Section: Features
Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.
Chicago Comic-Con 2013: Superman at 75
At Chicago Comic-Con, several guest panelists discussed the impact of the Man of Steel on popular culture, the comics industry, and their own lives. Having reached his 75th anniversary and…
Does Comics Coverage Have an Impact? We Are Legion
Over at Multiversity Comics, David Harper wrote the article ‘In Defense of Comic Reviewers’, in which he responded to the discussion about the value of comics journalism (and reviewing in…
The DFC Library in Softcover
Last week saw the re-release of five books from the children’s comics specialists The DFC Library in new softcover editions. For those unaware of The DFC it was a brave…
Season Two, Finally! How the Second Season of ‘Morning Glories’ Has Been Playing Games With Its Audience
Morning Glories went from being one of the best, most original series, to being a bit of a mess. A fun mess, but a mess none-the-less. Season two promised a…
Inside ‘The Bunker’ with Joshua Fialkov and Joe Infurnari
Today finally marks the day that Johsua Fialkov and Joe Infurnari have been teasing for almost a month. Today, The Bunker‘s first issue finally sees release. The mysterious project has been…
Monsters will be the Weapons of WWIII: Josh Finney Talks ‘World War Kaiju’
Imagine a parallel history where a complex conspiracy has led the U.S. and Russia into an all our nuclear war. The weapons of choice, however, aren’t conventional or nuclear, but…
Ruling in Hell: A Conversation with James Turner on ‘Rebel Angels’
James Turner, of Rex Libris and Warlord of IO fame, has a new digital comic book coming out in August from SLG Publishing. Rebel Angels focuses on a revolution in…
One Week Till Midnight: Joshua Williamson Brings Captain Midnight Into the Present
Move aside, Steve Rogers… there’s a new Captain in town! Much like Captain America, Captain Midnight is a war superhero who ends up in our time and needs to figure…
Battling Cynicism, Four New Monkeybrain Comics at a Time
At San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, Monkeybrain announced the launch of five titles on their website coinciding with their one year anniversary as a company. Heartbreakers is a re-release…
Jeremy Whitley: Breaking In and Breaking Out with the Creator of Action Lab’s ‘Princeless’
With a prestigious Glyph Award and multiple Eisner nominations already under his belt, Jeremy Whitley seems poised to take the comic book world by storm. His work on Princeless is…
Did Image Expo 2013 Signal That Robert Kirkman’s Manifesto Is In Full Effect?
Five years ago, Robert Kirkman was named a partner at Image Comics. Around that same time he released a video that has come to be called ‘the Kirkman Manifesto’ on…
The Wild West of Webcomics: Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark on ‘The Guns of Shadow Valley’ and its Kickstarter Campaign
In 2009, Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark launched their webcomic, The Guns of Shadow Valley, a mystical western. In subsequent years, the series garnered both an Eisner and Harvey…
Biff! Bam! Pow! A Bat Blast from the Bat Past: 1966 in Batman Comics
Jump in the Bat-Time Machine kids. You’ve read the Batman ’66 digital comic by Jeff Parker and Jonathan Case already and you’ve seen the show it’s inspired by, but what…
Valiant Comedy: It’s The Return of Quantum and Woody, Y’All!
The success of the more marketable concepts of Valiant’s recent relaunch has allowed the publisher to experiment with other titles in its archives, testing how well some of their wackier…
Welcome to Repo City State: Adam Egypt Mortimer on ‘Ballistic’
This week’s release of Ballistic from writer Adam Egypt Mortimer and artist Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, The Boys, Happy!) will surely be explosive. Ballistic chronicles the life of air-conditioner repairman turned…







