Marauders, Cable, Savage Avengers, Gerry Duggan has a ton on his plate at the moment. But he was nice enough to sit down and answer some questions from us about his latest escapades at Marvel. Xavier Files: Kate Pryde and her struggles with her identity have been at the forefront of this run. What made…
Tristan Palmgren is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy writer of the upcoming Domino: Strays, coming out on October 6th, 2020. Their debut novel Quietus, a genre-warping blend of historical fiction and space opera set during the Black Death, was published by Angry Robot Books March, 2018. The sequel, Terminus, was released in November, 2018. Andrea Ayers of Xavier Files…
Up-and-coming indie comics creators and start-up publishers need to answer a lot of questions. How much money do I need to publish my comic? How can I work with comic shops to market the comics? How do I select a printer? Entertainment contracts attorney Gamal Hennessy seeks to answer those questions in The Business of Independent Comic…
Chances are, if you make comics, at some point youâll be out here crowdfunding a book through Kickstarter. But just like every comic may be some readerâs first, creators, too, need to start somewhere when it comes to promoting their first indie or self-published comic. After covering Kickstarters and similar projects on his own site,…
Jimmie Robinson loves Hello Kitty and says he is an âold Black dude who looks like a high school janitor.â Self-deprecating and honest about his demons, thereâs nothing about the writer and artist on the surface that telegraphs the weirdness, the darkness, the madness that has enabled him to create and subsequently resurrect the Bomb…
Bryan Edward Hill and Gleb Melnikov revitalized and reimagined Angel for a new age in Angel & Spike. This September, Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman are continuing that reimagination, starting Sept. 23 in Angel & Spike #14, and hoping to create stories in the BOOM!-fyverse that both capture the magic of the original series and critically reevaluate the source material….
Five years ago, Batman made a startling discovery in the pages of Justice League #50: There are three Jokers. Teased since then, this week readers finally begin to get an answer to the mystery, and heâs taking Batgirl and Red Hood along for the ride. Does this really pay off that much lead time and…
As far as comic storytelling formats go, one rapidly gaining popularity over the past year or so is the season-based format. It is essentially when a story is divided into 6- to 12-issue, self-contained arcs. It also allows for special or one-shot issues in between. Writer David Booher and Artist Drew Zucker released Canto last…
Bryan Edward Hill and Gleb Melnikov revitalized and reimagined Angel for a new age in Angel & Spike. This September, Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman are continuing that reimagination, starting Sept. 23 in Angel & Spike #14, and hoping to create stories in the BOOM!-fyverse that both capture the magic of the original series and…
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…
Eliot Rahal is not a saint. Heâs not a hero. Heâs just a guy â albeit one who can write some great comics â who lives 15 minutes away from the Minneapolis Police Departmentâs Third Precinct, the den of corruption and indifference that became the epicenter of protests after George Floydâs death at the hands…
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…
MISSED PART I OF OUR INTERVIEW? READ IT HERE! Black Stars Above is an existential, cosmic and survival horror comic written by Lonnie Nadler, drawn by Jenna Cha, colored by Brad Simpson and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. It follows Eulalie, a MĂ©tiswoman living in 1887 Canada, who flees the trap her family has set for her…
âI cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of menâs thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.â Robert Chambers, The King In Yellow âWhen you are here and…
As I write this, itâs June 30, the final day of LGBTQ Pride Month (and the eve of Wrath Month). And by a nice coincidence, itâs time for another Kickstarter spotlight. âGlitter Vipers,â from writer Joe Glass (âThe Prideâ), artist Kate Fleming, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, letterer Lucas Gattoni, editor Ted Brandt (âCrowdedâ) and cover artist…