Thursday, January 10 2013
Second Star to the Right… The Contextual Usage of “Fan Fiction”
Earlier on in the Batman storyarc "Death of the Family", we were introduced to the idea of the Joker as court jester, but this obfuscates seeing him for what he is: Peter Pan…
Tuesday, January 8 2013
The Best Comic Book Moments in 2012 Movies
The comic book movie boom we've been riding for a little over a decade now has shown no signs of going bust. If anything, the boom is only getting bigger and more comic-bookish.
Friday, December 28 2012
Doomsday Island Discs: The PopMatters Comics 2012 Wrap
PopMatters Comics Editor Shathley Q and Associate Editor Michael D. Stewart didn't get to talking about everything…only the things they connected with emotionally, and the ideas that these things brought them into…Here it is, your view of comics, superheroes and transmedia…Enjoy it in good health, this Mayan Doomsday…
Friday, December 14 2012
Dream a Little Dream: Amazing Spider-Man and ‘Dying Wish’
It's not right on the cusp of Amazing Spider-Man #700, writer Dan Slott takes us back to 80s body-swap comedies, or even that those comedies have a pedigree in Gilded Age satire…it's what pushing Spidey into those genre do to the hero's characterization…
Thursday, December 13 2012
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Finally: A Hard Look at “Avengers #1”
After the success of Joss Whedon's summer blockbuster the Avengers, there needs to be a title that captures the essence of the movies while retaining the force and the intricacies of the comicbooks. Jonathan Hickman's Avengers is that series.
Tuesday, December 11 2012
Humble Beginnings: Ed Brubaker’s “Scene of the Crime”
In some sense, Scene of the Crime birthed the universe of grifters, drug runners, and unlucky bar flies that help make Ed Brubaker's books what they are…
Friday, December 7 2012
Black Friday Boogie: The Exclusive with “Filmation Generation’s” Andy Mangels
It's the kind of conversation that can only play out on Black Friday, sequel to what this year became know as Black Thursday, the day we used to call Thanksgiving…
Thursday, November 29 2012
Yours Is the Cloth, Mine’s the Hand That Sews Time: DC’s ‘Throne of Atlantis’
In "Throne of Atlantis", the crossover that spans both Justice League and Aquaman, writer and DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns sees the culmination of a theme decades in the making. Enjoy a sneak preview…
Wednesday, November 21 2012
Then and Noir: Valiant’s Reclaiming of Shadowman, and of the ‘90s
In the '90s, Valiant set the bar for comics very high by blending together modern art and characterization with storytelling modes of classic horror comics from the '70s. But did they set the bar impossibly high? Even for their own relaunch 20 years after?
Thursday, November 15 2012
I Belong with You, You Belong with Me: New York Comic Con 2012
The soul-crushing, heartrending exuberance of a voyage through "everyone's happy place"…
Thursday, November 8 2012
What Dr. Tyson Saw: Krypton, Superman and the “Death” of Pluto
I don't know Neil Dregrasse Tyson, we've never met, but to me, he's just about as mythic as Superman himself…
Thursday, November 1 2012
Halloween After the Rain: The Ghost of the Promise of Comics, Circa 1992
It's four in the morning on Halloween night, and it's a time to begin rebuilding as much the comics industry as the devastation left in the wake of Sandy.
Thursday, October 25 2012
How Visualization Becomes Poetry: On Halloween and “Do Androids Dream…?”
It will be Halloween soon enough, and surprisingly, perhaps a key to Halloween can be found in Tony Parker's critically acclaimed comics adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel that formed the basis for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
Thursday, October 18 2012
‘Thor’ Reconsidered As Both Vital and Dangerous for Marvel Studios
With the end The Mighty Thor, perhaps now's the perfect time to reconsider Kenneth Branagh's critical box office success as a metaphor for the challenges facing the upcoming Thor: God of Thunder.
Monday, October 15 2012
Diary of a Drones Developer in ‘Think Tank’
Think Tank, the story of a scientist working on covert weapons development, couldn't have come at a better time.
Wednesday, October 10 2012
Slouching Towards Babylon, Waiting to be Born: “MAD”, Bond, Vegas, Empire
What happens when Vegas is everywhere? MAD's recent blog post about nude Royals provides a vital clue to the nature of the post-Empire moment…
Wednesday, October 3 2012
New York Minutes: Zero Month Exclusive with Christy Marx and Justin Jordan
Over a late NY lunch-hour, and in the space of just one minute, both Christy Marx and Justin Jordan articulate grand-vision views of the New 52, of Zero Month, and the ongoing relevance of popculture.
Wednesday, September 26 2012
Catwoman Is Not Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
Catwoman does not exist. By the end of The Dark Knight Rises we see, what could be, the end of Batman. And in a future without Batman, Selina becomes the rebound girl for a man who just dumped his alter ego…
Wednesday, September 19 2012
Mentor and Protégé, Talents Forward: The Exclusive with Snyder and Tynion
Says Snyder, “I think writing comics, you have to have that North Star for each thing you are working on”…
Monday, September 17 2012
Dead of Winter: Snowy Graves in Contemporary Horror Comics
If low temperatures don't bring death in today's horror comics, they're almost always the ideal setting for it.
