I’ve said it before! Are they trying to make each book seem soulless and artistically uninspired at this point?
This weekend DC announced ten new titles, exactly one of which (Keith Giffen’s new Doom Patrol) was announced with a creative mind in tow.
FBB will be attending the New York Comic Con, and with any luck will be posting coverage throughout the weekend. We’ll also be wrapping up the con with a special podcast, which we promise will not be a posse cut this time, though we’re not ruling out guest stars.
If you’re attending the show would like [...]
What most of the people involved with this site know about Jon Bernhardt but you, the Anonymous Reader, do not is that he, much like everyone else who reads comics, would like to write comics, preferably in exchange for money and some press. You know, a Newsarama interview or two every six months, followed by [...]
Not really comics-related, but here goes:
This weekend 826NYC is holding a benefit event, its second annual “Scrabble for Cheaters” tournament. All proceeds go to 826NYC, a nonprofit writing lab and tutoring center in Brooklyn where I’ve volunteered for the past few years.
This year I am also competing in the SFC tournament as part [...]
Justice League of America #29
Why? Because they don’t!
A couple of weeks ago or so, I read an interview with Len Wein that involved his upcoming work - the Final Crisis: Secret Files, which I knew about, and the Superman/Batman Annual, but Justice League of America #29? That’s odd, a straight-up writer change? Why wouldn’t they [...]
As David posted earlier, Bill Willingham and others have used Spider-Man’s nod to Obamamania as a springboard to discuss how comic books have been taken over by liberals. You’d think that Ted Rall and Noam Chomsky are the current Editors-in-Chief at Marvel and DC the way they talk! Outspoken conservatives like Chuck Dixon and James [...]
Why? Because I’m far from qualified to review anything this good. I almost want to hire Kakutani or Hitchens for this one. One of the things that I tend to forget when innundated by the flood of mediocre or terrible comics that will always have a disproportionately large place in our discussion is that we [...]
After reading X-Men Noir, I wondered why Marvel would want to publish a four part noir re-imagining of super hero comic. I had low expectations for Spider-Man Noir, but I discovered myself engaged in the book in a similar way to how I engage with a trashy but competent noir film, let’s say Out of [...]
I’d just like to take a moment for us all to recognize the best thing ever.
Earth A.D.: A Map of the World of Kamandi!
Man, why don’t they ever do it like this anymore? Millar’s doing his best with the new map of America in Old Man Logan, but that’s nothing in comparison to this creative [...]
If you think you can leave any sort of lasting legacy, you’re deluded. And I was deluded for a long time. But we live and we learn.
- Mark Waid
I really, really love Superman: Birthright.
More than any other story, to me, it defines what Clark, Kal, the Kents and the House of El represent and [...]
This is some stuff I started writing a few weeks ago, when Amazing Spider-Man #577 and JSA Kingdom Come Special: Superman had just hit. It’s a bit late now, but I sort of like where I was going with it, so I’m gonna finish it off anyway.
The week of November 12 was pretty lackluster, but [...]
We’re doing a podcast this weekend looking back on the soon-to-be collected Astonishing X-Men run by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. Re-reading the series, it struck me that the series started shortly after Grant Morrison left New X-Men, which turned out to be almost five years ago. So I dug up release dates for Whedon [...]
Over in a comment thread to Jeff Lester’s recent (and very funny) review of Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns, Chad Nevett points out that
it seems every hero that was unique and alone in the past five years has discovered “Oh no, there are tons of you guys!” Kind of lame.
It hadn’t really hit [...]
This week saw the release of DC Universe Halloween Special 2008. It wasn’t a very good comic, but the first page deserves some special attention. The framing sequence (starting on the page reproduced below) was written by DC Executive Editor Dan Didio, who also co-edited DCUHS08 alongside Eddie Berganza. Check it out:
Wow. So let’s look [...]
You might be fooled if you come from out of town.
-Snoop Dogg
Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
New York Four
Minx
New Yorkers born in the outer boroughs live in a city unfamiliar to newcomers (in my mind, newcomers are people who’ve lived here for less than thirty years) and most native Manhattanites. To some, it’s a lost dystopia, [...]