Costume Drama: How Iron Fist's Classic Costume Channelled His Chic
It's obviously not the most disappointing thing about the series, but when it was confirmed that Netflix's Iron Fist show wouldn't feature the character's classic duds, my heart sank. Partly because it...
View ArticleCostume Drama: The Ever-Changing Look of America Chavez
After a couple of years as the undisputed champion of ‘character most bafflingly lacking their own comic’, Ms America Chavez finally has a solo title. With the second issue about to land, it’s a good...
View ArticleThe Issue: Cold And Alone In 'Transmetropolitan' #8 [Sci-Fi Week]
Welcome to The Issue, where we look at some of the strangest, most interesting, and most distinctive single issue comic stories ever to grace the medium. For Sci-Fi Week at ComicsAlliance, we're...
View ArticleThe 'Saga' Continues: Catching Up With Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples'...
When a comic runs for a long while at a consistent level of quality, with a single reliable creative team, it can often slip out of the conversation. When it launched four and a half years ago, Brian...
View ArticleThe Issue: Double Exposure In 'Shutter' #23 [Fantasy Week]
Throughout its run, Shutter has delighted in pushing the boundaries of comics. Leila Del Duca turned her pen to pastiches of everyone from Hergé to Winsor McCay to Richard Scarry. Owen Gieni separated...
View ArticleRepetition and Replicants: The Use of Sampling in King and Walta's 'Vision'
Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's The Vision features a lot of quotation and repetition. Dialogue and scenes are reprised a few pages or issues later; objects that make a quick appearance in issue...
View ArticlePin Ups: Comic Artists Cover David Bowie For 'Moonage Daydreams' Exhibition...
Moonage Daydream is an art exhibition that describes itself as an "illustrated tribute" to David Bowie. Twenty-one artists from comics and beyond have taken on 21 different albums or singles, creating...
View ArticleEat Nuts And Kick Butts: The 'Unbeatable Squirrel Girl' Mixtape [Music Week]
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, by Ryan North, Erica Henderson and Rico Renzi is a vibrant, self-reflexive, upbeat and funny female-led comic --- and those happen to be all the qualities I enjoy in my pop...
View Article10 Forgotten Comics From Real Musicians [Music Week]
Music and comics have a long history of influencing one another, whether it’s story titles borrowing lyrics, band names taken from dialogue, or that one time that Matt Fraction had a Britney Spears...
View ArticleImage at 25: How 'Sex Criminals' Proved That Comics Can Do Rom-Coms
Rom-coms are all too rare in comics. Most stories have a romantic plot threaded through them somewhere, but books dedicated to telling a love story are few and far between in the modern market. So when...
View ArticleCostume Drama: How Iron Fist's Classic Costume Channelled His Chic
It's obviously not the most disappointing thing about the series, but when it was confirmed that Netflix's Iron Fist show wouldn't feature the character's classic duds, my heart sank. Partly because it...
View ArticleCostume Drama: The Ever-Changing Look of America Chavez
After a couple of years as the undisputed champion of ‘character most bafflingly lacking their own comic’, Ms America Chavez finally has a solo title. With the second issue about to land, it’s a good...
View Article'Cover Versions': Comic Artists Remix Classic Album Covers
Music and comics. Like chocolate and peanut butter, they're two great tastes that taste undeniably great together. Until 14th May, London's Orbital Comics store is celebrating the union of the two art...
View ArticleWhy 'The Wicked And The Divine' is Worth Losing Your Head Over
Fandemonium, the second arc of The Wicked + The Divine, is the work of creators at the top of their games. Jamie McKelvie gets more room than ever to showcase costume designs that tell you everything...
View ArticleThumbnail: Matt Murdock, Super Chef!
Daredevil as the world's greatest cook. It's hard to resist that one-line pitch, so when 'Hell's Kitchen', written by Si Spurrier and drawn by Jonathan Marks, cropped up in solicitations of Secret Wars...
View ArticleThe Scene of the Crime is the Story in Gillen and Francia's 'Mercury Heat'...
Doing a police procedural in a fantasy setting isn't an entirely new idea in comics. Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood launched the genre into a fresh orbit last year with The Fuse. Before that, Top...
View ArticleNoir on Fire in Kot, Taylor and Loughridge's 'Wolf' #1 [Review]
Wolf #1, written by Ales Kot with art by Matt Taylor and Lee Loughridge, opens with one of the most beautifully distinct images I've seen in a comic this year: a man on a hillside overlooking LA; the...
View ArticleAdventures of a Reluctant Explorer: Should You Be Reading 'Shutter'?
With Fables having just wrapped up after 13 years of combining fantasy characters and creatures with a more-or-less real world setting, there's no better time to pick up Shutter. Joe Keatinge and Leila...
View ArticleMad Science & Crazy Humor: Should You Be Reading 'Universe'?
When you look at the sheer range and number of original stories being told in comics form today, it’s hard to imagine a better time to be a comics reader. Online and in print, from all around the...
View ArticleThumbnail: Design and the Distillation of Ideas in Mike Del Mundo's Covers
Comics covers are strange beasts. While comics themselves are sequential art --- pictures arranged in just the right order to tell a story or convey an emotion --- covers freeze that process into a...
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