Comic Books

With the feature film Deadpool starring Ryan Reynolds hitting theaters this Friday, interest in the Marvel Comics Merc with a Mouth is reaching a fever pitch. Since his inception 25 years ago, a slew of...

Dreaming Eagles #1 is off to a rough start. Ennis, Coleby, and Kalisz too often seem to be working against each other, and that’s a shame, because the story of the Tuskegee Airmen is one that deserves to...

There are several different approaches someone can take to choosing a direction for their webcomic. In many cases, the creators are doing something that readers can't find elsewhere. Often, they're looking...

Comic books, particularly mainstream titles, have perennially had issues with diversity in their four-colored pages, from gender representation, characters of non-heteronormative sexuality, and, quite notably,...

This past weekend, the Angoulême International Comics Festival, featuring creators from across the globe, took place in France. There's no better place for such a gathering of artists to convene than in the...

Some of the best science fiction stories are those that have been packed with commentary on the real life and make the readers reflect on the world about us. Paknadel & Trakhanov's Turncoat, a new comic...

Review: Jem and the Holograms#11 "Jem and the Holograms #11 demonstrates once again why the series month-in and month-out is one of the most enjoyable and most pertinent books on the racks. Brimming with...

I've talked a few times here about formatting webcomics, and how they frequently borrow from their predecessors: newspaper strips and comic books. But not every webcomic does that, of course.  In Reinventing...

It's become increasingly clear over the past five years or so that Marvel has a Cyclops problem. Stretching back as far as writer Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men stint back in the early 2000s, there...

This Wednesday, Vertigo SFX #4, the final installment of Vertigo Comics' latest anthology series, hits newsstands, featuring short stories all with the running inspiration of gunfire, explosions, and the...