Comic Books

With DC Comics’ Rebirth event in full-swing, the company’s stable of characters are each getting touched with a bit of magic for readers old and new to experience and be introduced or reintroduced to...

Next Wednesday, Bloodlines #4, written by J.T. Krul with Sean Parsons and V Ken Marion on art, hits newsstands, with more alien gestation than a xenomorph movie marathon. Check out these preview pages...

About a year ago, I wrote a piece about that somewhat nebulous area between webcomics and digital comics. Comic apps for mobile devices that weren't really webcomics but weren't really digital comics either. I...

Yesterday, we spoke with writer Michael Moreci about his new comic book series Indoctrination, hitting comic shops Wednesday from Z2 Comics. Today, Mr. Moreci’s collaborator artist Matt Battaglia was kind...

If the success of television series such a the first season of HBO's True Detective and films like director David Fincher's Seven and Zodiac are any indication, humans are fascinated with the occult and...

The comic book vigilante Lobster Johnson has always been a more-than-welcome mainstay of Dark Horse’s Hellboy universe of comics. With stories set in 1930s, writers continue to up the ante to give him more...

Comic book origin stories can be a hit-or-miss proposition and can completely impact whether a reader decides to invest themselves into a story moving forward. Even with a title like Angel Catbird--which,...

If you’re a child of the 1980s, chances are that you were a fan of or are at least familiar with Strawberry Shortcake, either from the TV cartoons or the various products associated with the cheerful kiddo...

Generally speaking this correspondent doesn’t get to write about mainstream superheroes. For all of the fighting the capes and tights crowd does (and all of their wars, both secret and civil), most of the...

Between my general interest, this column, and the Comics Alternative webcomics podcast I co-host, I'm always on the look-out for neat webcomics. When I first started getting into webcomics, I largely relied on...