Comic Book G-Forces

I first read Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan & George Pérez when I was 5 years old; my parents got it for me for my birthday, no doubt hornswaggled into thinking it...

Any two-bit pop culture historian will tell you that The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons pushed superhero comics into previously unseen realms of darkness and...

Since he first started uploading his short, garish, hideously funny “Truth Zone” comics to Tumblr (the series that would establish the world of Megg, Mogg and Owl that we see today), Simon Hanselmann’s...

Cover by Bruce Timm When people describe a modern work of media as being “noirish,” most of the time what they’re actually thinking of is neo-noir—the tremulous, bloodstained worlds of films like...

I’ll be real with you: I didn’t have the highest expectations for Fatale. I think of Ed Brubaker as an okay writer at best, and I largely believe the “Image Revolution” has been overhyped claptrap that...

Welcome to Comic Book G-Forces, a bi-weekly column that serves as a hybrid of new and republished criticism from comic book writer Christopher M. Jones. Readers should expect a forcefulness and interrogation...