller, aka Legion, takes full control in Way of X #2. Can Nightcrawler figure out how to keep up?
Previously: Neil Gaiman’s Fucks
As May draws to a close, we look back at how the comics industry did this past week or so.
REVIEW: Women in Marvel Films: They Don’t Know Their Value Yet
Women in Marvel Films answers the question “why aren’t there more superheroines on our screens?” Especially when a comics giant like Marvel has successfully churned out so many films featuring male heroes. And when we do get women characters, what kind of role do they play? What agency do they have? Readers aren’t going to…
[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] The Many Ages of DC Comics: A Sequel
Our monthly Patron-exclusive essay series continues. You can read all of these incredible analyses for as little as a dollar a month on our Patreon. Three years ago, I got annoyed on Twitter and wound up writing a long article about the various different “Ages” of American comics. Well, I recently had a conversation with our…
Last Week’s Episode: Evil Season 2 is Coming
There’s a LOT of CW news this week, some trailers, a Christmas special, and more in this week’s overview of comics+ media.
DC PUBWATCH – May 2021
Mayday mayday! Waking Hours did not earn the top slot this month. Instead, that honor went to The Other History of the DC Universe #4, a book that has also been remarkably good for its run, but in a much different way than Waking Hours has.
The Use Of Color Theory In The Winx Franchise
Unlike the 2004 cartoon on which it’s based, Fate: The Winx Saga fails to use creative character design and color theory to help tell a story — and that’s a shame.
REVIEW: Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
Social anthropologist and novelist Jenny White (Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, The Winter Thief) and artist Ergün Gündüz’s Turkish Kaleidoscope is dizzying. The graphic novel follows four characters, who are fictionalized composites of oral history interviewees, over four years in Turkey as political power shifted between different leftist and rightist groups. The comic, which…
REVIEW: Reptil #1 Is a Roaring Reintroduction
Reptil’s real name is Humberto Lopez. He was a superhero. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, don’t worry. Reptil #1 — the first issue of a four-part, post-Outlawed, post-King in Black miniseries — effectively (re)introduces the character, who first appeared in writer Christos Gage and artist Steve Uy’s Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil #1.
INTERVIEW: Eric Palicki on his New Punk Rock Noir Horror Series Black’s Myth
Coming this July is Black’s Myth, a punk rock noir horror series starring werewolf private investigator Janie Jones. At its heart, this black-and-white series is as much about discovering whodunnit as is about “outcasts finding each other and accepting their place in the world,” said writer Eric Palicki in the AHOY Comics’ press release. Palicki…
REVIEW: My Heart is a Chainsaw Effortlessly Slays
Content warning: Self-harm, suicide, and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. I’d say MHIAC it’s made for teenagers sixteen years old and older. My Heart is a Chainsaw feels like it was made for me, and me personally, which is always a wonderful thing to feel when you open a book. The volume begins with an…
