2011 January
Comic Critics #144!
Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first hundred and forty-three strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Congrats to Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort!
Man, when you have a day with as big of a news story as Flex Mentallo being collected into a deluxe hardcover, Marvel would be hard pressed to come up with a news story to beat that, and yet they almost certainly did, with the announcement that Axel Alonso will succeed Joe Quesada as Marvel’s [...]
3 Chicks Review Comics – Episode 005
It’s Episode 005! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN, DOWNLOAD, AND/OR SUBSCRIBE TO ITUNES NOW. Inside this episode! Welcome back to our first cast of the new year and after a two week hiatus! It’s also our first ever “special episode” featuring not only a slew of picks for Best of 2010, but also a special guest [...]
Holy. Crap.
Flex Mentallo to be published in a “Deluxe Edition hardcover with bonus features” in the fall. That is all. Commence celebrating!
I Saw It Advertised One Day #7
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #3
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
She Has No Head! – Nextwave Agents of AWESOME
Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Warren Ellis (writer). Stuart Immonen (artist). Wade Von Grawbadger (inks). Dave McCraig and Paul Mounts (colors). Marvel. 264 pages. $34.99, softcover edition issues #1-12. So let’s start the year off right with some balls to the wall comics fun, yes? I’ve been talking a lot in this column over the last [...]
Like A Fool I Mixed Them #2
As you all know, superhero comic books are a serial medium, and superhero continuity, in particular, is an ever-changing status quo as characters change dramatically over the years. However, “classic” storylines are often viewed on their own and not as a part of whatever continuity was current at the time the story was released. As [...]
Like A Fool I Mixed Them #1
As you all know, superhero comic books are a serial medium, and superhero continuity, in particular, is an ever-changing status quo as characters change dramatically over the years. However, “classic” storylines are often viewed on their own and not as a part of whatever continuity was current at the time the story was released. As [...]
I Saw It Advertised One Day #6
We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #2
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
What Is EVERYONE Reading?
As part of Robot 6′s second anniversary at Comic Book Resources, they asked all the good folks at CBR (reviewers, Spinoff Online writers plus, well, you know, us) to contribute to their weekly “What Are You Reading?” feature! Here are the results, with contributions from me (one of the books I mentioned shows up first!), [...]
Happy 2nd Anniversary, Robot 6!
Our sister blog here at Comic Book Resources, Robot 6, is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary at CBR with a big ol’ birthday bash with LOTs of cool stuff! Check it out here! I was a part of the group blog that is now called Robot 6 years ago when it was The Great Curve, and [...]
2010: The Year We Make “Best Of” Lists
What, 2011 already? Isn’t it high time for another renumbering? Lo, as prophesied, comes the day when humanity remembers the things it liked in the past year and then ranks them according to preference. I’m forgoing the usual countdown, however, and skipping to the #1s from various lists! Only the best need apply!
A Month of Cover Theme Games #1
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]
