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What if I said you could save the world from certain doom just by making breakfast? Is that why they say it’s the most important meal of the day? Probably. I’ve arrived at this hypothesis after years of reading comics, which is obviously the best way to gain accurate information about the world around us….
Retro Review: Marvels
I’ve always loved Alex Ross. If ever I’m rich there’s a few things I’ll do: buy cool flats in London, Paris, New York, and Toronto, donate large sums of money to worthwhile causes and churches, attempt to visit fifty-two countries in a year, and buy a tonne of Alex Ross artwork. The privilege of seeing a…
Marvel at the Noise: A New All-Woman Podcast
What’s this? A brand new podcast curated and hosted by womenfolk of Marvel Comics? The first episode dropped today and if I weren’t “working” right now my ears would be all over it. This is such positive news to contrast with all of the recent, cruddy episodes of companies grossly mishandling all things Women. In…
Where Do We Stand: May Comic Sales
Each month, Diamond Comics Distributors releases data on the top selling products from single issue comics, to graphic novels and trade paperbacks, to toys. So far this year, the trend shows the top single issue comic sales heavy with superhero stories from Marvel and DC, but diversity is growing in the trade paperback and graphic…
Review: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Mike Benson, Writer Tan Eng Huat, Pencils Craig Yeung, Inks Marvel Comics I hadn’t even noticed there was a new Deadly Hands of Kung Fu title until I was going for my week’s comics and noticed Misty Knight on the cover of issue #2. I immediately went back and bought…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Special Edition NYC!
Marvellites! It’s Monday again, so let’s talk about what’s new at the House of Ideas.
Review: Ms. Marvel #4
Review: Ms. Marvel #4 Continuing the review of the premiere arc of Marvel’s newest superheroine, Kamala Khan. “Past Curfew” I did a reread of all three issues before working on reviewing issue #4 so I could go write with my head fully in Kamala’s world. SPOILER WARNING! This series is as much recap as review,…
Holding You Accountable: Goyer, Mazin, and A Giant Green Porn Star
Earlier this week, during the taping of a live-audience podcast named Scriptnotes, screenwriter David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) sat and talked with a number of other screenwriters (Andrea Berloff, Stephen McFeely, and Christopher Markus, to be exact) and the podcast hosts, John August and Craig Mazin, about writing superhero movies. A major point of…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Snikt!
Hey there, True Believers! (© “True Believers” is copyright Stan Lee, upon penalty of death. Excelsior!) We will be splitting up the news a little bit differently from here on out, and as resident lifelong Marvel Zombie, I will be taking on some of the coverage of the (obviously vastly superior) half of the Big…
Brian Wood Leaving X-Men
Brian Wood has left X-Men, he stated on Twitter today. “FYI, I left the title on my own accord, no drama, no pressure, just moving on,” he wrote. He has been on the title since May of last year, after penning runs on X-Men, Volume 3 and Ultimate Comics: X-Men. Brian’s last issue will be…
Top Ten Comic Book Geniuses
There are plenty of characters in the world of DC and Marvel who have powers to punch through steel reinforced walls, read minds, and fly—but what about good old ingenuity? How about the geniuses that help save the world or make it their life’s mission to destroy it? What is genius and what role does it…
Greg Pak Seeds The Clouds With Hashtag #WhyILoveStorm
A tiny blurb in Previews magazine created a tempest over Storm #1 – a series fans have been a long time waiting for. Series writer Greg Pak expressed why this means so much to him, “I’ve loved Storm since I was a kid biking down to Lone Star Comics in North Dallas to stare in…