Comics Archives

ComiXology – It's All About Sharing?
  Business Insider's Gus Lubin has talked about  buying comics on ComiXology. He says, I used to go to Forbidden Planet in Manhattan every Wednesday to browse new comics. But since my recent discovery of Comics by comiXology, the company that Amazon just bought for an undisclosed amount, I can't see myself regularly going to a comic store ever again. He also admits[...]
Desperately Seeking Comics At London Book Fair 2014
They had a big comics-based booth and had all sorts of things to attract the eye. Okay, yes, there were My Little Pony packs at Alice-height. Thankfully, the Joker Mask set for Death Of The Joker was a little higher.     Self Made Hero are part of a new breed of British graphic novel publisher, emerging over the last[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Kaare Andrews With An Iron Fist
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode84.mp3] After last week's chat with Rick Remender (which you can still listen to here), this time I catch up with writer/artist/all-round-creator-and-good-guy Kaare Andrews (The Incredible Hulk, A + X, Spider-Man: Reign) to talk about his run on Iron Fist which begins this week from Marvel Comics. Kaare & I talk about everything from auteur[...]
Typing on the Dead #125 – Diplomacy In Action
  My feeling on the whole issue can be summed up by Negan very succinctly. So only one more issue to go in All Out War, start taking your bets on who lives and who dies because I have to believe if Negan is going down, he's taking someone down with him.  Right now I feel like[...]
TOLDJA: Amazon Buys ComiXology
We ran this story three weeks ago, back in March. Now, three weeks later, ComiXology has confirmed it publicly. SEATTLE—April 10, 2014—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, the company that revolutionized the digital comics reading experience with their immersive Guided View technology and makes discovering, buying, and reading comic books[...]
Two Number Twos With Varying Results: Magneto #2 And Starlight #2 (Spoiler Free)
By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu Title: Magneto #2 Writer: Cullen Bunn Artist: Gabriel Hernandez Walta Publisher: Marvel Comics As Cullen Bunn and Gabriel Hernandez's Magneto continues from an excellent debut, the comic book flows smoothly into sophomore territory The story, and the way it flashes back to explain the present, is deftly told with beautifully atmospheric art[...]
A Guinness World Record For Deadpool? Not So Fast…
We ran this a couple of days ago, but yesterday Marvel Comics sent out a press release about Deadpool #27 getting the Guinness World Record for the most number of characters in a comic book cover. And at first glance that's exactly what they'd got 236 characters… But there's another comic that also had 236 characters on[...]