The Issue: Empathy for the Henchman in 'The Invisibles' #12 (1995)
Welcome to The Issue, a new feature examining some of the strangest, most interesting and most distinctive single issue comic stories ever to grace the medium. You know the ones; silent issues,...
View ArticleLiving In The Shadows: Should You Be Reading 'Trees'?
The last few years have been incredible for big, smart sci-fi comics. Saga, Copperhead, Kaptara, Nameless, Lazarus, Southern Cross... and those are just the ones coming out of Image. If you're a fan of...
View ArticleThe Issue: Imperfect Harmony in 'Buffy Season Eight' #21
Welcome to The Issue, where we'll take a look at some of the strangest, most interesting and most distinctive single issue comic stories ever to grace the medium. You know the ones; silent issues,...
View ArticleICYMI: Everything is Imperfectly Normal in 'The Vision' #1
The last few ICYMIs on this site have featured Scooby-Doo meeting Harley Quinn, the Justice League teaming up with the Creature Commandos, and a dude taking a cinderblock to the spine. In that context,...
View ArticleThe Issue: The Moebius Strip Madness of 'Silver Surfer' #11
Welcome to The Issue, where we'll take a look at some of the strangest, most interesting and most distinctive single issue comic stories ever to grace the medium. You know the ones; silent issues,...
View ArticleThe Issue: A Very X-Men X-Mas in 'Uncanny' #143
What makes something a piece of Christmas culture? Does a late December setting qualify? Is a smattering of snow and tinsel enough? When that one friend tells you their favourite Christmas film is Die...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Collide: What We Learned From 2015's Secret Multiversal...
Back in March of 2015, a full-page advert appeared in the back of various DC comics, which asked; “Would you sacrifice another world so yours can live?” If you were following Jonathan Hickman's...
View ArticleThe Issue: The Not So Just So Story Of Rudyard Kipling And 'The Unwritten' #5
Mike Carey and Peter Gross' The Unwritten is a Vertigo fantasy thriller starring Tom Taylor, the namesake --- and potentially word-made-flesh incarnation --- of fictional boy wizard Tommy Taylor, as he...
View ArticleThe Bleakness + The Delight in 'Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl'
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are probably now best known for their Image series The Wicked + The Divine, set in a world where popstars are gods. Their other Image sieres, Phonogram, is set in a...
View ArticleThe Issue: Escaping the Box in Morrison & Van Fleet's 'The Clown at Midnight'
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. You know the ones; silent issues, sideways...
View ArticleSpider-Man Uncovered: Why The Half-Mask Look Is So Important to Peter Parker
For a film where he's maybe the dozenth biggest character, Captain America: Civil War does an incredible job of introducing the MCU version of Spider-Man. (Moderate spoilers follow if you haven't yet...
View ArticleThe Issue: X-Amining (and Re-X-Amining) X-Factor's Therapy Sessions [Mutant...
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. To mark the upcoming release of X-Men:...
View ArticleOur Mission Is To Make Everybody A Comics Fan: Comixology's David Steinberger...
Digital comics app Comixology pulled off a major surprise this week with the launch of Comixology Unlimited, a monthly subscription service that's hoping to be the Netflix of comics, the Spotify of...
View ArticleThe Issue: 'Generation Hope' And The Pain Of Being Different [Pride Week]
One of the most notable things about queer characters in comics, especially in the heart of the superheroic mainstream, is their absence, at least on a textual level. Queer subtext, though? There's...
View ArticleWorld Building: Character And Color in Stokely And Spurrier's 'The Spire'...
With its eighth issue, Si Spurrier and Jeff Stokely's The Spire wrapped up last week, bringing the the series' whodunnit to a satisfying and surprisingly emotional conclusion. Given that it starred one...
View ArticleThe Issue: 28 Days Later in 'Locke & Key: February'
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. You know the ones; silent issues, sideways...
View ArticleThe Issue: Time To Choose Your Own Adventure Time [Kids' Comics]
Adventure Time #10, "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Time," by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb, puts you in charge of Finn and Jake as they try to overcome a dastardly spell, by picking their...
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 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...
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