Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Chicago Bears linebacker a big aficionado of genre Bears linebacker Lance Briggs may be the most nonchalant comic book geek in the world, understandably oblivious to the taunts and snickers that greet your average, physically less-intimidating hard-core enthusiast.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Chicago Bears linebacker a big aficionado of genre Lance Briggs sank into the squishy red upholstered chair at Challengers Comics on Western Avenue. He sank so deeply his chin peeked above the table top before him. And though he looked a bit uncomfortable, he smiled like a kid who just found the compatriots he never knew he had.
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
It looks like X-Men Origins: Magneto could be in serious doubt. The more intelligent X-Men Origins tale has huge potential, but at the same time huge restrictions, after all the young life of Magneto is set around concentration camps and the idea of justice moving into revenge and vengeance. These ideas are far from the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film we saw. Meanwhile the studio behind the franchise...
Marvel (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The new X–Men event is off to a red–hot start!
Titivil (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Comic book break: there are only two comic book storylines that I would recommend for reading, from first issue to last issue, by the random person that was not raised into a familiarity with sequential art and the stories it tells. (I would call these people fogeys, but boy my back is killin' me.) The second one (first one some other time) is the writer Grant Morrison's run on "New X-Men"...
Written World (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Yesterday's mail held treasures beyond my expectations. Not just one, but two orders of comics awaited my perusal when the work day was over. I devoured the Marvel books, particularly the Wolverine List special. I'll admit, I'm one of those people annoyed to see Marvel Boy disappear from Dark Avengers . I like the character, even as written by Bendis. He's clearly a hero, but his bitterness is directed...
4thletter! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Grant Morrison ruined the X-Men when he wrote New X-Men. No, really, it’s true. Look at Marvel’s moves after he left the book. The very first thing they did was launch X-Men: Reload, a branding and soft-relaunch initiative that saw Chris Claremont put on Uncanny X-Men, Chuck Austen placed on the last two issues of New [...]
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Typically, in the great tug-of-war over which is most important to a comic — great art or great writing — I tend to think that writing wins out most of the time. A good narrative will get me through a webcomic any day, while nice art satisfies only but for a moment. But, you know, there’s a chance I’m looking at this debate all wrong. What if a lot of webcomic artists are just...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
"A serious house on serious earth." The sub title of this symbolic tome speaks of what is to be found inside this version of the Asylum. You will find no camp here. While based on Batman's recent visit to the Asylum on the console front, this source material takes the Dark Knight further into a selective kind of dementia. H.P Lovecraft once said of fear: We are afraid of what is unseen and...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Paul McGuigan and Grant Morrison are to collaborate on an unnamed project.
Comics-and-More (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The Necrosha one-shot is the beginning of a new X-Men crossover that will carry through three specific X-titles: X-Force, New Mutants and X-Men: Legacy . The story is of psychic vampire Selene, formerly Black Queen of The Hellfire Club and one of my favorite villains of the Marvel Universe, and her attempted rise to godhood. In this crossover, she makes use of a techno-organic virus that raises the...
IGN (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
IGN reviews Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine #1.
comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Your weekly bag check for the biggest books, and those you may have missed. For a complete list of items released this week, check out our weekly shipping list . BIG EVENTS BLACKEST NIGHT #4 & GREEN LANTERN #47 (DC) | The Geoff Johns penned mega-series continues this week, both in the pages of Blackest Night and the main series that it spun out from. At the end of issue #3, we were teased with...
4thletter! (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
This is a different kind of Continuity Off, as Esther and I break down six plot twists and turns that we've enjoyed over the years.
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