Gerard Waggett    The Brave and the Bold Death Has the Last Laugh proclaimed itself the strangest team up in history, pairing Batman with his arch enemy, the Joker. The two join forces to capture a gangster who has more

Scott Weatherly    When Nature Attacks Having achieved his goal of joining with the Green, Woodrue quickly begins his attack on the human race. Woodrue starts small but his escalation is devastating. The killing of a group of more

Scott Weatherly    Joining the Monster Squad Monsters enter our lives at an early age. We are told stories about the things that dwell in the shadows and the corners of our minds. The creatures that we more

Nikolai Fomich    Though all this information can be inferred, what the black pin signifies is not explicitly stated on page one, and so readers are encouraged to turn the page to learn more. Page two is an more

Nikolai Fomich    The final page of the opening scene, page three, is a splash page. In fact, the boy literally emerges from the depths with a splash. This splash page is effective in part because it follows more

Nikolai Fomich    Several years ago, I received a rejection letter from AD in the mail for a story I had pitched called The Colorblind Cannibal . In the letter was a brief note explaining that the story didn’t more

Brian Puaca    An unlikely brown paper schoolbook cover produced by DC Comics and distributed by the Institute for American Democracy IAD received a great deal of attention following the violent protests in Charlottesville in August . more

Tom Shapira    The world of cape comics has a rather tortured relationship with certain sets of words used to describe a character, creator or project. Iconic,’ for instance, is probably one of the most overused words in our more

David Sweeney    The Authority’s sister’ title, Planetary was also launched in , following a preview story included in the WildStorm titles Gen and C in September of the previous year. Conceived as a series in which Ellis more

Benjamin Hall    DC One Million and Batman Beyond along with many other examples suggest that the concept of legacy characters and superhero parenthood can work. Yes, this ages the characters, but we have been stuck in the more

Michael Campochiaro    For those of us of a certain age, who grew up on comic books in the s and s, it seems like we’re losing far too many of the great creators who helped shaped our more

Joe Muszynski    Though I was never a regular reader of Superman comics, his presence was felt. In the Justice League comics and on cartoon shows of the era, Superman was always featured, his powers looming large over more

Mike Phillips    If you like to make all of your hard copy purchases through your Local Comics Shop, and you want The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer more

Michael Campochiaro    Discussions of DC Comics in the s tend to focus on works like The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and Crisis on Infinite Earths. That’s fitting, because all of these were game changers for the industry, more

Michael Campochiaro    Throughout the history of DC Comics, two female characters stand above the rest, in terms of appearances and popularity in the broader culture: Wonder Woman Diana Prince and Lois Lane. It can be argued that more

Mark J. Hayman    It’s true, pobody’s nerfect. We live with our foibles and imperfections, our biases and misconceptions, and hope that they don’t cause too many problems for ourselves or those around us. The human failing that most more

Tom Shapira    As the Internet rages at Rebirth and Nick Spencer, Tom and Shawn discuss the passing of Darwyn Cooke, the latest desperation tactics at Marvel and DC, casting news for Thor: Ragnarok, and August Previews. We more

Mark J. Hayman    Timeliness is next to prescience, or something like that. Here I was preparing this screed when I chanced upon an article by a person who insists that the survival of comic books is dependent upon more

James Kelly    Beginning in , two simple creators will develop an entire genre of entertainment that will change the world. The humble beginnings of superheroes as pure heroes to guide America through the Great Depression. more

Jarrett Mazza    If you consider yourself familiar with comic’s most popular super heroes than you are capable of identifying those that are considered the best: Superman, Spider Man, Batman, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and more

Ian Dawe    I’m fairly open about my own tastes and predilections when it comes to comics, or any other medium. I’ll freely admit to anyone who cares to ask that, while I love comics, I’m not that more

Dave Whittaker    By far the biggest news to come out of SDCC, for me personally, was She Makes Comics winning best documentary at the independent film festival. Second to this was the fruit borne of the Multiversity more

Mike Phillips    As part of its ongoing Patreon campaign, Sequart runs a Book Movie of the Month Club. Patrons get a digital copy of a Sequart book or movie at the beginning of each month, and more

Debarghya Sanyal    The superhero world is in bit of a rumble. Recently, Zack Snyder dropped another of his completely predictable little bombs, and we suddenly have a very familiar looking Aquaman on the blocks. Did anyone notice more

Ed Cambro    Diversity has always been a problem in comics. In the early days, minorities were nigh invisible, and women were usually relegated to romantic interests damsels in distress. In the modern era, however, DC and Marvel have more

