New York, NY— February 25, 2026 — This summer, Marvel Comics and DC Comics join forces to bring JLA/AVENGERS, the 2003 limited series by legendary creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez, back to comic shops! The history-making four-issue saga will be boldly re-presented in its original form as new Facsimile Editions with original trade dress…
I did this before. Halfway through this book, it started to feel awfully familiar, and so I committed the sin we all do these days: I googled myself. And so I found that I covered this book with a mouthful of a title, Astro City: The Dark Age, Vol. 1: Brothers & Other Strangers ,…
We really don’t need any more origin stories. OK, maybe if it’s integrated — a quick flashback during something else — it’s not so bad. But, please, not a whole story just to show us how the guy we already know got to the place we’ve seen him. Boooo-ring. Writers Kurt Busiek and Len Wein…
Embellishment. Is it a dirty word, especially when it comes to writing? Well, it depends. Simply put, there must be no embellishment when writing for a professional journal. The truth must be told. There is a big difference between writing for a professional journal and writing fiction, or even this column. Writing for a professional…
Press Release – For Immediate Release GIDEON CAIN: DEMON HUNTER Now Smites Evil—via Kindle! Puritan Swordsman’s Adventures Debut on Amazon’s Popular e-Reader Smithton, IL (October 27, 2011) White Rocket Books proudly announces the release in Kindle format of Gideon Cain: Demon Hunter, the multi-award-nominated Sword-and-Sorcery anthology co-created by Van Allen Plexico (SENTINELS; LUCIAN) and Kurt…
A Review Of Granton City Press’s UNIT 13 By Andrew Salmon With the New Pulp movement in full swing these days it’s high time pulp fans took a look at what our fellow pulpsters north of the border are up to. Case in point: Unit 13 The Horrors of Altenschatten by Calvin Daniels and…
Imagine if comic books had trailers like movies and TV shows to build up buzz and get mainstream audiences excited. Now imagine no more! DC Comics released a movie-style trailer for the new weekly comic Trinity. Starring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, the series is being written by Kurt Busiek and drawn by Mark Bagley….
Kurt Busiek’s brain is about average-sized, I assume. And yet it contains this entire city, detailed down to every last resident’s personality and scrap of trash in the street. His mastery of [[[Astro City]]] is on full display in the latest collection of the WildStorm series, The Dark Age ($29.99). Busiek ventures back to the…
First things first: I actually, gasp, liked this issue. For the first time ever, Kurt Busiek pulled the storylines together and gave a sense of the big things ahead. Not perfect, but much better than the past few. What happened? The fight against Konvikt finally reached an end, as Batman’s smarts helped the big three…
It’s time we talked about Kurt Busiek. He’s the brain behind this weekly operation and, in case you’re new to comics, he’s one hell of a writer. And there’s one particular quality that sets him apart. His comics matter. I don’t mean this in the sense that he does event comics (although Trinity certainly qualifies…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This week we begin a new regular feature on ComicMix in which we’ll review DC’s latest weekly series, Trinity, featuring a story by comics legend Kurt Busiek and art by one of the industry’s biggest names, Mark Bagley. Join us every week as ComicMix contributor Van Jensen analyzes the most recent issue of…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This week we begin a new regular feature on ComicMix in which we’ll review DC’s latest weekly series, Trinity, featuring a story by comics legend Kurt Busiek and art by one of the industry’s biggest names, Mark Bagley. Join us every week as ComicMix contributor Van Jensen analyzes the most recent issue of…
