Holy Double Entendre Batman!: Week 1
Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman…
Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 13
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…
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Pow #1: Amazing Fantasy #15
Welcome to a new video feature appearing Mondays in which we take a look at Spider-Man starting from the very beginning. Images used in the video: If the above video…
Sex Criminals Vol 2: The Honeymoon’s Over
Reading Sex Criminals Vol 1, one almost feels like Fraction and Zdarsky never expected to be able to get away with this comic. It’s almost even neatly wrapped up by…
Who is The Green Hornet? Part 3: Kevin Smith vs Mark Waid
Back in January I wrote about Kevin Smith’s take on The Green Hornet. In February I wrote about Mark Waid’s first two Green Hornet volumes. Although it’s not unheard of…
Genius: Inevitable Future?
When I was doing my undergraduate degree, we were just getting cell phones that could take sub-megapixel images. There was no video in most phones, and those that did shot…
Consequences of DC’s Convergence: When Dan Didio read my mind
A few weeks ago as I was doing laps in the pool, my brain started wandering to comics and how I’d been so frustrated with DC Comics’ New 52 as…
Fables: They did it First
Here at Comic POW! because we’re not obsessed with reviews and are, instead, looking at greater themes within the works, we’re able to revisit older stories along with the newer…
Image Comics Nominated For Lots of Eisners
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Image Comics. So I was elated to hear they’d received lots of Eisner nominations. In fact, in many categories, there are…
Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness (in color!)
I read Scott Pilgrim in its original manga-sized, black and white form when it first came out. With the final volume of the color version coming out this year, I…
Understanding Japanese Culture, Humor, and Gender Through Love Hina Part 12
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…
Hinges Book 1
Although Hinges began as a web comic, I was not familiar with the story prior to reading this book. What attracted me to this book was the interesting cover and…