The start of a new year is upon us. It’s a good time to look ahead of what 2010 might hold. Vaneta Rogers over at Newsarama put together a nice article the gathered quotes from editors and publishers from around the industry looking at their outlooks on the new year. I found this to be far more…
The Beat has a interesting look at various sales chart related things. It helped shed some light on something I have been wondering as well as helping to illustrate some of the differences in the costumers between comic shops and book shops. The part that shed some light for me are the numbers from Brian…
The fourth and final issue of the Beasts of Burden mini series came out this week. I thought it a good time to look at the title as a whole as Dark Horse plans to collect the mini series and the original shorts that first appeared their horror anthology series into one hardback sometime in 2010. I’m…
Duane Swierczynski Swierczynski answered some reader questions over at CBR mostly regarding Cable. Everything happening in Cable is leading into a X-book event called “Second Coming” in March which Swiercynski will write. Sadly it does not sound like he will writing more Cable after that, but it’s hard to say since he could only say…
I’m finding it interesting how fractured Marvel seems of late from a creative perspective. The negatives are more obvious especially with Siege bearing down on us, but there are some very clear positives within Marvel as well. You have to dig a bit but they are there. With that in mind I thought I would…
The Beat has a rather interesting article on the debate between periodicals, as in the monthlies, versus original graphical novels. It is in response to what Brian Hibbs wrote in a recent column. It is a curious debate as some think the monthly format is becoming obsolete. From my perspective I thought it was obvious that the…
In a effort to get away from the usual frustrations of mainstream Marvel and DC, I turned to Image once again. This week saw the release of the Olympus trade collecting the four issues mini series, and much like Chew the book did not disappoint. Olympus centers around brothers Castor and Pollux. They act as sort of…
The past week has been rather uninspiring for me. Last week’s releases made for one of those weeks where nothing was truly bad but nothing felt noteworthy. Most of the good were things like the latest issue of Walking Dead, which almost seems pointless to review because anyone who likes it is already reading and…
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post today compared President Obama’s Nobel Peace Price acceptance speech to a metaphor Klein had made early last year while at The American Prospect — “A Superman approach to foreign policy” — life ideally imitating art imitating life. Superman and Captain America were superheroes of an odd sort: tremendously powerful…