This is the final part of my conversation with comics writer Robert Loren Fleming on the tragic backstory and forgotten history of DC’s Thriller comic book series. As I explained last week, this is actually an addendum to my recent article on this 80s cult favorite in TwoMorrow’s Back Issue Magazine. Thriller was poised to…
This is what being an ally looks like. And it’s funny, too! There are far too few comics that make me giggle like the little girl I am inside this old body. Ambush Bug. Anything by Kyle Baker. Alan Moore’s D. R. and Quinch. And just about anything written and drawn by Evan Dorkin. I…
It’s ironic that on a day that many people in the world are talking about the Beatles in one form or another, people in the comics industry are asking if Paul is dead. Certainly, you don’t see this amount of coverage of a man’s life until his funeral. It reminds one of Twain: “They say…
Yes, he’s back from the recycling bin! It’s Cheeks, the Toy Wonder as a newly forged Black Lantern! Now we know why Ambush Bug #6 has been delayed, it had to tie in with Blackest Night… …okay, maybe not. Still, the art from Thom Zahler, the big galoot behind Love And Capes, is still important,…
Showcase Presents: Ambush Bug Vol. 1 Plot & Pencils by Keith Giffen, Script by Robert Loren Fleming, Inks by Bob Oksner (for most of the stories) DC Comics, March 2009, $16.99 We all have to look back at the comics of our youth once in a while. It’s not always a pleasant experience, particularly when…
We wind up our exclusive interview with Bruce Campbell by posting the question Bruce gets almost daly – what’s next for Evil Dead? He cuts to that with a chainsaw here plus: Lost gets a premiere date Rudolph goes digital When is the next Kick Ass coming? Bruce says Press the Button, nube! …
Ambush Bug is back… and there was much rejoicing. According to a recent announcement on Newsarama, Keith Giffen will be returning to Ambush Bug, the character he created in 1980s to point a finger at some the silliness of some of the goings-on in the DC Universe at the time. The six-issue Ambush Bug miniseries…
The official Comics Should Be Good “Reason to Love Comics” for Monday was my man Keith Giffen. (“My man” in the sense that I agree that he’s totally awesome, not that I’ve ever met the guy.) And once again, I must demand Ambush Bug trade paperbacks to make the world the kind of place it…
Some of us are total suckers for magic. I mean, let’s be honest, all that super-science stuff that purports to explain how people have superpowers and everything — how different is that really than just saying "He flies? She shoots beams from her eyes? It’s magic!" To some of us it’s all much of a…
