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An Elegant Hack: “Batman #35”
Batman #35 shows how current writer Scott Snyder manages to subtly subvert the New 52's narrative vector.
Standalone, Complex: “B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth #124”
How do you take an image as powerful as Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks", and turn it into a tale about inherent social collapse? If you're Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Tyler Crooks, the answer is, "quite easily".
All Tomorrow’s Progs: An Exclusive Preview of “2000AD: Winter Special ’14”
After an 18-year absence on the global stage of popculture, the 2000 AD Specials returned earlier this year. The Winter Special is a thematic return to the magazine's roots.
That Old, Black Thaumaturgy: Scott Snyder’s “Wytches”
Wytches marks a radically important turning point in Scott Snyder's evolution as a writer. And thereby hangs a tale…
The Act of Disenthralling Ourselves: Exclusive Preview of ‘Aquaman and the Others’
A comicbook couldn’t reflect the relevance of Lincoln’s thoughts, could it?
The Day the Old Batman-town Steel Mill Shut Down
Imagine Batman, the whole of the intellectual property, the full weight of publication and production history, now 75 years on from its inception, and imagine it as a town.
Is the Past Merely Epilogue?: Nostalgia, After “The Fox”
What writer-artist Dean Haspiel and co-plotter Mark Waid achieve with Red Circle’s The Fox: Freak Magnet is nothing short of amazing—the simultaneous dismantling and honoring of the golden age of pulp.