The concept of teaming popular heroes together in adventures took off. Part 2 looks at the super team as it appeared in the 80s and 90s.
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The concept of teaming popular heroes together in adventures took off. Part 2 looks at the super team as it appeared in the 80s and 90s.
Mike Gorgone looks at the pros and cons of the recent comic-to-other-media translations with a focus on Superman in this Age of Adaptation.
Isaac Willbanks explores the comic industry surrounding Alan Moore's Watchmen, giving a historical context for these stories.
In Latin America, pursuing your dreams of becoming a comic writer requires a lot of effort and dedication, but is it possible?
The concept of teaming popular heroes together in shared adventures took a few years to occur. Part 1 in this look at the early super team.
The Altogether Meh Backstory of DC’s Most Unlikely Team As I write this column, director-writer James Gunn’s first foray into the DCEU, The Suicide Squad, has hit the big (and little) screens. A “seboot” or “requel,” it’s a thrilling, violent, hilarious and occasionally moving covert ops movie starring a colorful crop of obscure DC villains […]
Orphan Training: An Examination of a Troubling Trope To paraphrase one of the most popular carpenters of 1st century Judea, “Suffer the little children to something something something” and, boy, did the creators of the Golden Age of comics take that to heart. But, then again, they would’ve been stupid to do otherwise once they […]
Excalibur Comics, Justin Zimmerman and Their Superheroic Community Work The 2020’s were hailed as the decade to put an end to the 2010’s and bring a new age of hope and enlightenment to the masses of the world. We are well past Blade Runner, and the future is finally here! Unfortunately, the exact opposite has […]
Dick's Growing Pains We all know Batman, of course. Pipe-smoking millionaire who, for no particular reason, dresses in a devil-horned cowl and little purple gloves, fighting crime in Gotham with his batarangs and trusty .45. That is, I should say, the Batman as we collectively met him in 1939. As I set forth in previous […]
It is often opined by folks being either pseudo-intellectual or snarky (or both) that the comic book superheroes are our society’s new mythology. Well, A) that’s dumb and B) get over yourselves. While readers around the world have thrilled to the four-color adventures of a heavenly multitude of superpeople for nearly a century now, the […]