As we learned earlier this week, adapting comic books can be a daunting task even for an accomplished work. Invincible has already taken more than a few creative liberties in how it has handled adapting the original comic, but its latest episode proved that it can still take a faithful moment from the books, and … Read more
Editor’s Note: The below contains spoilers for ‘X-Men ’97’. The Big Picture X-Men ’97 features X-Cutioner and Goblin Queen as new antagonists for the team to face. X-Cutioner’s backstory involves tragic events leading to his transformation into a mutant hunter with alien weapons and tech. X-Cutioner partners with the Punisher for a mission and later … Read more
Adaptation is always a challenge—but it’s a particularly daunting one in the case of comic books, where a new medium has to reckon with translating sagas told across years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the most part, X-Men ‘97’s latest episode navigates this task the best it can, but the sacrifices it makes come … Read more
Image: Dark Horse Comics Since 1994, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has dipped in and out of making comics. Beyond teaming with Gabriel Bá on The Umbrella Academy, he started DC’s Young Animal imprint, teamed with acclaimed artists such as Nick Derington and Becky Cloonan, and co-created Peni Parker for Marvel. After a three-year … Read more
Image: DC Comics Adult Swim’s My Adventures with Superman was a pleasant surprise when dropped in last year, and one of DC’s best animated outings in some time. Audiences really seemed to get on board with the romcom antics of Superman and Lois Lane, and DC’s taking advantage of that momentum by giving it its … Read more
In a few weeks, the ‘90s are back in style—well, if you’re a fan of Marvel’s merry mutants, that is. It’s not too much longer until X-Men ‘97, the new continuation of the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series hits Disney+, and Marvel has now dropped the titles for all 10 episodes of season one… including … Read more
Freelance comic book writers and artists have accused publisher Scout Comics of not paying them for their work, in some cases not doing so (or communicating with them) for a year or more. Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part Two It all started when Jarred Luján, co-creator of the 2023 one-shot All the Devil … Read more
If Ed Brubaker is getting tired by now, he isn’t showing it. Twenty-three years after he first teamed up with artist Sean Phillips (on an out-of-continuity Batman noir story called Gotham Noir), the comic writer has been around the block more than few times. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve He … Read more
Summary Wesley Dodds: The Sandman challenges the old Comics Code Authority with a renegade U.S. military general villain. The series bravely subverts the Comics Code by portraying the U.S. military in a negative light, going against established authority. The new Sandman storyline weaves complex commentary on comics history and the Comics Code Authority into an … Read more
Few joys in this cold world can match cracking open a new comic on a lazy Sunday morning. Nothing to do, nowhere to be — just you, a mug of coffee and some sequential art. Not much has fundamentally changed about the American comic book since publishers began collecting newspaper strips as bound volumes in … Read more