Superhero stories are often at their best when they reflect the struggles people go through, but in a situation writ large with pathos and drama that we will never see in our day-to-day life. And since so much of our day-to-day life is surrounded by social media, why wouldnât a superhero have problems that involve…
Everyone should be forced to work in fast food. The public interactions, the bad hours, the coming home smelling like a sandwich. Thereâs nothing like it. The banal monotony of a Tuesday closing shift in the foot court Quiznos Subs of a dying mall where your only co-worker is a stuck-up 17-year-old who hates you…
Dan Grote ¡ WMQ&A Episode 140: David Pepose Has a New Dog AND New Comics Writer David Pepose returns to the show to talk about The O.Z., Scout’s Honor, making comics in 2020, his new dog and more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at ComicsXF.com, where…
If you listen to WMQ&A, you know that I am a cat person. My wife and I have a cat, Bess, who pretty much controls every aspect of our lives. But what I talk about less, because we currently donât have one around the house, is that we are also bunny people. And so when…
Dan Grote ¡ WMQ&A Episode 137: The Cult of Liana Kangas Liana Kangas returns to WMQ&A to talk about her burgers-crime-and-Satanism comic TRVE KVLT, her TKO short “Seeds of Eden,” drumming, her dogs, “The Mandalorian” and much more. As always, you can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and at xavierfiles.com, where…
Ed Brisson has done a lot of notable work for Marvel the past couple years, including a well-received run on âGhost Rider,â co-writing âX-Men: Disassembledâ with Kelly Thompson and Matthew Rosenberg, co-writing âNew Mutantsâ with Jonathan Hickman and a one-page story in an X-Men Christmas special that made Glob Herman everyoneâs favorite good globby boy. …
Some kids think of their parents as superheroes; usually thatâs a good thing. But when it turns out your dad has superpowers and ditches your family to become the one superhero in the world, well, the reality doesnât quite live up to the fantasy. âLike Father, Like Daughterâ â by writer Kat Calamia, artist Wayne…
The latest in our series of profiles of Kickstarters you should check out is âRDW,â a dark fantasy comic from creator Marco Rudy. You may know Rudyâs work from âThe Shieldâ at DC or âUncanny X-Menâ and âBucky Barnes: The Winter Soldierâ at Marvel. We sat down with Rudy to talk story, inspirations and his…
Marty is stuck at his dead-end job at Burger Lord and the last 15 years have passed him by. What happens when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from an insane cult full of violent lunatics, led by a monster in human form? Will his manager and best friend Bernice roll her eyes and fire…
Wonder Woman Earth One Vol. 3 DC on Monday announced a third a final volume of writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman: Earth One graphic novel trilogy, to debut in March of next year. The plot, per DC: Diana, now queen of the Amazons, must assemble the disparate Amazonian tribes for the…
Dan Grote ¡ WMQ&A Episode 125: Scott Snyder's eternal darkness BIG GUEST ALERT! Writer Scott Snyder (“Batman,” “Justice League,” “Undiscovered Country”) joins Dan and Matt to talk about his Kickstarter for a collector’s edition of the first issue of NOCTERRA, his upcoming Image series with Tony Daniel, his (many) plans for independent projects and a…
BOOM Studios on Tuesday launched a Kickstarter for the graphic novel collections of BRZRKR, an upcoming series about an immortal warrior seeking to end his life, a development project for actor Keanu Reeves, co-written by Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney, colored by Bill Crabtree and lettered by Clem Robbins. By Friday, it had made…
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,…
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…