Author Jed W. Keith

In the grand scheme of things, I’m still fairly young. I’m not the 20-something bright-eyed and bushy-tailed little shit I was just a decade ago, but I have enough vim and vigor to want to go out and choke...

Readers of superhero comic books have become very savvy in terms of storytelling. More and more, it’s becoming difficult to surprise them because of the Illusion of Change. First and foremost, comic books...

Writer Brian Wood knows social studies. With his Eagle Award-nominated comic book series Outlanders and even DMZ, set in the near future, Mr. Wood knows how to weave history and social commentary into his...

Community is a complicated series to defend. When folks, especially folks who don’t particularly care for the series, ask me why I enjoy the show, I usually go on a long and meandering spiel about how it’s...

As I discussed last week, when it comes to a character like Superman, it’s very difficult to reinvent the wheel and make him fresh for modern audiences. The fact of the matter is that, aside from the...

Back in the early days of the funny book, comic book genres were many and sweeping: In addition to superhero fare, horror comics, sci-fi series, westerns, and romance comics filled the newsstands, giving...

Review: Uncanny X-Men #32 "Uncanny X-Men #32 provides a hint of a payoff of Cyclops stories that have been rolling on since his fall from grace in Avengers vs. X-Men. If the endgame Bendis has planned for...

Of all the characters in comics, I think it’s fair to say that Superman can be the most problematic, as both a reader and a writer. Seems like an odd thing to say about a character that’s been in the...

Danny Pudi has been playing movie aficionado and sometimes-brutally honest aspiring filmmaker Abed Nadir for five seasons on Community. As the sixth season of the beloved series rolls on over at Yahoo!...

Review: Jem and the Holograms #1 "While many readers might pick up Jem and the Holograms #1 out of a sense of nostalgia, the book is sincerely a fun-as-Hell tale that will appeal to even the casual fan. If...