DRM-Free Stores Continue to Proliferate
In February Top Shelf Comics introduced its new DRM-free store. This makes it the second major comic publisher after Image Comics to introduce a DRM-free store. This is actually a…
Race Flipping in Comic Movies
The internet is abuzz about the recent news by 20th Century Fox to have Johnny Storm played by an African American actor in the next Fantastic Four movie. The featured…
Life in the Big City
Regular readers of Comic POW know I’m a huge fan of Brandon Graham. When I discover a new creator that I like, I tend to binge on their works. Fortunately…
Image Comics Wants All Your Money Part 2
Continuing from a few weeks ago, here are a slew of comics Image Comics will be releasing in 2014. Nameless All Image released was the above image and that it…
Disney Needs its Heroes back – For Walt Disney World
By now, dear reader, you are familiar with the argument that Disney needs to get its Marvel characters back from Sony Pictures and Fox. They’ve done a pretty great job…
Images Comics wants all your Money
While I was on vacation last week Image Comics announced a boatload of new series coming out soon. Here they are: The Fade Out I’m not a huge fan of…
A New Year, A New Theme
Hello readers of Comic POW! 2013 was a great year in which we were joined by two new, great writers. Tracey Mania and Kari Woodrow have really been knocking it…
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
The introduction to Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow says that Alan Moore had a once in a lifetime chance. We can chuckle at that from our vantage point…
What if Superman Were Real?
Superman has been the subject of countless papers and books exploring what is so compelling about this alien super hero. Interestingly, as comics have become more sophisticated, it’s become harder…
Rick Remender Has a New Image Series Out this November
I loved Rick Remender’s run on Uncanny X-Force and I enjoyed his run on Venom. He has a new series coming out 27 November that looks creepy and amazing! I…
The Private Eye: A Possible Future or A Definite Future?
The Private Eye, Brian K Vaughan’s indie comic book, is two things at once. It’s primarily a noir private investigator story – a broad who may not be all she…
Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 9
note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come across the…