I learned last week that Tony DeZuniga, co-creator of the DC Comics character, Jonah Hex, passed away last week. Mr. DeZuniga penciled many books for DC and Marvel from the 1970s on, including Batman, Detective Comics, Phantom Stranger, Vigilante, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor and countless others. His most famous work, however was on Jonah Hex. [...]
I’m on a personal quest to discover which comics are still relevant to me today. I’ve loved the form my entire life–particularly the super-hero genre. Over the years, I’ve fallen away from the super-heroes; barbarian phase, independent phase, Vertigo phase, adult phase, and back around to super-heroes again. DC’s New 52 pulled me strongly back [...]
Love it or hate it, the new John Carter movie has spawned a lot of contemporary conversation about the books, comics, illustrations, fanzines–everyone has an opinion! My first exposure to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian tales was in the third or fourth grade. My parents got me one of the editions with the wicked cool Michael [...]
Pamela Mullin, editor at Vertigo, posted Paul Cornell’s pitch for SAUCER COUNTRY on the Vertigo blog the other day. As a writer and a writing teacher, I have to admit that I love stuff like this. It gives us insight into the mind of the creator, and also reveals a pitch that was actually accepted [...]
Last month, DC Comics announced a series of controversial prequels to, possibly, the most influential comic mini-series of all time: The Watchmen. The prequels are: RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones DR. MANHATTAN (4 [...]
Hickman continues his epic run with the Fantastic Four family. Threats, not just from this universe, converge on the Earth. Let’s hope the World’s Greatest Heroes can save the day. Best cold open in a comic in recent memory. This is a great follow up to [...]
I’m writing this week from Honolulu, Hawaii, where it is a beautiful 80 degrees. I’m here for business, attending a telecoms conference where market analysts present slide after slide of statistical data while the sun sinks slowly into the Pacific. As I was sitting in one of these sessions this morning, learning about the net [...]
Shy of two months ago I had never read Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series. I had only heard good things about the series, but was unable to read it because vol 1 seemed to elude me for so long. Two months ago by some miracle I was able to sit down and over the course of [...]
This week saw the release of Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes, a $6.99 one-shot that ended the “first season” of Grant Morrison’s latest (and possibly last) Batman epic. The art (by Cameron Stewart and Chris Burnham) was quite good, and the story was surreal on multiple levels, which is pretty much par for the course with [...]
There is an interesting article over at Newsarama that asks fans why new characters and concepts struggle. Obviously, this is a problem not only for comics, but pretty much every corner of the entertainment world. I am absolutely sick of remakes at the movies and on TV. Reading the article got me to thinking about [...]
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