The Kuberts are the first family of comics. Joe Kubert produced comics from 1943, the heart of the Golden Age, until right before his death in 2012. His sons, Andy and Adam, have been two of comicsā best regarded artists for over 20 years. His granddaughter Katie Kubert has edited for both Marvel and DC….
The mailbag? Yeah, itās full as hell. And Now, Your Questions Tweet me (@willnevin) or just scream at me with some stupid thing you want answered. If you donāt ask me questions, Iāll find you and beg you for them. Donāt make me beg. @BigDadEnergy_: What lessons from pushing the Inhumans can Marvel apply to…
In a simpler time, where indoors is open, handshakes and hugs are common, and smiles no longer need to be hidden, I am sitting at a bar with a friend. We laugh, for though we were strangers in our youth, we share so many common experiences because we are from the same small city. So…
People like to say the X-Men have the most complicated backstory and continuity in comics. And that might be true. For Marvel Comics. But at least a tie for messiest history would have to be DCās Legion of Super-Heroes, the teen team from the future. And thatās not even factoring in that weāre on our…
If youāre going to do a thing ā any stupid thing at all ā it should be done right. The Splash I donāt know who runs social media for IMDb (which, by the way, is one more part of the Amazon empire if you didnāt know), but they should be fired ā preferably into the…
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 itās time to…
In 2012, 10 years after the first Free Comic Book Day, Diamond Comic Distributors rolled out Halloween ComicFest, a similar promotion in which comic shops gave out free (to customers) books on the last Saturday in November. While not having quite the same cache as FCBD, it capitalized on a holiday when kids and fans…
In the summer of 2018, times were strange but good. Since my youngest had been born only that spring, he was still pretty attached to my wife, Christi, which led to a new division of labor, in which I got our eldest son to bed while Christi went to bed early with the baby. Now…
Taco Bell. Just the name brings up images of garbage food you get at a drive-thru at 2AM and savor every bite of. Not every menu item is good. Iād even say most of them are bad. But some of them are great. Just like characters in the X-Men franchise! Today I bring to you…
There was once a dark age. A time when there was no internet. A time when the knowledge of comic book charactersā 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 āDark Nights:…
Nothing is so important that we must sacrifice decency or respect for others. Last Time on āWhy, Willā Imagine this conversation 50 years from now: āPep Pep, was there *really* a coronavirus pandemic? And more than 150,000 people died? And the United States kinda did nothing?ā āThatās all true, kiddo. It was a nightmare. Daily!ā…
The following contains spoilers for last week’s Marauders #11 For a woman who can walk on air, Kate Pryde has always had to carry a heavy weight. Since her introduction in 1980, Kate has been, in addition to her day job as a member of one x-team or another, an authorial stand-in for creators from…
This article has gone through a few changes. Originally it was a profile praising Marvel’s Black Cat ongoing series and highlighting it’s unlikely continued success both with sales and cultivating a loyal following. It explored how a low-profile creative team managed to weather the comics market’s highs and lows better than dozens of other series…
Next Saturday, Aug. 22, is DC FanDome, described in a press release as a ā24-hour, immersive virtual fan experience which brings the universe of DC to life and features the stars, filmmakers and creators behind its biggest films, TV series, games and comics.āĀ (Notice how comics are last.) Itās like many of the virtual cons…
When someone says āRobert Kirkman,ā what title springs to mind? For most people outside comic fandom, and many in, itās likely his cross-media hit, āThe Walking Dead.ā For many other comic fans, it might be his superhero title, āInvincible.ā There might even be some people who jump to āOutcast,ā his demonic possession drama that was…