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…
Tag: Tom King
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: …
Even if Flash Forward Rewrites Heroes in Crisis, it Doesn’t Excuse It
Bleeding Cool says that in the 2nd issue of Flash Forward, by Scott Lobdell, what was set up in Tom King’s reprehensible Heroes in Crisis has…
Batman Ninja: No Man’s Mecha Inc.
While Marvel had been dominating the live-action market over the past years, DC had been equally dominant in the animated universe. Their domination on…
August Comic Sales Report: Marvel Sets Market Share Record
During my analysis of July’s comic book sales, I made the not-so bold prediction that Marvel was well positioned to dominate the market. Riding the…
Media Gaslighting Fails to Hide the Truth About Comicsgate
In a recent post entitled “The Truth About ComicsGate,” written by William Valle of Camel Moon Studios’ Late Night Online, he writes about first…
Did Tom King Just Kill Batman’s Butler Alfred Pennyworth?
As if it weren’t enough King penned one of the worst DC miniseries to come down the pike since Identity Crisis and Blackest Night,…