Ryan C.    Note: This is a companion editorial of sorts to the Marvel Is Rebooting Its Universe. So What piece I wrote for Sequat on Wednesday, January st. Apparently there’s something of a PR war going on between the more

Ryan C.    Before we get into the beginning of the end here, I suppose we’d better talk about that cover first. Yeah, it’s not by Kirby. In fact, I’m willing to bet that even if his distinctive more

Ian Dawe    Image Comics announced this past Thursday that they will now be offering a direct mail service to their US customers for over of their most popular titles, including Rat Queens, Sex Criminals, The Walking more

Ian Dawe    Comics were everywhere in , and not just from my perspective. Check your Facebook page, or Twitter feed, and if you’re anything like me you’ll see at least one probably three Cyanide and Happiness, for more

Greg Carpenter    If you read last week’s column, you know that I recently attended the second annual Nashville Comic Con. This week, I’d like to talk about one of the panels that made a particular impression on more

Ian Dawe    On those rare occasions when I teach students about superhero comics, one question that always comes up is what defines a hero . Is, for example, a hero simply an individual who does heroic things Or more

Ian Dawe    A recent clip of Fox Newsbots prattling on about superheroes without any tangible connection to reality has been making the rounds this week, just as has happened many times before. Among the many idiotic things more

Anthony Castle    Jeffrey Baldwin was powerless. The five year old had lived, and died, locked in a cold bedroom in the Toronto house where he was left unchecked after being removed from the custody of his parents. In more

Noel Thorne    It’s an obvious pun when the subtitle here is Seeder, but Charles Soule’s first Swamp Thing book is such a scattershot of ideas and beginnings that it’s like he’s planting the seeds of larger storylines more

Dave Whittaker    We left the last article after establishing various conventions of the Creature and ended on the discussion of a crossover and crisis event. We begin this article with another company wide crossover and crisis event. To more

Stuart Warren    This Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time more

Stuart Warren    This Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time more

Dave Whittaker    They say never judge a book by its cover, and yet comic books in some sense urge us to do so. Comic book covers are in essence what hook many of us into purchasing a more

Colin Smith    Continued from last week. How was it possible for Millar to show so much respect for Bruce Wayne’s back story while portraying such a deeply unconvincing Dark Knight Though the writer’s take on Wayne was ludicrously more

Amy Maynard    Last year when Man of Steel came out, I was reminded of the line uttered by Chastity Gabrielle Union in Things I Hate About You: I know you can be overwhelmed... and you can more

Dave Whittaker    Frankenstein or, rather, Frankenstein’s creature : that oft studied literary figure, that icon of cinematic horror and, upon closer inspection that almost universal and perpetual figure in the comic art. Appearing in various titles from a more

Colin Smith    Continued from last week. The suspicion that Millar idled his way through his years at AD is at least in part countered by the contents of Favourite Things. For it seems unlikely that he would have more

Colin Smith    Continued from last week. Favourite Things was the first mainstream superhero tale that Millar had ever sold. Previously, he’d depicted the costumed crimefighter as a horror hybridised symbol of corruption and cruelty, as with The Saviour and more

Colin Smith    Continued from here. Exactly when Grant Morrison landed Mark Millar the job of scripting Swamp Thing is hard to pinpoint. Millar has hinted that the GLASCAC comic convention in the late April of may have more

Dave Whittaker    With last month’s zero issue restoring my and no doubt many other people’s faith in the Harley Quinn character, as presented in DC’s new continuity, this month’s issue was eagerly anticipated. And it more

Colin Smith    Well, why doesn’t the Batman simply kill the Joker You’d think the answer would be obvious. Yet fans the blogosphere over appear quite flummoxed, if not dangerously apoplectic, about the matter. The Joker can’t be more

Tom Shapira    One of the good things to come of Marvel Comics frankly insane shipping schedule in their latest relaunch scheme is that it allows the poor sideline commenter the chance to quickly appreciate the general trend more

William Proctor    According to Cody Walker, reboots and relaunches have been a part of comics for decades now i : From Julius Schwartz’s revisionist techniques that birthed the Silver Age in DC Comics Barry Allen as the second more

Julian Darius    Published in late as a three issue monthly crossover mini series, the central premise of Invasion titled Invasion , with an exclamation mark, on the cover was simple: aliens invade the Earth. The series was plotted by Keith more

Julian Darius    This is the beginning of a series of articles on classic works of the DC Universe. It is the contention of this series that the DC Universe has been around long enough and has produced more