All Of The Marvels Is A Marvel
Reading every comic book Marvel has released is a Sisyphean task. By the time you’ve finished 27,000+, they’ve added another 1,000. Coincidentally, Sisyphus is one […]
Steve Ditko
Douglas Wolk Read (And Sang) All Of The Marvels
We know when we have bested, and the proof is in print. When author and comics expert Douglas Wolk’s son asked where to start reading […]
Blue Beetle Gets A Director
DC Films moves forward with Angel Manuel Soto to bring Jaime Reyes to the big screen.
Paramount Shoulders A New/Old Comics Universe
Do you remember thrilling to the adventures of The Grim Ghost? Paramount Studios hopes that might ring a bell, as they just went in with producers […]
Banner! Banner! Burning Bright
In the past year, a comic book has sparked conversations between my 14-year-old son and myself about the poetry of William Blake, Paradise Lost, and […]
Absolutely Leap Into The Spider-Verse
Anybody could be Spider-Man. Maybe Phil Lord’s screenplay overplays the line, but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse proves the point — joyfully. In the process, Sony Pictures […]
In Search Of Steve Ditko With Jonathan Ross
I buried this in my encomium to Ditko’s passing last night, but realized this morning that I should highlight it — if you want to […]
What You Owe Steve Ditko
Maybe you owe Steve Ditko nothing, because he wouldn’t have accepted your money, unless it was a fair trade for his work. But pop culture […]
Review: Avengers: Infinity War
This is the movie we’ve anticipated and feared. Avengers: Infinity War pulses with excitement, the cinematic equivalent of reading a Marvel Comics company-wide crossover. It’s got […]
The Fantastic Michael Fleisher
The comics world lost a key talent last month, but only found out this week. Though he had not written comics for a few decades, […]
First Look: Hawk and Dove on ‘Titans’
While everybody’s excited about Marvel movie news this week, we must remember that at least as far as television goes, DC keeps on getting well-represented. […]
Marvel Unveils T-Shirt Variant Covers
Marvel promised they were changing the way you read comics. Maybe they meant you could change shirts. Bringing out old-school licensed images from t-shirts using […]
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
The Spider-Man movie we have waited for.
Review: ‘Doctor Strange’
Strange? Perhaps a bit. Yet Doctor Strange could have afforded to be a bit stranger. To tell the story of the Master of the Mystic Arts, […]
Casting Captain Marvel:
Make Her Asian
Like most of America, I saw Captain America: Civil War this week. I loved it. This, however, is not an article about the differences between […]