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Superhero or Supervillain? Technology's Role Changes Comic Books
Comic books have been around since the 1930s, each story taking shape as it moves from its writer to its artists (usually a penciler and an inker) and then to its letterer and colorist.
A Comic Store Where the Children Create
NEW YORK — Most comic book stores would frown upon their customers sitting on their floor and reading, but Loot is not like other shops. Here its young clientele — who would not qualify for most amusement park rides — was intently reading comics, discussing them or hard at work making their own.
'Tired of Running': A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story
If anything sums up J. Michael Straczynski’s memoir, it is “Doesn’t matter, get up, keep fighting,” a mantra that appears seven times in the epilogue.The Future Is Female in New 'Walking Dead' Series
Fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” will be meeting a new group of survivors next year in a new spinoff that will center on two young women.A Samurai Rabbit Comic Book Adventure Finds a New Home
The cartoonist Stan Sakai and his 17th-century samurai rabbit, Usagi Yojimbo, are about to embark on new, colorful adventures, with a monthly series starting in June with a new publisher, IDW.Life Under an Expanding Umbrella
The adopted siblings of “The Umbrella Academy,” which debuted Friday on Netflix, are not your typical superheroes.
Seven Super Comics for This Season and the Next
A new batch of graphic novels and comic books lands in this season of celebrations, with nods to holidays past and those to come. Crack open these comics — including some classics that are always nice to come back to — and enjoy.Standard-Issue Spidey and His Many Iterations
The new animated movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” introduces men and women who have taken on the mantle of the arachnid and the credo “with great power there must also come — great responsibility!” Given how successful “Spider-Verse” is already — a Golden Globe nomination for best animated picture, unbridled enthusiasm on Rotten Tomatoes, a new appreciation of Spider-Ham — plans for turning it into a franchise were inevitable. Luckily, comic books have featured more than 100 Spideys ...
A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up
A new comics publisher, TKO Studios, burst onto Twitter last week with an unusual mission statement: “We’ll be doing things a bit differently.”Garfield art heads to auction
A series of auctions that will feature artwork from the Garfield comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978 will provide some answers.
Marvel's heroes take center stage
“Hammered: A Thor & Loki Play,” by Christian Borle, depicts the squabbling brothers — the Norse gods of thunder and mischief — competing to impress their parents.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Superhero? This comic book thinks so
Is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York the biggest comic book character of 2019? Her story has all the twists of a comic book origin: She’s a former bartender and activist turned congresswoman; she’s a confident public speaker and a social-media whiz (where she once quoted from the “Watchmen” graphic novel); and she’s a champion for progressive issues and the environment.
22 movies? This marvel universe has 1,000 chapters
Marvel Comics turns 80 in August. To celebrate, the company is releasing Marvel Comics No. 1000, which follows its heroes from Day 1 in 1939, long before they became the global entertainment phenomenon they are today.
Did 'Avengers: Endgame' leave you wanting more? Try these Marvel tales
Experiencing Avengers withdrawal in the wake of “Endgame”? Then consider classic comic-book stories featuring Marvel’s mightiest heroes. These tales — from the team’s earliest days to more recent times — are chock-full of superheroes and adversaries that you may not yet know. Avengers epics assemble!
A comic book publisher creates its own origin story
American Ronin, about highly trained corporate operatives; Fight Girls, about warriors vying to be queen of the galaxy; and Bad Mother, about a parent searching for her missing daughter: These are some of the stories that are coming from a new comics publisher, Artists, Writers & Artisans, one that is posing the question, what stories could we develop if we begin with a blank slate?
Comic book focusing on Jesus finds a new publisher
Russell said his inspiration for Second Coming was to tell a story about power, in particular about how society “has fetishized physical violence and force as being the solution to every problem.”
It has certainly been an age of Marvels
In 1939, Billy Batson, an orphaned newspaper boy, turned into the Fawcett Comics hero Captain Marvel with one magic word — Shazam!
Gerard way on 'The Umbrella Academy,' my chemical romance
and Liza Minnelli
They have offbeat superpowers — the Rumor can cause things to happen just by saying them aloud — and they were raised by an emotionally distant father, an android mother and a kind, talking chimpanzee.
Buffy the vampire slayer returns to high school in new comic books
There was also a take by Dark Horse, which published comics from 2007 to 2018 that envisioned what Seasons 8 through 12 would have been like if the show had continued.
Apollo Theater is celebrated in a new graphic novel
Fox said he reworked his Apollo history into a focused narrative told in three acts, beginning years before the first performance at the theater.
