Gail Simone’s Solution to Save Comics is Problematic
The pretentious comic scribe Gail Simone posted an appeal to the Big Two to produce another crossover teaming up cast members from both shared universes,…
Tag: Tom King
Tom King’s Adam Strange Miniseries Just Another Anti-War Metaphor
Polygon’s slobbering all over the dreadful Tom King’s new Strange Adventures, is nauseating. Not to mention that the concept of the book itself appears to…
Jim Lee Says DC Will Keep Focusing on “Inclusive & Diverse” Heroes
Newsarama reported on a conference veteran artist Lee, now the sole publisher overseeing DC, gave at C2E2, where he told what they’ll do going forward now…
Many of Comics Most Biased Writers Publicly Mourn Dan DiDio’s Firing
I looked around Twitter to see what any of the most biased writers and artists had to say following Dan DiDio’s dismissal from DC…
DC’s Strange Adventures Will Get the Black Label Treatment
DC’s Strange Adventures Hits Shelves March 4, 2020 DC’s highly anticipated new maxi-series Strange Adventures, scheduled to be published on March 4,…
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…
Disgraceful: DC Says Incapable of Successfully Selling Older Archives
Our much maligned inspiration, Bleeding Cool, recently wrote about DC cancelling quite a few trade collections of older material, which they claim is inexplicably…
Is it Time to End Monthly Comics? SyFy Almost Gets it Right
Wouldn’t you know it, somebody writing for a leading news publication seems to agree with my view that the monthly pamphlet model the industry’s…
The Problem With All These Superhero Resurrections in Comics
CBR wrote up a list of superheroes and such who underwent resurrections, for better or worse, and while I do think resurrection is far less…
Embarrassing: Comic Website Defends Tom King’s Miserable Influence
Comics Beat wrote a gushy article about the Tom King’s dismaying influence on comic book storytelling. it was typically rife with contradictions: …