Notes of a Defeatist

Every month two comics—Criminal and Scalped are the bright spots that never fail to make the wait until the next month worth while and getting to the last page kinda depressing. If you’ve neglected to pick up Scalped—you’re in luck. Download the first issue here.You won’t regret it.Jason Aaron concocts a fantastic western flavored noir set [...]

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Every summer my friends and I venture down to Chicago for the Wizard World Comic Con to gorge ourselves on all the pop culture we can find. Without fail every year a good amount of time gets spent checking out the DIY projects of many of the creators in Artist Alley.

The talent pool is [...]

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In 1979 the television gods smiled down and gave us Legends of the Super Heroes!

Taking a team of some of DC Comics’s greatest superheroes Hanna-Barbera’s producers pitted them in a race to stop a villainous team’s plot—and to also have the occasional roast hosted by Ed McMahon.

Robin Crashes the Batmobile



Ghetto Man Roasts The Super Friends



Aunt [...]

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Are comics too made up and silly?

Tired of people in capes and spandex prancing around trying to “fix” everything?
Planned Parenthood thought so.
That’s why they put out a comic on birth control to help educate youngsters back in the 60s.

tags technorati : Planned Parenthood, Birth Control, Comics, Problems

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Having been a fan of Miller’s since junior high, seeing Sin City come to the big screen was a mixed joy. The movie is a panel for panel, word for word cinematic translation of the comic that is a two hour example of the good, bad, and ugly about literal adaptations. 300 never got my [...]

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Marvel’s Red, White, and Blue Boyscout finally got interesting and they killed him off.



(Time.com)

tags technorati : comic books, cry-babies, Captain America, Marvel, Civil-War, geeks

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A faithful thirty second adaptation of Marvel’s big event book of the last year. (thanks to Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog)

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On YouTube in ten parts—Alan Moore talking comics.

tags technorati : Alan Moore, Comics

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