FANCAST FRIDAY: Keeping the World Strange with PLANETARY
With the news of Warren Ellis’ continued work with the Wildstorm Universe of characters, why not fantasize a bit about a “Planetary” film?
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It Changes on Reread: Ian Edginton and X-Force
Ian Edginton, Whilce Portacio, Ariel Olivetti, Warren Ellis, Jorge Lucas, and Gerry Alanguilan turned X-Force into a farcical, loud, fashion-forward spyfy smash-up for fourteen months, and nobody was ready for it.
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Dis-Ease of Language: 20 Years of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Tempest, the final volume of Kevin O’Neill and Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a six-issue illustration of how language infects and affects us, a strange mix of how fiction and telling can harm us and indulgence in “harmful” representation as harmless fun.
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FAN CAST FRIDAY: Alpha Flight Has Arrived!
“No Tom Hardys were injured in the making of this list.”
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Catwoman is Not Catwoman in Under the Moon
Lauren Myracle, Jeremy Lawson, Isaac Goodhart, and Deron Bennett present a tale of an abused teenager making sense of the world by becoming a thief. A surprising look at misogyny, immaturity, homelessness, class and gender imbalances, written and drawn for a YA audience, but with value and excitement for all.
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Be Unstoppable, with Nadia van Dyne
Jeremy Whitley, Gurihiru, Elsa Charretier, and Megan Wilson’s The Unstoppable Wasp is a moving, caring, fun, sad, adventurous comic about superheroes, mental health, family, friendship, love, tacos stress, wrestling, trauma, and girls doing awesome science.
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What We Know about ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
Join us for a special look at the upcoming film “Spider-Man: Far From Home” written by Guest Contributor Maria Heartz. AVENGERS: ENDGAME SPOILERS AHEAD.
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Oldguy and Poem-Comics
Oldguy! The Mirror of Love! Nancy! Late Bloomer! Street Poet Ray! The merger of poetry and comics, with examples from the work of Tim Mayer, William Trowbridge, Alan Moore, Maré Odomo, José Villarrubia, Junko Hosizawa, and Michael Redmond.
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The Use and Abuse of Mary Sue
Exploring the origins, re-codification, and uses of the term, Mary Sue, from Star Trek to Gargoyles, Captain Marvel to Batman to Squirrel Girl and Sally Floyd.
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Eumenides! Euripedes! Elektra!
Elektra was brought back at the behest of a toy company. Mike Deodato and Peter Milligan are beloved comics talent, and Christie Scheele has always been under-appreciated as a great colorist and fantastic painter. It was 1997 and Marvel decided to launch its first Elektra ongoing series, its first solo series and some of the first work, at all, featuring the character without creator, Frank Miller, in tow.
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Honesty
Comics are wonderfully suited to showing lies, misunderstandings, and individually held truths. A look at personal lies, systemic obfuscation, and good will conflation in Cheat, Female Furies, Mek and more, with attention to Gene Ha, Cecil Castellucci, Christine Norrie, Adriana Melo, Warren Ellis, Felicia Day, Bruce Willis, et al.
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OPINION: Are We Ready For a Live Action World of Batman Beyond?
For its time, Batman Beyond was a bit of a radical concept. It was one of the first times in the history of the Batman universe that things were upended in a profound departure from what had come before. It saw the man himself, Bruce Wayne, retire from being the Caped Crusader after he almost had to use a gun to save someone. When Wayne decided he would never again put on the cape and cowl, it filled much of the audience with dread. How would this new series approach a Bruce Wayne-less Batman? The question would be answered by 16-year-old Terry McGinnis, who would lose his father just as Wayne lost both of his parents. This would lead him down the path to becoming Batman.
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