EXCLUSIVE Preview! BRAVEST WARRIORS #22
Some all-ages goodness from Boom! Out Wednesday 7/23!
A Little Bat-tease Ahead of SDCC!
As the Tweeterhead folks put together the finishing touches on Julie Newmar‘s Catwoman maquette, take a good look at something you’ll see MUCH more of at San Diego Comic-Con!
This Week in Original Sin: Who Pulled the Trigger?
SPOILER ALERT!! The mega-event roars along and this week it’s big stuff!
EXCLUSIVE! STERANKO Takes on Kane With His Detective Cover
The living legend, the Jimi Hendrix of comics art, JIM STERANKO tells 13th Dimension exactly how he came up with his Batman 75 variant for Detective Comics #33!
WHAT I’M READING, by Joe Caramagna
The writer who just happens to be one of the industry’s top letterers clues you in on what he’s digging these days — and what you should be checking out!
EXCLUSIVE Preview! WATCHMEN ARTIFACT EDITION from IDW
Dave Gibbons’ artistic tour de force gets the epic treatment with the San Diego Comic-Con Debut of IDW’s salute to the comics masterpiece.
VARIANTS! Best of the Week!
There’s a lot of great Archieness but I’m leading off with Cliff Chiang’s Robin Rises: Omega variant because I want a big print of it. Cliff, are you listening?
BATBOOK OF THE WEEK! Robin Rises: Omega #1
The Official BATMAN’S HOT-LINE Pick: Damian’s inevitable return from the dead begins here. But just how that will all play out is the mystery …
IN BAD TASTE: A Trip to 1987
Ah, comic conventions. Nothing makes me happier than to see old friends and colleagues at a local con, make new contacts, get sketches, or impress a chick with my haggling prowess. This convention I had another mission. One that started out with, “I’m not buying anything” turned into a tidy sum spent on a treasure trove of ridiculous back issues.
HOT PICKS: On Sale This Week
Lotta love for Archie and Bryan Lee O’Malley from the crew this week, as Menachem loses all sense of reason and lists a gazillion books.
MIGHTY Q&A: Gene Luen Yang Talks THE SHADOW HERO, Comics
I’ve been a fan of Gene Luen Yang‘s for some time and he’s one of those cartoonists whom I’ve wanted to profile as soon as the moment presented itself. Well, the moment presented itself and here’s the result: a MIGHTY Q&A with the creator of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints and the writer of the Avatar comics, as well as many other superb projects.
VIDEO: Matt Fraction Talks HAWKEYE and SEX CRIMINALS
Christy Blanch chatted with the writer as part of the awesome SuperMOOC 2 lecture series Social Issues Through Comics. Dig it!
The Creeps Is Almost Creepy
Miss the old Warren books like Creepy and Eerie? Not a comic book, but an actual magazine format like the old classics? Well Rich Scala has created an incredible version of his own that harkens back to those great publications.