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Section: Features

Articles and interviews on all things comics-related.

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Welcome to Repo City State: Adam Egypt Mortimer on ‘Ballistic’

  • by Jason Clyma
  • July 8, 2013

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…

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No Holds Barred: The Grit and Punk in Darick Robertson’s Career

  • by Levi Hunt
  • July 5, 2013

Next week, Black Mask Studios will release Ballistic, a psychedelic sci-fi adventure from Adam Mortimer and Darick Robertson. This series is a return to basics for Robertson as the artist…

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Marvel’s Superheroines: A Hard Sell, And Why DC’s Are Doing Better

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • July 4, 2013

After examining Paul O’Brien’s analysis of Marvel’s sales, Graeme McMillan’s Newsarama blog posed an interesting question: why the low sales for Marvel’s female-led titles? McMillan’s question is likely to draw…

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Farewell to ‘The Dandy’: UK Comics Anthology Ends Digitally As Well

  • by Tony Ingram
  • July 4, 2013

Yesterday, word got out that the long-running UK comics anothology The Dandy had halted its digital publication plans and that last week’s edition was the final one. It was only…

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How to Capture a Ghost: Joshua Williamson Talks ‘Ghosted’

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 1, 2013

On sale next week from Image Comics is Ghosted, a five-issue miniseries about Jackson T. Winters, a criminal mastermind who’s locked away in jail for good, until some rich bloke…

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Dave Gibbons’s War Machine: A Rogue Trooper Hit or Misfire?

  • by Tony Ingram
  • June 21, 2013

The War Machine, the first fourteen-part story to feature the rebooted version of 2000 AD’s Rogue Trooper by Dave Gibbons and Will Simpson, has just been released in collected form…

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Love Lost at Sea: Becky Cloonan Talks ‘Demeter’

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 18, 2013

June is a big month for Becky Cloonan. Not only is she drawing the spectacular The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, of which the first issue hit last week,…

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The Avengers: Earth’s Most Stylish Heroes

  • by Tony Ingram
  • June 3, 2013

There are plenty of heroes and groups of heroes in fiction, but few as innovative, as unusual or with just so much pure class as the Avengers, created way back…

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The Pre-Apocalypse Is Near: Ed Brisson Talks Sheltered

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • May 29, 2013

By now it’s pretty clear that those Mayans got it wrong. The world didn’t explode on December 21, 2012. But that doesn’t mean humanity is completely out of harm’s way,…

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Trading Up: The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 28, 2013

Over the last few years Titan Books have published a number of handsome collections of classic comics work by legendary creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. These have included volumes…

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Bryan J.L. Glass: The End of Mice Templar

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 21, 2013

Little creatures on a big adventure is normally something you’d associate with Disney, but Image Comics’ The Mice Templar is closer to fantasy epics by J.R.R. Tolkien, or George R.R….

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Heads in the Clouds: Jeff Ellis and Bevan Thomas Dream Big as Members of Cloudscape Comics Society

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 9, 2013

Denny O’Neil, comics writer and editor extraordinaire and one of the smartest guys on the planet when it comes to funny books, once said: “There is seldom one absolute, unarguable,…

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Free Comic Book Day 2013: What To Get – Part 2

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 3, 2013

Here is my final examination of this year’s offerings for the awesomeness that is Free Comic Book Day (see Part 1 here). All-Ages Kaboom! Summer Blast. BOOM! Comics’ all-ages imprint has…

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Free Comic Book Day 2013: What To Get – Part 1

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 2, 2013

Welcome to an introduction to one of the greatest comic loving days of the year. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, an annual occurrence on the first Saturday in May….

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Tony Stark vs. The Mandarin: Iron Man 3 Lives up to its Potential

  • by Kris Bather
  • April 30, 2013

Superhero sequels will always undergo scrutiny, and especially this franchise, after the rise of Robert Downey Jr, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, expectations were always going to be high. Thankfully,…

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C2E2 2013: Once Again a Blast for Comics Fans

  • by Eric Lindberg
  • April 28, 2013

The Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, now in its fourth year, continues to be one of the best pop cultural events in the Windy City. While keeping comics at the…

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Trading Up: Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 18, 2013

At its core, this Hit-Girl run is about one very damaged little girl trying to connect with a reality she cannot even begin to understand. The original Kick-Ass series was…

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