Tuesday 10: Top 10 Superhero Origins

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Comics flow through a marketplace so fickle and so resistant to innovation that getting off on the right foot is damn near essential to any sort of success. While certain comics have been able to overcome a non-descript opening story (Daredevil came to mind while breaking out this list), ...

Tuesday 10: Bad Nineties Costume Redesigns

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I'm sure by now you've seen the sure-to-be-temporary Alex Ross redesign of Captain America debuting in January. It's not a bad design, I think, if a bit overdone with Ross' fondness for metallic materials; I actually like the callback to Cap's original shield in the ...

Frank Goddamn Miller

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Frank Miller's really just screwing with us at this point, isn't he? (From the preview for All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #6.) Every single mention of Batman in those panels is as "the goddamn Batman." I know that phrase (very intentionally constructed) took the brunt of some Internet mockery the ...