Comics

The Isolation Stack: Captain Ginger

August 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

When Ahoy Comics launched, the book that caught my attention was The Wrong Earth. Because it was a good superhero book with the pedigree of two […]

Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode #581: Three on a Podcast

August 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nate Costa, prodigal fanboy, returns for this week’s discussion of a pulp revival, streaming surprises, Wicked Chicken, and our picks of the week!

Flashback Friday: The Lost Watchmen Spin-off

August 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Anybody remember the Saturday Morning Watchmen cartoon? If you don’t, that’s because it didn’t exist, but 11 years ago animator Harry Partridge unleashed this “lost […]

BOOM! Adapts Slaughterhouse-Five

August 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction anti-war novel feels like it was an instant classic. By the time I understood what science fiction was, I knew Slaughterhouse-Five was a […]

Kismet V.2 Depending On Patreon, Not Fate

August 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Wearing a unique fez and a diaphanous cape, Kismet, Man of Fate fought Nazis in World War II. After a mysterious force ripped him out […]

Attack of the Spaceknights: The Past And Future of Nathan Christopher Summers

August 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

How do you keep characters in continuity when you don’t have the rights to the original property? Marvel has been really good at this, allowing ROM […]

The Video Podcast: Comics And Conversation And Costa

August 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nate Costa returns to share his biggest comics get of the summer! We live streamed the podcast on video last night to talk about comics […]

DC Fandome Draws Near

August 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Though ComicCon@Home has faded, you may have noticed that other than a Constantine 15th anniversary reunion, DC Films really weren’t represented. Nor did much come out […]

David F. Walker Unleashes The Hated

August 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Two of the best comics I read in July were by David F. Walker. One was a graphic novel that had been on my stack […]

We Only Find Them When They’re Dead First Look

August 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

All BOOM! Studios had to say was Al Ewing and science fiction epic. That’s what Ewing has been doing over at Marvel, taking the Immortal […]

Super Australians, Pulp Fiction, And Christopher Sequeira

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

We hear a lot about the UK comics industry, but very little about Australia. It’s thriving, and about to explode into the US, thanks to […]

ComicCon@Home: Toonami Creepily Teases Uzumaki

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Actually, there’s no way to discuss Junji Ito’s Uzumaki without acknowledging that yes, it’s creepy. If you have to compare popular horror works in manga, Attack on […]

X-Men Speak In Star Trek Memes

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Magneto, when the walls fell. That’s how it must read to somebody not intimately conversant in the current run of Marvel’s X-Men books. Both Jonathan […]

Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode #580: Comic-Con@Home After Party

July 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Fanboys discuss what went right and wrong with Comic-Con@Home! Spoiler: It was mostly right. Also, the Eisner awards, and what’s happening in TV and movies!

Darwyn Cooke: The Lost Interview

July 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

At WonderCon 2008, Warner Bros. Animation premiered the DC Universe animated adaptation of Darwyn Cooke’s Justice League: The New Frontier. At the time, I was invited […]