GalaxyCon Richmond: Celebrating Fandom!
GalaxyCon Richmond was three days good vibes and good times for all nerd-kind!
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Heroes Reborn Pt 4: Fantastic Four
Jim Lee and Brandon Choi’s Heroes Reborn Fantastic Four is one of the most romantic, dashing, adventurous retellings of the classic Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run.
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Heroes Reborn Pt 3: The Avengers
Walt Simonson took over Avengers from Jim Valentino, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, and Chap Yaep, and they gave us an epic of time travel, alternate dimensions, homunculi, possession, and lies.
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COMMENTARY: Politics in Comics, or a Pantheon of Capes
There seems to be a spreading fear that Social Justice Warriors (SJW) sit in comics planning meetings, plotting to drop poison into the water supply and bring ruin to Gotham City, like some mad collective of anarchist villains.
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Beauty And The Beast (1987): Once Upon A Time Is Now
1987’s TV series Beauty And The Beast teaches us that love, in it’s deepest, purest sense, exists. And that Once Upon A Time is Now!
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For the Love of Love: The Revealing Nature of Superhero Romance
Superheroes allow us to see what we care about most in the world. They help us come to terms with the human experience and the results are in: the human experience is love.
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Heroes Reborn Pt. 2: Iron Man
Heroes Reborn Iron Man, launched by Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Scott Lobdell, is a ground-up 1990s reimagining that ran from 1996-97.
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Heroes Reborn Pt. 1: Did We Need This?
Heroes Reborn was an imprint helmed by Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, reinventing Marvel superheroes like Captain America and the Fantastic Four for the 1990s. Did they need reinventing?
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The New Yorker Cartoon Takeover
December 2019, The New Yorker revises its all-comics issue for a new era, as the Cartoon Takeover!
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Garth Ennis and Men’s Blind Support of Men
A Train Called Love, Garth Ennis, Mark Dos Santos, a scene of women with garbage boyfriends, the sexist response from “comics fans.”
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A Joye Hummel Wonder Woman
Sensation Comics with fantastic Wildcat and Little Boy Blue comics and a Wonder Woman by Joye Hummel, the first woman to write the character.
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Paul Cornell, Demon Knights, Trans Treatment
Paul Cornell turned trans people not passing into a joke every issue of Demon Knights. We, readers, have to deal with that without unintentional fallout, without unintended insult. Wee! us.
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