Comics Archives

The Return To The X-Men, Blue And Gold
The X-Men Regenesis teasers being issued by Marvel Comics seem to be falling into two camps Those with Blue logos and those with yellow Each colour seem to be setting up a common background as well, with images slotting together. Is Schism bringing  the return to the Blue and Gold teams of the nineties? And do[...]
A Comic Show – Getting All Giddy For Two Weeks Time
Aaron and Tri Force Mike of A Comic Shop are excited about the relaunch in two weeks and their Midnight Release Party for Flashpoint and Justice League and look through the goodbye comics out tomorrow, including Flashpoint Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Legion Of Doom and The Outsider, all leading into Flashpoint #5 And second[...]
The Big Lie Isn't Just A Truther Text… It's An EC Comic
Coming into comics in the seventies, he worked on  horror and war comics with a twist that were heavily influenced by the origins in William Gaines' EC comics Something nasty in the woodshed, a overall sense of foreboding, the grisly only finally revealed in the last panels It's a sensibility he used in The One,[...]
Swipe File: Mike Deodato And Neal Adams
I've noted of late that Mike Deodato, ever a man who can switch srtistic styles in comics, has been veering towards Neal Adams of late. Well the appearance of Daredevil on the cover of New Avengers #17 by Deodato does seem to bear a certain similarity to this famous Neal Adams Batman pose… I've noted[...]
Stan Lee To Sign Hidden Copies Of Ultimates #1 And Hawkeye #1
All the Ultimate Comics will ship with their first issue in a polybag Superficially this is to avoid spoilers, the kind that Marvel give to the New York press the Monday evening before the comics ship. But both Ultimate Comics: Ultimates and Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye will ship with a "chase" signature in a limited number of[...]
Gendercrunching July 2011 – Apples With Apples
The slew of big summer event tie-ins resulted in more books than usual, but these books don't seem to be doing much in terms of female creators. DC COMICS DC finally settled down a bit this month after having a rollercoaster of a spring on a week-to-week basis In July 2011, DC released 86 new comics with[...]
Tuesday Runaround – A Wasp Eye View Of Avengers
However, with the convention floor more packed than ever and lines for guest panels snaking through the halls, it's clear that there's a rather large audience for what Wizard World offers. AustraliaWatch: It's not just Robert Crumb. He knew one thing – he had to have Seekae for Silent Comics, an event that pairs[...]
Monday Trending Topics: Pose Like Wonder Woman
Rich should run a contest like this at a convention sometime, I think. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Winners Of The Pose-Like-Wonder-Woman Contest Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors Two weeks ago, we ran an image based on an original by Colasquid, that had been updated and improved by denizens of 4chan/co, showing a[...]
Mr Terrific Has Its Third Solicited Art Team In Three Issues
With DC Comics releasing their November solicitations, we can take a look at how the relaunch is handling the creative teams on tight deadlines and no allowance for late books. But no book seems to be suffering this attention more than Mister Terrific All three issues are written by Eric Wallace with covers by JG Jones[...]
Nick Spencer Brings Back The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
How did Nick Spencer arrange an exclusive contract with Marvel that still allows him to write a comic for DC Comics? Put it down to the ex politician's skill at playing both companies off against each other until he got the deal he wanted… And so you get the Thunder Agents you wanted too[...]
DC To Release Elseworlds Eighty Page Giant… Finally
Or, from DC's point of view at the time, because it had been hardly published. I was also told that objections went beyind the Superbaby-in-the-microwave scene, but to Mark Waid and Ty Templeton's recasting of the Garden of Eden with Batman and Eve, Batman known as "Adam" in a very sixties TV style way… Anyway, twelve years[...]
Look!  It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh #111: Riots In The Head
It's one of those angry, ambitious political comics about discontent and insurrection even more hardcore than Brian Wood's excellent DMZ, whose hero is a middle-class journalist who could use his social standing to keep an emotional and intellectual distance from the balkanized New York he chose to stay in so as to chronicle its stand[...]