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This Week’s New Comics: March 27, 2013
This week’s list of new comics in stores is sponsored by Manhattan Comics and Comixology. Buy new comics now!
In Memoriam: Bill Hicks
[[[Bill Hicks]]] died twenty years ago today, February 26, 1994. Most comic book fans know him from his appearance in Preacher #31, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon: Here’s the man at work, in a segment that David Letterman removed from his show: This was his final statement: February 7, 1994 – I was born…
Persons of story, by John Ostrander
Today is Thanksgiving and a hearty Happy Thanksgiving to you all. As it turns out, it’s also the birthday of my late wife, Kimberly Ann Yale, who would have been 54 today. This is a day for stopping and giving thanks for the good things in your life and so I’ll ask your indulgence while…
‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army’ Trailer Online
ByWade GumYahoo Movies has posted the first trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The trailer features all the things you’d expect from a Hellboy adaptation and a Guillermo del Toro film: huge monsters, fantastic art direction, action-packed fights and plenty of grumblings from the big red hero. The sequel to 2004’s Hellboy, the film follows…
MARTHA THOMASES: About genres
Over the weekend I started to read Will Self’s most recent novel, The Book of Dave. Like so much of Self’s work, this volume could quite comfortably be racked in the science fiction section of your bookstore. Set five or six centuries in a post-apocalyptic future, English culture has evolved based on its sacred text,…

