A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans
[T]hings don’t have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
Grant Morrison, Supergods
Recently, I wrote about the magic behind 100-issue runs. The big, sprawling, majesty of the stories that take decades to tell. I have also spoken at length to literally anyone who will listen about my love of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jill Thompson, and other high-brow creators. And I do love them, to my very marrow. [Read more…] about Only in Comics: What Makes Comic Books Special
This week on “Previously On,” I re-read New X-Men in the context of Hickman’s X-Men, worry about the Avengers video game, and fall in love with unintentionally funny Marvel Comics emails. [Read more…] about Previously On #73: New X-Men Redux, Avengers Video Game teaser, & Marvel’s Hilarious PR Emails
Ladies and gentleman, children of all ages, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of the nuclear family. Our finest television preachers and our sweatiest politicians spent decades warning us that we were headed this way. They decried music, drugs, and dancing, and we eradicated those things. But what they could not have known was that the true destruction of the familial unit was magic. Our children have turned to godless magic and now all is lost.
So today, brothers and sisters, we gather here to witness the fourth installment in What the Hell is Anime, and we examine where it all went wrong. Families up front, let your feet stomp to the spirituals.
This week on “Previously On,” I review the Warren Ellis written The Wild Storm, discuss the closure of Vertigo and how it fits in today’s culture, and celebrate the few, the proud, the floppy comic readers on public transit. [Read more…] about Previously On #72: The Wild Storm, Measuring Vertigo’s Popularity, & Commuter Comics
We have all come to accept that men and women can fly. That aliens walk among us. And that, with the right fashion accessory, any one of us could construct an old-timey elevator out of green light and use it to bring people to space.
These are accepted facts.
So why then does it seem so ridiculous to give one of these people a car? Why is a space ship more ridiculous than a cape? What about The Atomic Steed makes it so impossibly, inherently stupid? And why is the Batmobile okay, but the Spider-car is not?
I believe that the answer to all of these questions and more are rooted in cold, simple, scientific fact. I’m going to prove it to you in my exhaustive study/grant solicitation. But first, the rules. [Read more…] about The Stupidest Super-Vehicles Ever and the Science Behind Them