Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Columns
Art of the Week (1/17 – 1/23)

By | Jan 24, 2011 | Columns

In this new post I’ll be throwing down every Monday, I’m going to be looking at the best art I’ve found online over the past week. The trick? It has to have been posted during that week, if not created during that week. This makes it a little more difficult, but also a lot more […]

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Longform
Multiversity 101: The Last Days of the CCA

By | Jan 23, 2011 | Longform

This past week was a bit of a watershed moment for comics…and I bet most readers didn’t notice or care and, frankly, I’m gonna go ahead and say thats a good thing (for once). Even without the graphic to the left, you’d probably recognize the familiar seal of the Comics Code Authority. It’s been prominent […]

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News
Archie Comics ALSO Kicks the Code

By | Jan 22, 2011 | News

Hot on the heels of DC’s similar announcement, industry mainstay Archie Comics has also announced that it will no longer seek the approval of the Comics Code Authority on its creative output. That makes two very big hits to the Code this week, leaving this reporter to wonder “if the most clean-cut, rule following comic […]

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Reviews
Review: DeadpoolMAX #4

By | Jan 22, 2011 | Reviews

Written by David LaphamIllustrated by Kyle Baker “NO CABLE NO FUTURE” For years, when Uncle Sam needed to erase untouchable global madmen, it called on the legendary super-agent known as Cable. That is, until two years ago, Cable disappeared for parts unknown…and a certain Merc with a Mouth took up the slack. But now Cable […]

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News
Captain America: The Fighting Avenger Now a One-Shot

By | Jan 22, 2011 | News

While this was indicated in Marvel’s April 2011 solicitations, we now have explicit confirmation that Marvel’s previously announced All Ages Captain America series, written by Multiversity favorite Brian Clevinger and Illustrated by Gurihiru, has now been downgraded all the way down PAST limited series to a One-Shot. For my money, this is one of the […]

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News
GINGERBREAD GIRL launches today on Top Shelf 2.0!

By | Jan 21, 2011 | News

Free comics are always a good thing, but free comics coming from Top Shelf Productions and the writer/artist team of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover? That’s a great thing. Today, Paul and Colleen’s upcoming graphic novel Gingerbread Girl had its first three pages released on Top Shelf 2.0 (Top Shelf’s webcomics site), and Top Shelf […]

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Columns
Friday Recommendation: Battle Pope

By | Jan 21, 2011 | Columns

This Friday Recommendation has been a long, LONG time coming as it has taken me tragically long to acquire and absorb the fourteen issues of madness that is Battle Pope. Conceived by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore long before The Walking Dead was even a glimmer in their collective mind’s eye, the book was originally […]

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Reviews
Review: Invincible Iron Man #500

By | Jan 21, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Matt FractionIllustrated by Salvador Larocca, Kano, Nathan Fox, Carmine Di Gandomenico GIANT-SIZED ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Three generations of Starks face their ultimate foe, seventy-some years in the future while, in the present, Spider-Man joins Iron Man as he tries to fill in the blanks of his missing memory. What if amnesia was a weapon? […]

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Reviews
Review: Northlanders #36

By | Jan 21, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Brian WoodIllustrated by Becky Cloonan Set in late-period Iceland during a period of intense clan warfare, an elderly fisherman investigates the death of a young girl found embedded in the ice. As the fisherman’s furtive actions catch the attention of the local warriors, blame for the crime shifts over to him. If this […]

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News
Poll: Who Wil Die In "3"?

By | Jan 21, 2011 | News

This is it. Next week, Jonathan Hickman will commit murder and change Marvel’s First Family forever. Someone is going to die, and (barring someone spoiling it for everyone like a jerk) we have no clue who it’s going to be! So who do you think it is? Is it the big brain out in space […]

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