I don’t know why the story reprinted in I Can’t Believe It’s Not the Justice League so obviously positioned itself as a one-time one-off. As a former editor and current marketer, I’m strongly against interrupting customers while they’re buying your stuff, but I’m not DC Comics. And this book does make it clear, in little…
How far back am I looking today? Well, Formerly Known as the Justice League collects a miniseries that came out in 2003, so that’s fifteen years. But that miniseries was itself explicitly a throwback to the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Justice League series, which launched in 1987 — so that’s another fifteen-ish years further back, for a total of thirty-one…
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…
âWhat we heard was that people didnât want any more diversity. They didnât want female characters out there. Thatâs what we heard, whether we believe that or not.â Marvel VP of Sales David Gabriel, Marvel Retailer Summit, March 2017 âLet’s find a place they say, somewhere far away, With no blacks, no Jews and no…
Last week I gave a review of the Suicide Squad movie. This week, I’m talking about my trip to NYC for the premiere. I got in to the East Coast on 7/31 and stayed with my friends Tam and Kev English over in New Jersey, near to where I used to live. Tom Mandrake and…
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Just when I decided that maybe DC’s “Rebirth” might possibly be worthy – yes, I know, I had the same hopes for Batman v Superman – the other shoe dropped. Back in the 1990s I perceived DC as a centipede, with (obviously) 100 shoes…
Dichotomies. Every day brings hundreds if not thousands of choices. The red blouse vs. the blue blouse. Filet mignon vs. butt steak. Marvel vs. DC. Sugar and Spike vs. Guido Crepax. Which to pick? Right now IâÂÂm struggling between writing about two totally different types of comics, and here âÂÂtotallyâ is an understatement. Fantagraphics just…
Dwayne McDuffie and I were friends, good friends. When he first came to LA from New York, I was the one who drove him around for weeks. He didn’t drive. Who does in New York? I took him shopping to the barbershop, comic book stores, wherever. If he needed to go somewhere, I was his…
I cribbed the information contained herein from the piece written by our pal Rich Johnston over at his Bleeding Cool website which, for what it’s worth, I endorse for its honesty and professionalism. But instead of simply posting the link and letting it speak for itself, I shall wax poetic. It’s easy to blame all sorts…
Written by Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens, and Keith Giffen. Art by Aaron Lopresti, Art Thibert, and Hi-Fi. I beg you, dear reader, to not skim over the author credits in this review. Azzarello. Lemire. Jurgens. Giffen. A master of noir, the macabre, cape and cowl, and team action. I want you to let…
FUTURES END #1 Written by Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens and Keith Giffen Art by Patrick Zircher I won’t lie to you, this book’s got me confused. It starts in the semi-distant future of the time of Batman Beyond, a world that has been taken over by the latest iteration of Brother Eye, a…
Mike Richardson CEO, publisher and owner has ordered a hit on me. Here’s the story… Over a decade ago I sold a project to DC Comics and that deal fell apart. Why? Why does the phone always ring when you are in the bathroom? Why do gay people join the GOP? Why from behind certain…
