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Nineteen Technically Visible Women Who Worked on Image Comics in the 1990s

April 13, 2018

During our two concurrent investigations of the early years of Image (Bad Girls in retrospect, specifically, and Year of the Knockoff, by regular coincidence), every now and then we’ve come across (though this is admittedly an inexact science) a handful of apparently feminine names. Who ...

Comics, Opinion

Cybernary Has Nothing To Say

March 19, 2018

The nineties roll off of Cybernary. If the comic had a smell, it’d be diesel and Teen Spirit, all raucous and chaotic and mostly unpleasant, unless you’re a particular type of person. I’m not that person.

Comics

Stormwatch: A Big Bag of Knockoffs

February 2, 2018

The early ’90s were a hell of a time in comics. Superman died, the X-Men were everywhere, and even garbage would sell literally millions of copies. (For comparison, the best-selling titles in 2017 were lucky to break 100k copies.) Eight of Marvel’s most popular young creators left and ...

Comics, Roundtables

The Wedding Issue: Apollo and Midnighter

January 24, 2018

Aside from “Who would win in a fight?”, no debate gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Bride-to-Be Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic ...

Comics, Reviews, Roundtables

Roundtable: The Wild Storm #9

December 13, 2017

Thanks for joining us again for Rae & Annie: The Only People On Earth Who Still Give A Crap About Wildstorm, which is neither the title of this feature nor honestly an accurate representation of the feelings of Wildstorm fans. [I guess they’re just having a bad day. —Ed.] This feature ...

Comics, Pubwatch

52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: October 2017, Week Three

October 19, 2017

Or However Many I Feel Like, And They Might Not All Be Facts Welcome back to By The Numbers, the column where I count things in this week’s new comics from DC! This column will contain spoilers, but I’ll keep them as vague as possible while still amusing myself. Yet again, DC Comics ...

Comics, Reviews

Review: The Wild Storm #1

February 15, 2017

The Wild Storm #1 Warren Ellis (Writer), Jon Davis-Hunt (Art), Ivan Plascencia (Colorist) WildStorm (a DC Comics imprint) February 15th, 2017 Disclaimer: This article was written based off a review copy provided by DC Comics. Reading Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt’s The Wild Storm #1 is like ...

Comics, Essays

Wildcats, Superheroes and the True Female Power Fantasy

February 14, 2017

When Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster invented Superman in 1938, they created a new kind of power fantasy. Yes, Superman stood for the oppressed and downtrodden, but what excited readers most was his ability to do what normal people could not. His super strength and endurance, his ability to leap ...

Wildstorm

Nineteen Technically Visible Women Who Worked on Image Comics in the 1990s

Cybernary Has Nothing To Say

Stormwatch: A Big Bag of Knockoffs

The Wedding Issue: Apollo and Midnighter

Roundtable: The Wild Storm #9

52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: October 2017, Week Three

Review: The Wild Storm #1

Wildcats, Superheroes and the True Female Power Fantasy

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