Free Comic Book Day is a day when comic shops across America (and the world) give away special edition comics from a variety of publishers. It falls on the first Saturday of May, and serves as both a promotional opportunity…
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Pop Music Comics: Hopeless Savages
Music is an integral part of Hopeless Savages, but it’s not the focus. This comic is about a cast of characters, a family of brilliant and insane individuals, and their trials and tribulations. Their world so steeped in musical culture…
Graphic Novel Review: Cow Boy (Archaia Entertainment)
Cow Boy is a new graphic novel from Archaia, and it’s a masterful work of poignance, varmint wrangling, and hard-bitten, spur-jangling protagonists. The title character is Boyd Linney, a ten year-old child with a bandanna, a hat, and a horse. …
“Comics And Pop Music” panel at C2E2 2012.
This weekend, April 13-15, McCormick Place in Chicago will play host to C2E2 (the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo) and we will be there on Friday, April 13 at 6:30pm, in room N426b, to present and moderate a panel that ties into our “pop music…
Pop Music Comics: Twenty-Seven, Second Set
The second story arc of 27 picks up a few months after the close of the first series. The fallen rock star William Garland is learning to live with the mysterious device that turned his life upside-down, and deal with…
Comic Review: Alpha Girl #2 (Image Comics, 2012)
The second installment of this new Image series continues in the same maniacal spirit as issue #1, as authors Jean-Paul Bonjour and Jeff Roenning keep the story moving at a furious pace. This issue is largely spent establishing the scenario…
Image Comics In Review: The Manhattan Projects, The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode, Xenoholics, Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker
Following up on last week’s reviews, here’s another batch of Image comics you should be reading. These ones are all geared toward older audiences (lots of mature themes, not much family-friendly material), so they’re not really suitable for puritanical killjoys…
Pop Music Comics: Archie Meets KISS
KISS has a long history in comic books, having appeared in a number of publications from Marvel (detailed here and here) and starring in series from Image Comics and Platinum Studios. The band’s appearance lends itself well to the comic…
Tiny Titans: 50 Issues of Awesomeness
Anyone who’s ever been to a playground knows that preschool kids love superheroes. Look in a major toy store, clothing store, or Halloween costume catalog and you’ll see that 3 year old boys all want to be Spiderman, Superman, Batman……
Image Comics In Review: Peter Panzerfaust, No Place Like Home, Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors, Alpha Girl, Li’l Depressed Boy, Last Of The Greats
Image Comics is on a serious winning streak right now, with a catalog that boasts a wild variety of titles, each strange and unique and totally different that all the others. You see, Image operates as a forum for creator-owned…