It’s 2002. The WorldCom scandal exposes accounting fraud, Kelly Clarkson wins American Idol, and Halle Berry captures a Best Actress Oscar. People are listening to “Hot in Herre,” watching Spider-Man, and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreX-Men fan Michael Foulk returned to the franchise with 2019’s House of X/Powers of X reboot, and now they are writing two columns that are one (heh) with Heroes of X and History of X, starting today…
Read MoreAvengers - Skree/Krull War helped lay the groundwork for grand scale storytelling at Marvel and countless ramifications afterwards…it is senior staff writer d. emerson eddy’s classic comic of the week.
Read MoreIt’s 1999. Two teenagers commit a tragic school shooting at Columbine, Napster is launched, Spongebob Squarepants debuts, and the world prepares for Y2K bug. People are listening to “Smooth,” watching The Matrix and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreMarvel 1985 from Millar, Edwards, and Workman is a bit of an oddity within Marvel, though it still stands as an interesting viewing of 1985 and the power of imagination.
Read MoreIt’s 1995. Oklahoma City is bombed, Windows 95 is released, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. People are listening to “Gangsta’s Paradise,” watching Clueless and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreWolverine: The Long Night by Percy, Takara, Milla, and Caramagna presents an impeccably paced tale with an incredibly captivating mystery. It features a Wolverine largely unfettered by his X-Men or Avengers careers…
Read MoreIt’s 1989. The Game Boy is released, Tiananmen Square protests lead to violence, a ‘fatwa’ is ordered against Salman Rushdie, and the Berlin Wall falls. People are listening to “Fight the Power,” watching Batman and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreIt’s 1974. Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, Arthur Fry invents the Post-it Note, and Nixon resigns after Watergate. People are listening to “Waterloo,” watching Blazing Saddles, and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreIt’s 1973. The Paris Peace Accords end US involvement in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion, and the Sydney Opera House is opened. People are listening to “Let’s Get it On,” watching The Exorcist, and reading Daredevil.
Read MoreAs Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run at Marvel Comics comes to a close, Larry Jorash looks back on the writer’s time guiding Black Panther and Captain America in the context of his non-fiction and the recurring metaphor of The Dream.
Read MoreStar Slammers might be the one work of Walt Simonson's that flew under your radar, but it's an excellent space opera that is well worth your time to check out.
Read MoreThe Classic Comic of the Week (as chosen by senior staff writer d. emerson eddy) is Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula, a fun beat-em-up brawl story, with monsters and vampires, exactly as it sounds.
Read MoreWelcome to The Man Without Fear, By The Year, a granular approach to examining Marvel Comics’ Daredevil, while also looking at its role in the evolving nature of mainstream comics storytelling.
Read MoreAnn Nocenti and JRJR take a unique approach to Daredevil in Daredevil #253, a Christmas issue that sets itself up as a retelling of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Kingpin as Scrooge and a Santa-like Daredevil spreading Christmas cheer.
Read MoreDead of Night featuring Man-Thing #1 is an entertaining mix of Marvel horror with late night horror anthology schlock that tells a solid horror story that's still not afraid to poke fun at itself.
Read MoreBy d. emerson eddy — I've mentioned before my love of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, spotlighting a number of different works falling into those genres, but I've neglected to focus on another genre that I love that tends to be overlooked. In honour of the release of Pulp, I wanted to start on some of my favourite westerns and stories that incorporate western conventions to show something new. I tend towards the weird westerns, but there's something existentially fulfilling about the barren expanse, where hard, driven individuals have to eke out an existence on the frontier against regular threat of lawlessness. Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears by Garth Ennis, Clayton Crain, and Joe Caramagna straddles that divide between straight-up western and supernatural thriller built on a superhero legacy.
Read MoreBy Wesley Messer — Everyone has media blindspots — TV we haven’t watched, movies we haven’t seen, and, for readers of this site (myself included), comics we haven’t read. In fact, there are many classic comics that I haven’t read, sometimes not even a single issue. That’s where this new series comes in — it’s called Blindspots, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: me making an effort to fill in my classic comics blindspots.
Read MoreBy Zach Rabiroff — Benjamin Percy and Joshua Cassara’s X-Force may or may not be the valedictorian of the Dawn of X line, but it’s certainly the most improved student. From its humble beginnings as a somewhat perfunctory entry in the new era of X-Men comics — a healthy, harmless dose of gratuitous violence for those put off by the heady sci-fi meanderings of Jonathan Hickman’s work — it has grown into one of the strongest and most interesting ensemble books coming out of Marvel. Against the odds, a book that seemed to be about blood and guts turns out to be full of heart.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — The new comics market is (very slowly) starting to stabilize, and as such, it’s becoming easier to get a handle on what comics are coming out when from which publishers. That’s why this month, we’ve been able to add some new publishers to our July 2020 Comics Solicitations piece, which is an effort to create one centralized place to reference what is coming out and when (what a novel idea!).
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