The Cape is going to be the best comic of 2011 that npt enough people are reading. Coming out from IDW, and spiralling from a Joe Hill prose tale (and Joe Hill apparently co-writes but the extent of his involvement is never quite clarified), The Cape is all about a very weird and warped man [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2011 by ryan
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Man, when Remender is good on Uncanny X-Force he is damn brilliant. This book is insane fun that’s equal parts 90s superhero romp, Claremont soap opera, and just flat out fun book. Part of my love is the old school fanboy in me digging it, and the other part is critical appreciation of his structure [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2011 by ryan
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I like crime comics and I love great crime comics. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of Criminal. It’s going to go down in history as a defining comic for this era and I’m fine with that. Right now, we’re in the middle of a very good story. Hit the link below to [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2011 by ryan
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On thoughtballoons this week, we’ve chosen Captain America to coincide with the release of the flick (we’re sneaky like that). We also placed a caveat that our scripts must be set in WWII. I started my script by going to the internet and researching some different WWII stuff. I eventually came to Pykecrete and my [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2011 by ryan
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Miniseries for The Boys have been pretty average on the whole but this one…isn’t too bad. I’m not sure what I was expecting but this one kind of felt too much like what you thought might happen. I wanted more to be surprised. Overall, a decent comic. Hit the link below to read: Butcher, Baker, [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by ryan
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At the start of the year, I made some predictions for the coming year of comics. They were: 1. Marvel To Make Comics at $3.99 2. Gødland Celestial Edition #3 3. Casanova Returns, For Reals 4. Remender On Daredevil 5. BKV Comics 6. Steve Back As Cap 7. No More Ultimate Comics 8. Icon To [...]
Posted on July 20th, 2011 by ryan
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I am a writer. Why then, you might ask, are you going to hear my voice? Excellent question. I’ve just kicked off a comic writing podcast called The Process. It features the vocal stylings of me (natch), and Kurtis Wiebe (superstar Image writer of GREEN WAKE and THE INTREPIDS), and Jeremy Holt (another up and [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2011 by ryan
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Mystery Men is just flat out a good comic. It’s fun, it’s pulpy, it’s varied. It’s about everything I want and while it isn’t perfect it is a hell of a lot better than the usual dreck out there. If you haven’t sampled Mystery Men yet then you should, or pre-order the trade, or something, [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2011 by ryan
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I’m a Hellraiser fan so I’d probably stick with this comic longer than most but I’m happy to report at the moment I don’t have to force myself to read it. It’s pretty good in some areas and I check it out mostly to see what crazy horror they’ve packed into it this time. What [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2011 by ryan
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Scott Snyder’s run on Detective Comics has been pretty damn good so far. How nice, then, that he can still up his game towards the end. This issue plays two distincts beats and it does both near perfectly. The Joker is disgustingly menacing and the Gordon pages hold so much depth. Brilliant. Hit the link [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2011 by ryan
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