“…this essay is about why so many academics donât seem to realize comics have pictures. Itâs also about the consequences of this ignorance, which may or may not be willful but is always, nonetheless, harmful.”
Ed. Note: This review contains spoilers for The Power Fantasy #1. If you’d like to read a spoiler-free version of this review, check it out here. âSuperpowered.â You have certain preconceptions. Theyâre incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, âany individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the USA.â There are six…
Ed. Note: This is a special spoiler-free advance review of The Power Fantasy #1. Check back next Wednesday for the full review, with spoilers. âSuperpowered.â You have certain preconceptions. Theyâre incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, âany individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the USA.â There are…
Trek Talks returns with a fistful of Trek comics! Star Trek #21-22, written by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing with art by Megan Levens, colors by Lee Loughridge and letters by Clayton Cowles. Star Trek: Defiant #16, written by Christopher Cantwell, with art by Ăngel Unzueta, colors by Marissa Louise and letters by Clayton Cowles….
Union, New Jersey, the town where I grew up, was a victim of the comic shop implosion of the 1990s. By the time I left town for college in 1998, a couple of the stores where I had bought books over the years had closed. I had no idea whether there were any stores near…
Cindy Moon hits the dreamy high seas in Silk #3, written by Emily Kim, drawn by IG Guara, colored by Ian Herring and lettered by Ariana Maher. Even though Cindy Moon being stuck in a loop of dreams sucks, I like how writer Emily Kim allows Cindy takes a moment to enjoy the fact that…
The Midnight SunsâŚAre Doomed! The new team of Midnight Suns â Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider, And Nico Minoru â face their first brutal test when DOCTOR DOOM lays siege to Strange Academy! What is Doom after?! And an even bigger threat awaits IF they survive â a threat tied to the Sorcerer Supreme and…
In which there is no longer life on Mars, the Eternals learn the wrong lesson from Alan Mooreâs Glycon worship, and the Avengers prepare to buy a liquor store to deal with this shitshow. A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 is written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Valerio Schiti, colored by Marte Gracia, and lettered by Clayton…
Stylish but frazzled, overworked yet cheerful, our hero Gwen Stacy from Earth-65 (Spider-Gwen) must travel the timeline and the multiverse to find five alternate Gwens before the apocalyptic baddie Finale can invade, or erase, or rewrite, or something, Earth-65âs New York! What will she find when she dares to visitâŚ. the late 1980s? Spider-Gwen: Gwen-Verse…
Christi and Chris conclude their read of Darwyn Cookeâs love letter to the Silver Age, DCâs The New Frontier. Support The Chrises Patreon Kofii Contact The Chrises Twitter: @ChrisesPod Facebook: @ChrisesPod chrisesoninfiniteearths@gmail.com Music Credits “Evening Melodrama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ âGet Awayâ by Scott Holmes is licensed…
These past few months, for the average person, itâs been hard to look at anything long-term. There are too many questions. When will COVID-19 stop being a controlling factor in our daily lives? What happens with and after the election? Was 22 chapters too much Sword Content? Even within the smaller world of the comics…
After her victory over death and the Cotati, Jennifer Walters ruminates over her deaths and resurrections, leading back to her experiences Down Below in this issue by Al Ewing, Jon Davis-Hunt, Marcio Menyz, and VCâs Cory Petit. Cori McCreery: Taking a slight detour this week with The Immortal She-Hulk one-shot, which I know Iâve been…