A year ago, I volunteered to write about a terrible, over-hyped yet historically important event comic book called Crisis on Infinite Earths and, proving that I don’t learn shit, I volunteered to write about...
Full disclosure: I ate the donuts. Donuts shaped like “D” and “C” were being handed out in droves during seating. I grabbed two C’s and came to terms with the loss of my journalistic integrity as I...
This is a good cover because it looks nice and made me want to read the book. It's also a bad cover because it does not reflect the content contained under it. Good marketing can be a bad...
Mark Stack: I want to start by saying that I was reading this book again recently for what was perhaps the first time since I was 15 or 16. I was reading this book, really vibing on it, up until I reached a...
I didn't know who Jake Smith was a month ago. Then I clicked a link that took me to a Kickstarter page and now I know who Jake is and a bit more. Like a lot of us, he got into comics when he discovered his...
Mark: The question at the heart of this comic, Power Man & Iron Fist #1, is “are the Heroes for Hire back together?” While that’s left up in the air, there’s no doubt that the force of Mark...
Midnighter isn’t the first gay superhero and this isn’t his first solo title but that doesn’t mean he and this book aren’t important. As the first gay male character to headline a solo series at one of...
It takes a lot to be considered the Worst X-Man Ever. There's Gambit to contend with with his stupid long hair, his stupid jawline, his stupid mysterious eyes, and his stupid, stupid abdominal muscles… And...
What makes a mediocre comic more offensive than a bad comic? Effort. It is better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Incompetence is generally more endearing than indifference,...
Every Wednesday we'll be running a piece on a volume of Sandman. You can find Jason Sack's introduction to the series here. They tell college kids to read this stuff? No, really, there are people out there...