Author Matthew McLean

When Hope Summers returned from the future, she triggered the rebirth of the mutant gene. Five lights then appeared on Cerebra as the powers of five new mutants activated, but these activations have been...

The Unwritten #17 is an entertaining tale with fantastic art, but beyond that it is a wonderful example of what comic books are capable of as a medium. By stepping out of the standard sequential format,...

Matthew McLean interviews Joshua Dysart, the energetic creator of comics ranging from shojo to pulp to fantasy. Dysart recently returned from his sojourn in the desert to discuss his upcoming Vertigo...

Scott Allie, long time editor at Dark Horse for such titles as Hellboy, Buffy and Conan, has set his sights on another of Robert E. Horward's characters, Solomon Kane, this time as writer. Scott sat down...

Typically, as the Reviews Editor, I help bring you the insight of our excellent reviewers. Today, though, I'm gonna ramble for a bit. Sorry. There's a fairly interesting story that came on to NPR yesterday....

Artist and co-creator of Atomic Robo, Scott Wegener sits down to talk about the upcoming second volume of the pants wearing bot. Readers who enjoyed the first outing will be pleased to know Wegener and...

This may shock and possibly even appall, but I don't use the internet to research this column. I read books, newspapers, magazines -- I have even been spotted at the library on occasion. This has the...

Brian Hurtt, artist for The Damned, took a few minutes out of his busy New York Comicon schedule to discuss his work with Oni Press. The Damned, originally a limited series, has recently spawned a second...

So how often have you heard, "well, it's just a comic book" as a justification for some horrible piece of work? Whether it's a plot hole you can drive a truck through or some contrivance, lazy creators...

So yeah… I read comics. There's an extremely high probability that if you're visiting this site, then so do you. Then me and you, we got something else in common; the reaction of others when you tell...

Mike Richardson, head of Dark Horse Comics, has recently resurrected The Gremlins, a children's book published in 1943 that eventually became a Disney property. The first issue of the new series came out on...

Right on the heels of his last Dark Horse project, Conan and the Midnight God, Joshua Dysart takes on one of comics’ most famous licenses, Hellboy in BPRD: 1946. The new title, the second issue of...

Cthulhu Tales is not your average comic book fare. Based on the prose heavy and cerebral horror of H.P. Lovecraft, bringing the cosmic terror to everybody's favorite visual medium is challenging at best....

Beginning at the end of this January, Dark Horse is launching one of its boldest cross-overs through the Star Wars line of books. Crossing over super-hero teams? Crossing over interplanetary space? That...

In the wake of the 13 part “Messiah Complex” Professor Xavier is gravely injured and the X-Men are disbanded. As such, Marvel Comics is retooling all the X-Men titles with new creative directions and...