2011 May
A Month of Webcomics – Registered Weapon
All throughout May, I’ll spotlight a different web comic. Like with the month of independent comics and the month of LGBT comics, I figure I will let you web comic creators out there suggest your comic for spotlight during this month. So if you want me to spotlight your comic, drop me a line at [...]
Flippin’ through Previews – May 2011
It’s a bit later than usual, but I hope you’ll forgive me – I’ve been busy. But now it’s time to check out the latest issue of Previews!
Committed: Digital Comics & User-Experience
Now that comic books are being bought and sold in a digital format, read on websites and downloaded, why hasn’t there been a radical rethink of the user-interface? After 20 years of refining websites, online comics haven’t changed a bit. We are still looking basically a static image, clumsily scrolling down vertically oriented pages which [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #39 – Comic Book Characters and Greek or Norse Mythology!
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: Some Ozsome Classic Comics
I recently read Eric Shadower and Skottie Young’s adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s Wonderful World of Oz. My kids are pretty big fans of all things Oz, so it got me thinking about the various incarnations of the Oz story throughout Four Color History. To head off any comments regarding Shadower’s other Oz books and [...]
Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors #1 Review
This week marks the release of the first issue of Mark Andrew Smith’s new comic, Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors, with artwork by Armand Villavert and colors by Carlos Carrasco. As the title suggests, this is about a school for future supervillains, but naturally, things aren’t quite as straightforward as that…
Five Goofiest Moments in Captain America #318-322
You voted, and in a wide margin, you decided that you wanted me to feature five-issue stretches without going in chronological order, so that’s what I’ll be doing! So for the rest of the month, each day will have the five goofiest moment from a five-issue stretch of a particular comic book run. Once a [...]
A Month of Webcomics – American Barbarian
All throughout May, I’ll spotlight a different web comic. Like with the month of independent comics and the month of LGBT comics, I figure I will let you web comic creators out there suggest your comic for spotlight during this month. So if you want me to spotlight your comic, drop me a line at [...]
All of A.I.M.’s Horses and All of A.I.M.’s Men…
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
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couldn’t put Humpty M.O.D.O.K. back together again. Sean McFarland decided to do an extra piece on a whim – a Humpty Dumpty/M.O.D.O.K. mash-up sort of based on the recent The Line It Is Drawn about comic book characters and fairy tales mashed up together. Read on to check it out!
Random Thoughts! (May 3, 2011)
Random Thought! I love Sunny D! It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
Goofiest Moments Poll
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
I am a bit torn on how best to go about featuring the goofiest moments. So far I’ve done it chronological, with the first 20 issues of the FF, the first 10 issues of Amazing Spider-Man and the first five Martian Manhunter stories. I was wondering, though, if people would prefer I keep doing it [...]
Comic Critics #160!
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 fifty-nine strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
Five Goofiest Moments in the First Five Martian Manhunter Comics
Yes, you lucky devils you, a MONTH of this stuff! All throughout May, each day will have the five goofiest moment from a five-issue stretch of a particular comic book run. Once a week it will be the ten goofiest moments of a ten-issue stretch. Here is a list of the moments featured so far. [...]
A Month of Webcomics – The Line
All throughout May, I’ll spotlight a different web comic. Like with the month of independent comics and the month of LGBT comics, I figure I will let you web comic creators out there suggest your comic for spotlight during this month. So if you want me to spotlight your comic, drop me a line at [...]
The Age of X Dialogues Part Seven — New Mutants #24 & Age of X Universe #2
Welcome back to two of your favorite Comics Should be Good bloggers geeking out over alternate reality X-Men fun! “The Age of X Dialogues” where Kelly Thompson and I discuss every issue of the “Age of X” storyline. We conclude the Dialogues this week with New Mutants #24 and Age of X Universe #2…
