Have you ever picked up a random read and simply clicked with it. Like, it’s not only a great book, but it’s also the exact thing you needed to read at this exact time? Recently I’ve been reading a lot of books that I’ve liked, but as soon as I…
There are so many recent comic series I could have talked about: The Avant-Guards, Naomi, Goddess Mode, Nancy Drew, the new lines of Sandman, Die, and Blackbird all come to mind. But I’ll save a few of those for later. Some I want to let cook a bit longer with…
Among current comic titles there are a handful that are acknowledged as classics in the making. Y: The Last Man, Monstress, The Walking Dead, though this last one possibly by sheer exposure and reputation more than the quality of the current story. One title that almost always comes up is…
Saturday was Free Comic Book Day! I feel like this day goes by without much note to the general public each year, and that’s a shame. FCBD is an happens each year on the first Saturday in May. Well, this year it was May 5th so if you didn’t go…
Ideas tend to crop up in pop culture over and over, as fast as they become irrelevant, can just as quickly they become relevant once more. Vampires can represent a repressed Victorian sexuality, or the roiling power of young adulthood. Robots can be the cold, inhuman force of communism, or combined…
Superman is a strange character in terms of pop-culture. He’s one of the most well known superheroes in the world and yet most people pillory him and point out his lackluster cinematic record. There’s probably no easier A-list character to make fun of than the man of steel. He’s a…
