If you haven’t read that Ed Brubaker interview, well, get on that. Then come on back and read our scribbles. But, seriously, I walked away from that interview excited. Because Brubaker’s been a favorite of mine for years now, and to see a guy in his position say “enough’s enough” and make a move to [...]

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times before: for me it’s far more important for a superhero comic to be fun than be seeped in gritty realism. Now keep in mind that this isn’t to say that the genre can’t do serious stories or that other genres can’t contain equally fun aspects that [...]

Have you ever wanted something to be better than it was? I mean really wanted something to better? Something you don’t have any personal investment in but once you get through it all you can think is, “Man, I really wish that was better.” That sentiment was all that stayed in my head after reading [...]

You remember Toonami? Had all those shows on that I watched in sixth grade? Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing, Ronin Warriors, Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star and all that? Blue Sub 6 was interesting but it was only like six episodes long. Well anyway they say Tenchi Muyo introduced America to “harem anime” which established a bunch of [...]

The Balkan war of the 90s was weird from my point of view. I mean, it was the first time I saw ‘soldiers’ who carried assault rifles but wore jeans and T-shirts. Aren’t they supposed to have uniforms and stuff? Joe Sacco’s War’s End sums up the war pretty succinctly in one picture in the [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of stories lately, and I don’t mean power in the way a story can make you feel on an emotional level. I mean power in the way that they can shape our perceptions. The perception of the American West after the Civil War was often touted as [...]

We’re about to drop a bomb on your head. Welcome back, you internet scoundrels. New column. New writing. Same comics. Kind of. This week, I break down Jonathan Hickman’s masterpiece, The Nightly News. Shawn Starr rips off Chad Nevett’s Random Thoughts, and Rick Vance takes us through Shonen manga, explaining the use of violence. I [...]

Words tend to have certain connotations. I’m going to ask that you suspend this extra context when I give you my brief review of Dead Meat: Dead Meat is, potentially, the messiest comic I have ever read. The plot is one that we are fairly familiar with, albeit tweaked with new flavor; society has fallen [...]

by Brandon Beck When I was a kid, one of the first things I wanted to be when I grew up was a cartoonist. Having gorged myself on Calvin & Hobbes, Foxtrot and, oddly enough for a 4th grader, Dilbert, being a cartoonist seemed like the coolest job ever. If growing up and realizing that [...]

Channel Zero, as you may or may not be aware, is an old (circa 1997) comic series from Brian Wood. HOWEVER, Dark Horse has just released a new collection of the work. And to make it even better, there’s a prequel story in the collection illustrated by Becky Cloonan. So that’s sexy. The re-release of the [...]

Hiya. Here we are, back, with more comicbook discussion content for your perusal. Shawn Starr and Joey Aulisio present a conversation on Michael DeForge’s Spotting Deer (something I really need to read) while Chad Nevett returns to look at Before Watchmen‘s pirate strip, “The Curse of the Crimson Corsair.” We also have a newcomer to [...]

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