What’s The Top-Selling Superhero? Did You Say Dog Man?
Right now he’s overshadowing Batman, Spider-Man, and anything that Animal Man has been in. You haven’t seen a movie about him, nor seen him on […]
Comics
Comic-Con 2018: Captain Action Attacks Mars!
When I was a kid, the most magical of figures wasn’t one who could just change adventurous outfits. It was the one who could change […]
BOOM! Previews The Sons Of El Topo
This right here. I recently have had a lot of conversations about how comics have become so much more than what people think they remember. […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast #517: Conversations at Comic-Con 2018
Comic-Con interviews, spotlighting Max Allan Collins (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer) and Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth (Instant), then Comic-Con news and What’s in the Bag?
Gail Simone’s Tribute To Bongo Comics
One of the best writers around, Gail Simone started as one of us, a comics fan turned internet writer. And then Bongo Comics accepted a […]
Junior Jr.’s Guns A’Blazin’ Music Video
You know a comic book has struck a chord when a rock band puts together a song AND a music video for it. After running […]
Comic-Con 2018: Guns A’Blazin’!
It’s odd to say this about a comic that comes out once a year, but one thing that stands out about Guns A’Blazin’ #6 is its […]
Even Weirdworld Needs Champions
All day long, Marvel had been sending out emails with the header “Change the World?” As it turns out, they meant Weirdworld, an other-dimensional planet […]
Comic-Con 2018: The DC Universe Experience
Whether under the streets of Gotham City or deep in the swamps of Louisiana, the DC Universe contains a lot of darkness. There’s a lot […]
Comic-Con 2018: Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein Gets An Artist’s Edition
When Bernie Wrightson passed away last year, we lamented on the podcast that his illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had gone out of print. Sure, […]
Comic-Con 2018: Tales From Vader’s Castle
Since Darth Vader acts as the boogie man to real children anyway, why not show how he’s used in storytelling in a galaxy far, far […]
Comic-Con 2018: George Takei Tells His Story In Comics
George Takei has long served his community, spending time in politics in the 1980s, and then leveraging a late-in-life fame to start talking about injustice […]
Comic-Con 2018: ComiXology Originals
Where are new comics readers going to come from? That’s the question that David Steinberger hoped to answer when he launched ComiXology 10 years ago, […]
Comic-Con 2018: Jessica Jones Kicks Off Marvel Digital Originals
Right here. This may not be THE pivotal moment, but it does mark a change in comics distribution on the level of Marvel turning three […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast #516: The Return of MEGO!
It’s a Comic-Con preview episode with Marty Abrams, the president of MEGO, relaunching in San Diego this week! Then who was Flesh Gordon, what’s in the bag, and much more!
Comic-Con 2018: The Gaslamp Gets In The Spirit(s)
Enjoy this Fanboy Planet guide to restaurants offering Comic-Con-inspired menu items…
Comic-Con 2018: Dark Horse Breaks The Internet
Sure, it should be “wrecks the internet,” but “breaks” scans better. And Dark Horse is about to prove that they can actually preserve Disney’s comics […]
Comic-Con 2018: IDW Publishing Marvel Kids’ Comics
This one’s going to have the convention floor buzzing, because it does and doesn’t make sense. Currently the comic book company with the highest brand […]
Comic-Con 2018: The Name’s Pak. Greg Pak.
Dynamite has taken the absolutely right approach with the James Bond license, and it’s not a license to kill. It’s a license to let some […]