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Colbert: Comic Justice
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Putting Words In Captain America’s Mouth
In Marvel’s Civil War limited series, a major catastrophe split the hero community in half. One side, led by industrialist Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) fell in line with a government-sponsored superhuman registration act. The other side, led by WWII-veteran and super-patriot Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), resisted the movement on principle. In the end,…
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Lessons From Comics: “(Every)Thing Is Beautiful”
That’s right, Ben. Even when things are at their very worst, remember that you are truly a beautiful snowflake. Somewhere under that shifting mass of living orange concrete beats the heart of a man, and that man is more than the sum of his parts, even when those parts might be better measured in tons…
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Lessons From Comics: “Hostess Cupcakes > You”
(Today’s lesson has been respectfully borrowed from Bahlactus.) You might climb walls. You might have the exponential strength of an arachnid. You might even swing from rooftop-to-rooftop via ropes of webbing that issue forth from your wrists … but no amount of Spidey Sense is going to save you from being absolutely pwned by the…
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Lessons From Comics: “Let Silver Surfer Whine”
Thank God for Caller ID. Otherwise, you’d never be able to screen those phonecalls from Silver Surfer. Oh, he’s nice enough, what with the whole pleading our planet’s case to Galactus, thereby keeping the Devourer of Worlds from consuming Earth like some kind of planetary gumball. But the Surfer really, really needs to get his…
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Lessons From Comics: “Let Thor Drive”
One of these days, right around lunchtime, it’ll happen. You’ll be at work, finishing up the morning to-do list. From out of nowhere, the Norse God of Thunder will lean into your cubicle, winged helmet and all, and he’ll ask you something like: “What say you, mortal! Art thou thinking Arby’s?” As fate would have…
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Answer The Question
Vic Sage has a posse. The DC Comics solicits* for April 2007 are out. Included in this round is one of the last five covers of 52. The cover art by J. G. Jones has been excellent from issue #1, each one filled with visual homages to old monster movies, WPA posters, film noir cliches,…
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They’re Reading Our Story
Another thing. I’ve just learned that this week is National De-Lurking Week for 2007. I’m not sure who decides such things, but there you have it. If other people (here and here and here, just to name three) believe it, then it must be true. Besides, I celebrated the occasion last year. So if you’re…
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I Predicted The Past
The other day, I posted a comment over at Bahlactus about how I hoped the comic book industry would use 2007 to leverage more of the Internet to share insights into the creative process. Behind-the-scenes features have always held a definite fascination to me, no matter what the genre. Specifically, I said something about how…
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More Comic Book On-Ramps
Note: I promised more about The Question, didn’t I? That’s coming, but later. Promise. And this time, they’re all free. While I still think that anyone who loves a great story and good art should pick up the first issue of the Justice Society of America reboot, I understand that this is the holiday season…