Interview: Artist Andy Kubert Strikes Again in Dark Knight III - Artiste...
Andy Kubert started out at the bottom of his class at his father’s school, but his legions of fans would never believe that. From X-Men to Batman, Andy’s carved out his place in the comics hall of...
View ArticleLet’s Speculate Wildly About Our Superheroes’ Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes, Bub!
Thanksgiving is all about gratefulness, cooperation, and stuffing your maw with delicious, delicious foods. In the spirit of teamwork and good eats, then, let’s speculate together about what foods our...
View ArticleGet Into Some New Comics Today With ComiXology’s Huge Cyber Monday Sale
Picking a jumping-on point for comics can be confusing enough, and then there’s the task of actually buying those books. Today, ComiXology is here to help you with the second part of that equation...
View ArticleWTF Comics Club Reads Maus
The WTF Comics Club is a monthly reading group for Women, Trans, and Femme-identified fans in Minneapolis. In its second year, the club is taking a look at some of the major comic book “must reads”...
View ArticleWhy It’s Time to Add Paper Girls to Your Pull List
Imagine you took a group of girls with the camaraderie of the Lumberjanes, but you handed them a carton of cigarettes, a gun, and sprinkled in a good amount of teenage edge and profanity. OK, so that...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze’s Black Panther Series Gets a Debut Date
Mark your calendars: The upcoming Black Panther comic book series written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze finally has a release date. Admittedly, it’s the somewhat vague “April...
View ArticleMarvel to Celebrate Women’s History Month With Variant Covers
Women’s History Month is fast approaching (March 2016!), and Marvel plans to celebrate it with some pretty sweet variant covers for their comics. Titled the Women of Power Variants, they’ve reached...
View ArticleWhy Lumberjanes Is the Comic You Should Be Reading Right Now
I love movies like The Goonies and Stand by Me as much as the next person, but where the ladies at? I don’t know about you, but I always craved that classic coming-of-age, outdoors, in-nature...
View ArticlePull Wisely Classic: Bitch Planet #6, Paper Girls #4, Giant Days #10 and More!
(image via Image) What’s up, folks? It’s a brand new year, and as such, we’re featuring a brand-new-but-not-really-brand-new Pull Wisely! It’s the good old classic tried-and-true Pull Wisely formula....
View ArticleThe Mary Sue Exclusive: Kevin Wada’s Another Castle #2 Variant Cover Reveal
The Mary Sue is excited to reveal Kevin Wada’s gorgeous variant cover for Another Castle #2 from Oni Press! If you’re not familiar with the concept behind Andrew Wheeler and Paulina Ganucheau’s...
View ArticleReview: Marvel’s A-Force #1 2016 - Secret Wars is over and A-Force is back!
A-Force (via Marvel Comics) When A-Force, the all-women version of the Avengers, was announced, I was excited. The fact that it’s penned by G Willow Wilson made it even more exciting. When they...
View ArticleWTF Comics Club Reads: Superman: Red Son - In Communist Russia, Superman...
The WTF Comics Club is a monthly reading group for Women, Trans, and Femme-identified fans in Minneapolis. In its second year, the club is taking a look at some of the major comic book “must reads”...
View ArticleSupergirl and Waging the War Against Cynicism With Idealized Superheroes
The allegories weren’t exactly subtle in last week’s episode of Supergirl. “Strange Visitor from Another Planet,” an episode that was guaranteed to make us cry, dipped into the origin story of J’onn...
View ArticleImage Publisher Eric Stephenson Asks Comics Industry to Embrace Change Over...
In a speech given to the 10th Annual ComicsPRO Membership Meeting in Portland, Oregon, Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson spoke at length about the history of comics as well as the current state...
View ArticleThings We Saw Today: Make Your Own Deadpool Pizza
Thanks to YouTuber Rosanna Pansino, you can make your very own Deadpool-inspired pizza–and the best part is that it looks just like the Merc’s mask. Technically it’s not the same pizza Wade Wilson...
View ArticleLive and Let Live: In Defense of Not (Permanently) Killing Off TV Superheroes...
I recently fell down the rabbit hole of comics-based, superhero television adaptations. I blame it on Netflix; it’s difficult to avoid getting sucked into the Marvel universe when both of the first...
View ArticleWTF Comics Club Reads: Transmetropolitan - Spider does it for the lulz.
he WTF Comics Club is a monthly reading group for Women, Trans, and Femme-identified fans in Minneapolis. In its second year, the club is taking a look at some of the major comic book “must reads” and...
View ArticleWhy Other Superhero Comics Should Be Like Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel
When people talk about diversity in comics, what usually comes to mind is diverse characters or creators. Yet, diversity shouldn’t have “either-or” scenarios. Instead, it should be as broad as...
View ArticleFamily Drama as Old as Time: Holly Black Talks About Her New Lucifer Series
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series is widely considered to be among the best when it comes to comics. It’s one of the titles that helped redefine the comic genre and showed all the bizarre and beautiful...
View ArticleInternet Murder Revenge Fantasy: Comics Artists Illustrate Poetry About...
(Cover art by slimgitsoul) Today’s generation of youth isn’t the first to grow up online, but the Internet where older millennials and gen-Xers spent their formative years was a much different...
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