Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier comic book is easily one of my favorite books of all time. The individual issues happened to come out right after I got back into comics and played an integral role in convincing me of the medium’s potential. Later, DC sent me a review copy of the Absolute Edition of [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 28, 2008
Review: Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death
How about that for a long title?
I realize I’m a week late getting to this book, but I wanted to make sure and give it a firm thumps up. Strangely, my problem with the main Iron Fist series for the past few months has been that it’s so scattered and each plot advances so slowly [...]
February 27, 2008
RASL: Out today
Today marks many things, including the anniversary of the creation of the Grand Teton National Park, but most importantly it marks the release of the first independent comic released by Jeff Smith since Bone concluded a few years back.
RASL is a much more mature story than Bone or Smith’s Shazam book from DC last year. [...]
February 27, 2008
Preview: Life Sucks
Lest you think I’ve not been writing about comics lately, here’s a link to an article I just wrote for Publishers Weekly Comics Week about the upcoming book Life Sucks from First Second.
Life Sucks is written by Jessica Abel (of Artbabe fame) and Gabe Soria (a music journalist turned comics writer) and illustrated by Warren [...]
February 22, 2008
What’s new with me? Glad you asked
Some things are changing ’round these parts… Well, changing for me, anyway.
I won’t be writing about comics for the newspaper anymore. But, lest you fret, that doesn’t mean my days of comics journalizing have ended. I’ve taken up new positions with not one, not two, not three, but four publications.
That’s right, you can now [...]
February 20, 2008
Q&A: Tony Millionaire
Tony Millionaire’s latest book, Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees, comes out today from Fantagraphics. It’s the sixth collection of Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby stories (which range from scatalogical to suicidal, and often are both).
I had a chance to chat with Tony about the series, the upcoming Drinky Crow TV show and a host of [...]
February 20, 2008
Next Issue Project
Last week, Image Comics released the first book of their Next Issue Project, which brings together a group of star creators to put together the next issue of 60-year-old comics. The first issue, Fantastic Comics #24, picks up where issue number 23 left off decades ago when the book folded.
Those books featured a bunch of [...]
February 19, 2008
Tuesday Links
A lot of news over my long weekend away, and I’ll get to all of that. But, before I do, here’s a quick little bit of fun for you. Heck, any entrepreneurial comics fans out there are encouraged to meme to your heart’s content. What’s the most creative headline you can come up with for [...]
February 19, 2008
Preview: Dark Tower: The Long Road Home
Marvel will be repeating the midnight sale formula for the second book of their adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series. The Long Road Home #1 goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. on March 5. That special release — something more common to big movie, book and video game releases — for the first Dark [...]
February 15, 2008
Latest Issues
Still in Boston, learning about all sorts of interesting science-y stuff. Spent last night hanging out at the hotel bar, chatting with one of the world’s premier astronomers, a guy who tells NASA what to do. Comics writers could get any number of amazing ideas here. Hmmm, wait, I write comics…
I did get to the [...]
