On the first Monday of every month we meet up on Twitter for the #WWACComicClub. Last week we discussed This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. The response to this comic was unanimous. Everyone loved this simple yet heartfelt coming-of-age story and agreed that Jillian Tamaki’s art was the perfect companion to Mariko Tamaki’s…
The Diary of a Teenage Girl Coming to the Big Screen
Phoebe Gloeckner’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl is in post-production for the big screen. That’s right. We’re talking Tinseltown, baby. La La Land. Hollywood.
Caption This Contest: #RomanceRevisited
Ah, romance comics. Is there any genre of comics that are more consistently baffling than those books of the Golden and Silver Age? We think not! And yet we are asking you, dear readers, to interject your own bit of crazy into these already guffaw-inducing comics with a caption this contest! We are even offering…
Captain America #22: A Retailer’s Perspective
The last week has seen a lot of mudslinging online involving the ill-received Captain America #22 by Rick Remender and John Romita, Jr. Fans and creators have been vocal in their opinions, many unbelievably (but not) receiving threats over their positions, and it got ugly very quickly. One voice that has been noticeably quiet throughout?…
Visuals Vs Written Narrative: Raven’s Gate
It’s been a couple of months, so I apologise. I promised you a look at the graphic novelisations made of Anthony Horowitz’ bestseller novels—the Power of Five and Alex Rider—that I shared my problems with back in May. I needed a break, what can I say?
The DC Daily Planet: Hellos and Goodbyes
There’s a lot of new faces this week, DC fans! New creative teams to be excited or angry about, new cast members to muse over, and, of course, a few familiar names we’ll be sad to see go.
Reviews Roulette: Spin the Wheel, Write Reviews
Welcome to Reviews Roulette, where editors randomly assign comics to our staff writers for review! This week we assigned The Auteur #4 (Oni Press), Thomas Aslop (BOOM!), and Emily and the Strangers: Breaking the Record (Dark Horse).
Brand New Batgirl Design Revealed, Internet Has Feelings
Let’s begin this way: Batgirl got a new design and it is awesome!
Human After All: Representation of People in IDW’s Transformers
As demonstrated in my last piece, the Cybertronians in the IDW Transformers books aren’t too different from people from the good old planet Earth. They have politics, they have religion- just as the Transformers are effectively human beings in metal skin, their society is ours coated in chrome allegory.
Tim & Harper Will They Or Won’t They: Batman Eternal Check In #12-13
Here we are again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. It’s another Batman Eternal Bi-Weekly Check In. For those of you just tuning in, Batman Eternal is the year-long, weekly comic book event being run to celebrate Batman’s 75th Anniversary. Gotham is falling to pieces, Gordon has been arrested, the new commissioner refuses to work with ‘costumes’,…
Vault of Midnight Store Review and Interview with Nick Yribar
Comic book fandom did not come easily to me. When I was a kid I wanted comics to be “my thing.” The tricky part was at that time they were hard for an eight year old to get their hands on. My mom tried taking me to my hometown’s tiny comic book shop but the…
Why I’m Excited about Wayward
One of the things I got to do while at Phoenix ComiCon was talk to Jim Zub about his upcoming comic, Wayward. Jim described it like this:
