2011 February
Month of Indy Comics – People Against Dan
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with a mini-comic from Athena Currier (I reviewed her full comic, Burn Book: The Slut Issue, a few days back) about two notable bosses that she has had in [...]
You Decide ’11 – Who is your least favorite Green Lantern Corps member from Earth?
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
Freewheelin’ Bob Crumb
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Nick did an extra piece for this week’s The Line It Is Drawn. Here it is! It is based on a suggestion from sbotzakis Dylan’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan cover w/ Crumb’s Trucking guy and Devil Girl Here’s the original… Read on for Nick’s version!
Random Thoughts! (February 21 2011)
Random Thought! It’s Family Day in Ontario and I’m celebrating it by writing this post for my online comics blogosphere family. Awwwwwww! It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
She Has No Head! – Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part Four
Welcome to Part Four, and the final installment of this iteration of The Ladies Comics Project in which a handful of my family, friends, colleagues, and a few new friends (both those familiar with comics and not) read and reviewed something from my personal library of graphic novels and trades. For more details about this [...]
Month of Indy Comics – Major Zombie: Love and Loss
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with Major Zombie: Love and Loss, by Lefty and Tan Eng Huat, a real treat of a comic…
Let’s review! with Sherlock Holmes and the Painful Predicament of Alice Faulkner
More Holmesian goodness? Let’s find out!
Comic Critics #150!
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-nine strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
You Decide ’11 – Who is the best superhero bro-mance?
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
Check us out on Facebook!
In case you haven’t noticed, Comics Should Be Good has a Facebook page (check it out here). If you “like” us on Facebook (which basically means you become “friends” with the site), you’ll be able to keep track of updates on the blog on your Facebook feed, as well as being able to interact with [...]
Month of Indy Comics – The Deathlings #1: Anne’s Story
Every day this month I’ll be reviewing a different independent comic book, based on submissions from the creators of the comic books themselves. The month continues with The Deathlings #1, a horror/fantasy comic book by Ian Struckhoff, Manuela Soriani, Michela Da Sacco and Juri Hayasaka (with a handsome cover by Reuben Negron)
You Decide ’11 – Best Marvel Comics Decade?
Each day this month, I’ll be posting a different poll question – each poll will last five days, and I’ll reveal the results of the finished polls every Tuesday. This way, for this month, we can see what our readers feel about various comic book questions. For a month, you folks will decide! Click here [...]
Style Equals Substance?
Sometimes, the style in which a work is presented becomes the substantive element of that work, a thematic tactic used to make allusions outside the confines of the narrative. Form often follows function, but sometimes, form is function. So Matt Seneca wrote this pair of pieces about Grant Morrison’s short-lived revamp of Wildstorm’s Wildcats and [...]
Temptation’s Page #1 – Batman Confidential #1, Page 6
Here’s a new comic book art contest! In the comments section recently, people were discussing how it is interesting to see different comic book artists interpreting the same comic book script. So it struck me that that would be a cool idea for a contest! So, each month, I’ll put up one page from a [...]
