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…
Tag: Joe Quesada
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…
Exactly What Went Wrong With Marc Webb’s Spider-Man Sony Films?
Screen Rant asked a few weeks ago what was wrong with Sony’s reboot of the Spider-movies, soon after Sam Raimi’s original 3: What went wrong…
Washington Post Sadly Bungles Story on Earliest Black Superhero
The Washington Post just did a story about the history of an early black superhero creation from the Golden Age, late 1940s called Lion Man, which…
Comic Industry Celebrates Partisans Ta-Nehisi Coates & Rachel Maddow
I’d provided a link in an earlier post to an earlier item about Image’s chief executive, Eric Stephenson, and what he says about where the medium appears…
Marvel Comics Fans Should Never Forget These Wretched Stories
CBR published another one of their mediocre lists of stories from past history, this one spotlighting embarrassing tales from over the years which they claim Marvel’s…
Why Marvel Comics Writer Donny Cates Says ‘No’ to ‘Fan Service’
The Texas Monthly did a podcast interview with Cates, who’s been assigned to succeed Jason Aaron as the Thor writer. At the beginning of…
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…