Kat Howard on Wizardry & Responsibility in BOOKS OF MAGIC
DC Comics/Vertigo Comics’ Tim Hunter is said to be destined to be the greatest user of magic of this age, for good or for ill. However, as we’ve...
Tim Seeley on Finding Belonging in SHATTERSTAR
The sword-wielding alien character known as Shatterstar has been a part of Marvel Comics’ X-Men universe for almost 30 history, first appearing in...
C.W. Cooke on Wrestling, Werewolves, & Wonder in His L.U.C.H.A. Kickstarter
C.W. Cooke is a font of comic book stories. From his contributions to the anthology Always Punch Nazis to his unique slant on superheroics in his...
Rob Fee on Bringing the Fright in the AVENGERS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
With Halloween just around the corner, lovers of the ghoulish and supernatural adore exploring the spooky and the haunting across all corners of...
Roger Langridge & Ryan Ferrier on the Whimsy & Life Lessons of CRIMINY
A graphic novel with nods to Max Fleischer cartoons of yesteryear paired with undertones of the current refugee crisis across the globe may not, on...
Bobby’s “Being Out Story”: Sina Grace on the New ICEMAN Miniseries
In his phenomenal run on his recently concluded Marvel Comics series Iceman, writer Sina Grace examined the growth of Bobby Drake, the titular mutant...
Ulises Farina on Nerd Culture, Fame, & Parody in His New GAMMA Miniseries
Comic writer and artist Ulises Farinas’ hilarious and often dark parody that aims shots at the conventions of Saturday morning cartoons of decades...
Tom Peyer & Jamal Igle on Parallel Worlds & Lives in THE WRONG EARTH
Speculative fiction and science fiction have often questioned the idea of the existence of parallel Earths and parallel universes, operating in their...
Si Spurrier & Bilquis Evely on Revisiting THE DREAMING
While last month’s The Sandman Universe one-shot from DC Comics/Vertigo Comics reintroduced the menagerie of characters from writer Neil Gaiman’s...
Eric M. Esquivel on Horror & Identity in BORDER TOWN
Monsters lurk everywhere—not just the supernatural monsters of myth and legend and folklore, but the human monsters that let hate and ignorance mar...