Amazing Arizona Comic Con January 6-8, Mesa Convention Center Mesa, Arizona One of the best things about living in Arizona is that I don’t have to wait until summer for my comic convention fix. Amazing Arizona Comic Con is the first con of the year and it’s right in my backyard. This is only A2C2′s second [...]
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Having looked at female characters on network (young, mostly white) and cable television (less young, less white), let us now turn our attention to women in 2011;s biggest movie releases.
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Renowned artist, Mike DeBalfo, best known for bringing the sin to scintillating on Zenescope comic covers, has launched a satellite studio and retail outlet at Jesse James Comics, in Glendale, Arizona.
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Dorothy Gale in the wild West, with Toto, her horse… A home-grown, college-bound, anti-cowtipping superhero with a cybernetic tail… Angels, and devils, and Mary Magdalene in Las Vegas (oh my!)… We are certainly not in Kansas, or in the pages of any comic book you’ll see emerging from DC or Marvel. No, these are the brain children of writer and publisher, Tom Hutchinson.
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The day care kids next door decided that John, who they already think is pretty awesome, has the best job in the world: colorist on Age of Bronze.
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I’ve been trying to put my thoughts together about The Power Within since reading it the other day and haven’t really been able to for one reason: I got so angry.
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Oh no! Starfire has sex! Oh no! Catwoman has sex and shows everybody her BRASSIERE! Oh no! There’s a lot more men than women working for the big comic book publishers! Well, here’s some perspective. From a time when comic books were a publishing FORCE, selling in the millions each month across a wide variety [...]
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The #1 is inviting. It signifies the beginning of something (possibly) great. #1 softly whispers, “Yeeeesssss, come, pick me up, hold me in your hands, let us adventure together through this magical place.” I am going to have so many books whispering sweet nothings to me come September.
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I’m hoping that with Captain America and the upcoming The Amazing Spider Man we can let the “origins of a hero” trope lie fallow for ten to twenty years. I would hate to see this being an overplayed trend, as sometimes audiences don’t need to know the full backstory of a protagonist. Sometimes it’s what you don’t see that’s the most intriguing.
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Loki is one of the best cinematic villains I’ve seen. Loki is not just some evil-for-its-own-sake-because-it’s-in-my-nature type of antagonist. He’s a sympathetic villain, and his characterization raises the bar even further.
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On the digital drawing board: Character designs for Eric Esquivel’s “The World Needs Heroes” (working title). Related Stuff:
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We have an exclusive preview of Tales of Asunda: Silver Blood, Issue 0, a new release from Stranger Comics. Preview the first four pages after the jump.
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One of my biggest frustrations as a writer is that I can’t draw. There are stories in my head that just can’t come out the way I want because, when that pencil goes to task, it just comes out a mess.
Naturally, I’m very interested to know how Oliver Mertz and Mike Isenberg, creators and writers on the indie comic First Law of Mad Science went about getting their ideas drawn and produced. Here, Oliver and Mike talk about finding an artist, getting First Law of Mad Science into production, and karaoke.
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Things are heating up at the House at Dupont Circle! What is the Prophecy of the Pendragon? What Occult weapon threatens the fate the United States…for the second time? And what exactly is an Astral Amplifier?! LUCID #2 takes you one more giant leap into the strange world of Matthew Dee as the novice Combat [...]
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Welcome to Anoreve, a world in between time, where children have played so long it’s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time.
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DR Hanson – Will they like me, these geeks and gamers? Will I fit in with my Flash T-Shirt I bought at Urban Outfitters or will I be eyed curiously as a poser who bought his Flash T-Shirt at Urban Outfitters? I rest upon the knowledge that I’m well versed in much of comic lore, following the X-Men since I was 8, and if all else fails, I know my strapping partner will defend my right to be there as a veteran Con goer himself. I almost hope for an altercation involving a pencil so I could watch Jamison masterfully deflect the number two weapon with the reflexes of Matt Murdock.
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