I thought I was going to have to drop Mighty Avengers because Greg Land's art is so off-puttingly plastic. (That great art above is by Ronald Wimberly.) But the series is too damn good for me to abandon. I might even like it more than Daredevil or Hawkeye.
If you liked last year's Tomb Raider reboot, you're probably hungry for news on a sequel. Dark Horse Comics' upcoming comic adaptation isn't something you can slide into a console or PC disc slot but it does show what happens next to the young explorer. Warning: the preview below contains spoilers for last year's Tomb…
The writer who teams up two of the world's most popular superheroes every month says that Superman probably plays a lot of iPhone games. Batman? Civilization all the way, with old school board games in the mix, too. But a next-next-next-generation console being used by a supervillain might prove to be more than either…
When’s the right time for a kid to learn how to shoot a sniper rifle? What’s your kid up to when you’re not looking? Is the spy agency’s secretary really just a secretary? Comic books can answer these questions. Thank God.
Maybe it was portrayal of the Lord of the Dreaming as a mopey loner, ambling through the universe's subconscious. Or the idea that the personifications of Destiny, Death and Destruction were a squabbling yet loving family like yours. Or the way that rotating art teams seemed to capture different facets of Sandman's…
Watch and remember how cool Superman used to be. Yes, yes, we know: Superman seems like he’s always been corny, to some folks anyway. And, if you’re reading the current iteration of the character in DC Comics, Kal-El definitely feels like he’s had better days. But this Zach Snyder-directed video done for the…
Man, I was either laughing with delight or staring in awe at almost all of the cosplay you'll see in this gallery. Obscure characters, sexy gender swaps and straight-up well-executed costuming are all on display here. And it needs to be said that the dude done up as the White Queen—dubbed Emmet Frost by a friend—was…
The capes. The gadgets. The weird interpersonal relationships. The goats. Superheroes are straight-up absurd when you think about it. In 1997, a series called Quantum & Woody put that absurdity in the spotlight and won the hearts of, well, hundreds. Probably thousands. Definitely not millions, or else it wouldn't…
Look, the freshly announced Gotham TV show may wind up being great. In fact, I hope the Fox series turns out to be the next evolutionary step in translating comic book lore for television. But, honestly, how excited can you get about a Batman TV show that doesn’t have Batman?
SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF MAN OF STEEL.
Don’t let the appealingly cartoony look of Boxers & Saints fool you. Terrible things happen in this graphic novel. Old men get beaten up. Women and children get killed in rather heartless fashion. And, worst of all, the senseless death that happens in the 500-page opus is based on actual events. But, goddamn, is it…
Mighty Avengers just became my favorite mainstream comic, because it’s giving me something that I’ve been wishing for forever. Brown superheroes, broke superheroes, jerk superheroes, all of them barely getting along but having to save the world any damn way.
Uh-Oh! It’s a Big Science Threat! Better get the Oddly-Mannered-Yet-Brilliant-Scientist from the Shiny Research Place on the phone. What’s that? His budget’s been cut? Who’s the guy with the baseball cap and jeans? We need a lab coat, dammit!
If you’re a well-heeled sci-fi fan, you probably know about the rarely-seen rough draft of Star Wars. It’s crazy different, with characters that have similar roles but different names, among other things. Today, Dark Horse Comics’ adaptation of that early pass hits store shelves. Myself and Mike Fahey have read…
It's one of time travel’s quintessential conundrums: do you go back into your own life if the technology allows? How bad do things have to get for you to break spacetime rules like that? Well, in the new comics series The Bunker, things get pretty bad. Apocalyptically so.
This video celebrating comics is great. It nods at everything from old Sunday newspaper strips to Silver Age superhero epics and underground mini-comics. But, I’m sure that when Stephen Totilo watches it, he will be very disturbed by the lack of Grant Morrison.
You’ve always wanted to know how the Punisher makes decisions, haven’t you? Or when exactly comic books got so damn expensive? Well, then, take a look at the gloriously helpful information design in this beautiful new book about superheroes.
Seeing as how it’s an unbreakable metal, the adamantium that laces Wolverine’s bones is probably hella expensive. But, cripes, it costs a whole hell of a lot more now.
Tony Stark may have the technological know-how and Bruce Wayne is probably better with nocturnal photography but really Peter Parker would probably them have them both beat if superhero Instagram actually existed.
Being a damn-near immortal killing machine comes with a lot of angst. Friends die, people stab you and those claws hurt every single time they pop out of your forearms. So it’s understandable that Wolverine screams a lot. Want to see every time actor Hugh Jackman screams in the movies featuring the iconic, Canadian…