It’s Mighty Marvel Monday! As promised, this week’s column will be mainly focused on the release of Fantastic Four, but before I get to that, I have to take a moment to address the Axel-In-Charge released this past Friday. TL;DR — Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso spoke to CBR about “course correcting” Marvel’s diversity problem, and…
Sorry Marvel, Hercules Is Bi in Every Universe
Marvel chief Axel Alonso has spoken: Hercules is not bisexual in Marvel’s 616 universe. That time Hercules and Wolverine were in love? Alternate dimension. A uniquely queer dimension where hypermasculine hardbodies could be queer and in a loving, long term relationship. HERCULES IS STRAIGHT, he shouted from the rooftop of Marvel’s New York office. Our…
Into the Valley of WTF: Gin and Kate review IDW’s The X-Files: Season 10, Volume 4
The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 4 Joe Harris (writer), Francesco Francavilla (cover) “Immaculate” Colin Lorimer (artist), Jeana Lafuente (colors), Neil Uyetake and Shawn Lee (letters) “Monica & John” Matthew Dow Smith (artist), Jordie Bellaire (colors), Shawn Lee (letters) “G-23” Tom Mandrake (artist), additional inks by Area 52 studio, Sian Mandrake (colors), Robbie Robbins and Neil…
Shinbun Saturday: Eluding Government Bans and Facing IP Laws
Classic science fiction manga coming to North America Move over, Udon Entertainment. Classic manga fans were granted a boon this past week at Otakon with Kodansha announcing their licensing of 1978 series Queen Emeraldas. The series follows Hiroshi Umino as he sneaks onto a spaceship to escape from Earth. It will mark Queen Emeraldas’ first…
DC Daily Planet: Dan Didio Talks DCU and Zack Snyder Spills on DCCU
DC Comics has been bubbling with news this week, from major casting announcements featuring Chris Pine, a new Supergirl villain and 400 mothers and daughters, a possible meeting between DC and Robot Chicken, DC head Dan Didio reveals the plan for DC Comics upcoming line, and Zack Snyder reveals bits of his plan for the…
Sequential Sartorial: Fetishists, Unlike Emma Frost, Understand Occasion
Welcome to the X-Men, where second-skin garmentry is commonplace—hope you survive the experience! Amongst the X-Men is a villain-turned-teacher (turned heroine, though never nice); her name is Emma Frost. For most of her history, she’s worn all-white, though recently she turned to all-black. But just as often as she’s been monochromatic, she’s been clothed in outfits…
Disciple of the Witchblade
When Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri and all those X-Men artists I loved packed up and started Image Comics and its various subsidiaries, I followed, mesmerized by the shiny covers and promises of badass babes. This was the age of the Bad Girl: empowered women in spine-violating, perky-nippled poses. Somewhere deep inside me, my inner…
Behind the Rainbow Table – My Time Selling Queer Comics at SDCC!
First, a little background. My fiancée Ann and I have been creating the 18+ queer webcomic Grave Impressions for about three years now – it’s a noir mystery about a gay man aspiring to be a detective and the cases that turn his life upside down. Last year we had the spectacular fortune to partner…
My Left or Your Right? The Newbie Friendliness of Manga
Picture, if you will, a fresh-faced fan walking into a comic book store on Free Comic Book Day. She picks up a haul of titles that look interesting. Hey, it’s free! Perfect opportunity to try something new out, right? Included in that haul is a sampler put out by a North American manga publisher. How awesome!…
Ghost World: To Avoid Growing Up, Buy More Stuff
Ghost World Daniel Clowes Fantagraphics Books 1997 Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World is about clinging to a stage of life that is fading from existence. The teenaged lives that Enid and Rebecca have lead are over. Floating from home to the diner to stores and back to home without purpose, they continue to behave as though…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Harvey Pekar Gets A Park (In Cleveland!)
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland Hometown Honors Cartoonist with Park Dedication, Celebration Known for changing culture’s perception of graphic novels and auto-bio comics, Harvey Pekar was sometimes called “Cleveland’s poet laureate” as his works frequently revolved around the city and his day-to-day life there. Now his hometown has honored the late cartoonist, who passed away in 2010,…
When Boy’s Love Goes Bad: CLAMP’s Legal Drug
(Disclaimer: Review copies of Legal Drug and Drug & Drop vol. 1 and vol. 2 were supplied by Dark Horse. This essay also contains some light spoilers.) First, a primer! If you’re familiar with boy’s love, girl’s love, yaoi, yuri, shonen-ai, or shojo-ai just go ahead and skip this paragraph. For those of you who…
