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Why are we afraid of ‘The End’?

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  • Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

The mythologies built by comics, particularly superhero comics, is often pointed out as one of the great accomplishments of the medium. There’s no doubt the Marvel and DC universes are impressive feats of world-building. In Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe proclaimed the Marvel Universe “the most intricate fictional narrative in the history of [...]

Andrew Garfield shoots hoops with kids while dressed as Spidey

When he’s not facing Electro or the Rhino, there are few things your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man enjoys more than playing basketball with a couple of local kids. Taking a break from filming The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York City’s Chinatown, star Andrew Garfield headed to a nearby basketball court — in full costume, no [...]

Cheat Sheet | From Phoenix Comicon to ‘Half Past Danger’

Welcome to “Cheat Sheet,” ROBOT 6′s guide to the week ahead. While some of you will be taking full advantage of the three-day Memorial Day Weekend by enjoying a summer blockbuster, a barbecue or the first dip of the year in the outdoor pool, others will be heading to the Phoenix Convention Center for the [...]

So much for the death of floppies

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  • Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

Two to three years ago, it seemed inevitable: Single issue comic books, derisively called “floppies,” were on the way out. Graphic novels were the future for most publishers, and floppies weren’t even working as loss-leaders. But over the past year, the single issue is on the rebound and flourishing. While I love graphic novels, the [...]

Comics A.M. | ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ debuts to more than 100,000

Comics sales | Is Mark Millar on to something after all? The first issue of Jupiter’s Legacy sold more than 105,000 copies to direct market stores in April; the only other Image comic to reach those numbers in recent years is The Walking Dead. ICv2 runs the numbers and also posts the Top 300 comics [...]

Should ‘The Movement’ #1 occupy a space on your ‘to buy’ list?

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  • Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 1:00 PM EST

Comics have a long history of reflecting the political and social issues of the times, whether that’s Green Arrow and Green Lantern dealing with teen drug abuse or Superman fighting slumlords. So it’s no surprise DC has two comics this month that draw influence from the Occupy movement that was all over the news media [...]

Grumpy Old Fan | The Movement is subversive all over

In the very first panel of The Movement #1 there’s a blonde in black leather and fishnets. Her strong resemblance to old-school Black Canary seems designed deliberately to remind readers of writer Gail Simone’s previous DC Comics work. However, there’s nothing straightforward — at least not yet — about this new series. Simone’s script is [...]

Jim Rugg goes Extreme in Rob Liefeld tribute pin-up

Some people wear their influences on their sleeve, while others absorb it into their own style and, from time to time, shout it from the rooftops. Jim Rugg is doing the latter in a stunning pin-up he created for the recent Extreme Comics fanzine Rub The Blood. Extreme is the brainchild of Rob Liefeld, whose [...]

Darryl Cunningham on ‘How to Fake a Moon Landing’

Darryl Cunningham’s How to Fake a Moon Landing, which debuted last month at MoCCA Arts Fest, looks at a number of popular fallacies, from homeopathy to global warming denial, and lays out not just the science behind each one but the history as well, including the personalities who drove them. Personal tales crossed over into [...]

Talking Comics with Tim | Delsante & Bednarski on ‘Prisoner of None’

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  • Monday, April 29th, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

Earlier this month, writer Vito Delsante and artist David Bednarski launched their new webcomic Prisoner of None. I was intrigued by a project that is partially inspired by the true story of Shoichi Yokoi, a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II who was found in 1972, hiding in the jungles of Guam, more than [...]

What Are You Reading? with Chris Sims

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  • Sunday, April 28th, 2013 at 3:53 PM EST

Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at all the comics and other stuff we’ve been checking out lately. Today our special guest is Chris Sims, senior writer for ComicsAlliance, blogger at Chris’s Invincible Super Blog and writer of comics like Dracula the Unconquered and Awesome Hospital. To see what Chris [...]

Conversing on Comics with Joe Casey

To the average comics reader, Joe Casey is the writer behind idiosyncratic creator-owned books like Gødland and Sex and the stellar re-imaginings of corporate-owned superheroes like Wildcats, Superman and the X-Men. But to the pre-teen set, he’s the co-creator of one of the hit kid-friendly animated series Ben 10 and a co-writer of Ultimate Spider-Man [...]

Comics-based movies: Breaking ‘the book was better’ rule

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  • Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 at 3:00 PM EST

Are you getting excited? New teasers and trailers are being released almost every day now. The countdown to Summer Movie Season is officially on, and the big blockbusters adapting comics are looking promising. Iron Man 3 has an armada of armors flying around; can’t really go wrong there. The Wolverine has ninjas as far as the [...]

Conversing on Comics with Eric Stephenson

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” — Frank Lloyd Wright It’s a telling quote, both for Wright and for Eric Stephenson, who used it on the masthead of the personal blog he wrote from 2010 to 2012. [...]

Don’t plan your trip to Hong Kong Disneyland’s Marvel area yet

A recent announcement by the Hong Kong government that the city’s struggling Disneyland will expand with a Marvel superheroes area appears to have been premature. “We haven’t confirmed anything about it as yet,”  Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs told The Wall Street Journal. The Marvel plans are being characterized as only part of [...]


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