When examining a work whose mythology is an expansive as Star Wars, it almost becomes a historiographical investigation as opposed to a literary one. [09.Feb.12]
I'm sure the smile used by Becky Cloonan to signal her enjoyment is a perfectly good smile. But the smile she draws on Conan is sublime. It opens the character in a way very few writers have been capable of. [07.Feb.12]
Action #6's "When Superman Learned to Fly" reminds us poignantly that the superhero's struggle is never against their inner demons, but a never-ending battle to overcome the siren's call of mediocrity. [06.Feb.12]
You can't possibly expect to write a book called Lobster Johnson and push the Lobster to the very edge of the very first issue can you? I mean that wouldn't work, would it? And therein lies the genius of Mike Mignola. [02.Feb.12]
Before Grant Morrison's JLA, the creative challenge for any Justice League writer was the overpowered Superman. With JLA Batman became the writer's peril. But with Justice League #5 Geoff Johns introduces a new kind of creative danger. [31.Jan.12]
After a philosophical split with Cyclops over care for the next generation of mutants, Wolverine returns to upstate New York, to the roots of the X-Men to rebuild the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. [30.Jan.12]
ADD offers a flawless animation of the passions and concerns regularly voiced by media theorist Douglas Rushkoff in his nonfiction. [26.Jan.12]
In Valen the Outcast writer Michael Alan Nelson reverses the usual trend of the Zombie genre by presenting a king-turned-zombie on a quest for redemption. [24.Jan.12]
