The original version of this piece appeared on my blog, The Matt Signal, on Aug. 23, 2013, shortly after news broke — and stink rose — that Ben Affleck would be playing Batman in a yet-to-be-named live action movie. Seven years later, we find ourselves in a similar situation, so I think itâs time to…
There was once a dark age. A time when there was no internet. A time when the knowledge of comic book charactersâ backgrounds could not be found in wikis, but in the memories of fans and in specially printed comics. Comics called handbooks or guidebooks. This week, DC released a guidebook to its âDark Nights:…
Comics have a long history of taking traditional tales and giving them new takes, whether itâs Stan Lee and Jack Kirby recasting the Norse gods as superheroic archetypes in âThe Mighty Thorâ or Alan Moore cramming an entire 19th-century lit classâ worth of characters into one story in âLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen.â Writer David Pepose…
Writer Jeremy Whitley joins the podcast to talk about his new Papercutz graphic novel, School for Extraterrestrial Girls, his upcoming Marvel Action: Chillers comics from IDW, the future of Princeless and the stuff he’s gotten away with in My Little Pony.
When someone says âRobert Kirkman,â what title springs to mind? For most people outside comic fandom, and many in, itâs likely his cross-media hit, âThe Walking Dead.â For many other comic fans, it might be his superhero title, âInvincible.â There might even be some people who jump to âOutcast,â his demonic possession drama that was…
Writer and comics journalist Zack Quaintance (Comics Bookcase, The Beat) returns to the show to talk about his first Kickstarter project, Next Door, transitioning from writing about comics to making them, and the never-ending quest to bag and board them all.
One of the beautiful things about Kickstarter as a platform for comics creation is that it allows voices that are marginalized in mainstream comics to be heard. The crime genre is one that has grown considerably in recent years, but, as with much of mainstream comics, it has remained mainly white. So itâs exciting to…
Jason Howard, creator of Image’s new series “Big Girls,” joins Dan and Matt to talk about gender roles, drawing crazy stuff with Robert Kirkman, the NBA bubble, schooling under COVID-19 and more.
Yee-haw! We do Westerns now, pardner! OK, enough of that. We’re breaking form from your regular (as of the past month) Indie Triple Play to bring you two reviews of comics of a similar bent, as Matthew Lazorwitz reviews Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ latest OGN, Pulp, and Will Nevin looks at the second issue…
High noon in a desert town. Two men face off, hands on the butts of their holstered revolvers. [Groteâs note: Heh heh, butts.] A blur of motion, a crack of gunfire, and one (or both) falls. This scene is a hallmark of the American Western, a genre that was popular in comics throughout the 1950s…
We talk with Tim Daniel about his role as designer for Vault Comics; his series “The Plot” with Michael Moreci, Joshua Hixson, et al; his horror influences; Star Wars; Indiana Jones and much more.
Dracula, as created by Bram Stoker, is one of the most written about and filmed literary characters. As with Sherlock Holmes, it feels like everyone has a Dracula story. Sometimes theyâre comedies (Mel Brooksâ âDracula: Dead and Loving Itâ), sometimes theyâre rooted in history (Elizabeth Kostovaâs novel âThe Historianâ) and sometimes theyâre⌠odd choices (âBlade:…
We catch up with our friends Justin and Penelope Daniels from Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in New Jersey to talk about shutting down for COVID-19, filming themselves for an Amazon documentary, nearly losing their comics and toy shop to a devastating electrical fire, getting nominated for a retail Eisner, again, and why longtime “G.I. Joe” writer Larry Hama is a Real American Hero.
Comics are a visual medium, a combination of written words and pictures. But movie adaptations have taught us that comic book stories, whether superhero, crime, biographical or otherwise, can be translated to other media. But even before there were superhero serials on the big screen, comic books were translated to another medium: radio plays, whether…
Artist Sanford Greene joins Dan and Matt to talk about his Eisner-nominated Image Comics series “Bitter Root,” looking for content during a pandemic, his sweet studio spinner rack and more.