DiDio’s Departure Doesn’t Guarantee Recovery, But There’s Hope for DC
Dan DiDio was fired from DC Comics this past Friday morning by Warner Bros. According to reports he was fired, for cause, for…
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In Praise of Early Romance Comics: They Upheld Positive Values
The Conversation wrote about the history of romance comics, including Joe Simon/Jack Kirby’s own contribution, Young Romance, and the brief success they had in the…
Please Give Us Better Spider-Man Comics Than the Past Decade’s
Here’s a CBR list from last November where they gush over some of the worst Spider-Man tales Joe Quesada and Axel Alonso led to: …
Comicdom Still Hasn’t Gotten Past the Bad Habits of the 90’s
CBR recently published a list of items that according to them have either lasted or haven’t since the 1990s, and the viewpoints they have are not…
Marvel Comics’ “Incoming” Event is An Embarrassment
The mainstream superhero obsession with company wide crossovers continues, as Marvel foists their latest “Incoming” upon the audience, a story that stinks of…
Fredric Wertham’s Vile Legacy Continues in Today’s Modern Comics
The Akron Beacon Journal wrote about the history of the anti-comics witch hunt that ensued in the wake of people like Fredric Wertham in 1954,…
Videogame Media Trashes Tomb Raider But Hails “Exciting” Ms Marvel
It’s not often I comment on videogames per se, but I thought this recent item on CBR, claiming the original Tomb Raider games “haven’t aged…
Mark Waid’s ‘Ignited’ is a Grossly One-Sided Political Comic
France 24/AFP’s written all about what Mark Waid and Kwanza Osajyefo’s Ignited, published by Humanoids Associates, is intended for – attacking right-wing politics in the…
How Spider-Man’s Secret Identity Was Turned Into a “PC Football”
CNET wrote about the history of Peter Parker’s efforts to conceal his ID as Spidey as best as he could over past decades, and how it’s…
Marvel Comics EIC C.B. Cebulski is a Complete Failure
Marvel Comics has been on a downward trajectory in terms of overall quality and customer service for years. Under the leadership of former Editor-in-Chief (EIC)…