Even for an established and award winning television writer like Steven Moffat, taking command of a 45 year old universe is a little daunting. In the first part of our exclusive ComicMix interviews with the top BBC talents, he tells us his outlook for the future, plus: Dave Gibbons shares his reaction to seeing The…
It’s nearly a week since Comic-Con ended, but still it haunts my dreams. I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, then the fifth largest city in Ohio (behind Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Akron), yet there were more people in the San Diego convention center. I think all of them walked by our booth. If they were…
This ridiculous villain thing has officially gone too far. First, we have the “evil trinity” of Despero, Morgaine Le Fey and Enigma. Then there’s been Howlers galore and a trio of baddies headlined by the Eraser or White Out or whatever his name is. And now? Swashbuckler! He shows up amid the chaos of the…
A pretty slow week in comics, as everyone’s still gasping for breath post Comic-Con (including me, even though I stayed at home this year). Not even a dozen books worth reading this week, and I somehow missed the JSA annual. Still, some interesting stuff, with a strong DC showing. Book of the Week: Blue Beetle…
This week we’ll be looking at three books with main characters who look like one thing, but are something else. Nephilim, Vol. 1 By Anna Hanamaki Aurora, May 2008, $10.95 On a continent with the unlikely name of Elwestland, two political powers – with the is-it-quitting-time-on-Friday-already? names of “The Empire” and “The Federation” – are…
I had a particularly bad day after the San Diego Comic Con was over. I don’t feel like sharing nor do I feel like writing about it. There are times when I don’t trust myself with my Mac and I fear whatever I write at those times would come back to haunt me. It’s like…
Slow Storm By Danica Novgorodoff First Second, September 2008, $19.95 This is Novgorodoff’s first full-length graphic novel; she was an Eisner nominee last year for the one-shot [[[A Late Freeze]]]. She’s got an assured, pseudo-outsider art style, with big blocks of color and slablike faces, but her writing isn’t quite up to the same level…
It had to happen. The Presidential Battle spills over into the comic shops with a one-of-a-kind new set of graphic novels from IDW, plus: “Superboy” and The Legion on TV Doctor Solar and Magnus back again Make room for a stack of interesting titles from Ape Entertainment Press the Button – it’s just like casting…
Shmobots is a pretty stupid book on its face. And it’s pretty stupid inside too. Government negligence leads to a city full of worthless robots (termed [[[Shmobots]]]), and three of the laziest ones hang out with a guy and do pretty much nothing with their lives. The humore here — from writer Adam Rifkin —…
Canadian webcomic creator Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics is another one of those projects that defies the norm in the comics world and succeeds despite all of the very good reasons why it shouldn’t. I mean, come on, folks: A series in which the art never changes, and readers just get day after day of a…
The sequence of numbers 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 sit at the top of each page of the superlative new horror graphic novel The Number by Swedish artist Thomas Ott.. Those repeated numbers create a cadence to the book, a dark rhythm drummed into readers’ heads that’s further instilled through Ott’s consistent use of four panels per page. The…
We’re back from Comic Con and ready to hit the comic shop in search of so much we saw previewed on the floor in San Diego, plus: Kal (Kumar) Penn shows us how he landed on Fox’s House Keith Giffen prepares us for this week’s visit to the DC Version Of Hell ComicMix‘s Denny O’Neil…
