A Masterpiece worth Reading: The Dark Knight Returns
When I started the relaunch of Comic POW! while taking Christy Blanch’s gender dynamics-based comics MOOC, part of the premise was that comics are a product of the times in…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with Jamie Portillo
For my final interview of the convention, I spoke with Jamie Portillo who wrote Hell Paso. He has a passion for history that he’s converted into a series of historical…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with Josh Blylock
Intrigued by Mercy Sparx, I decided to speak with Josh Blylock of Devil’s Due Entertainment. (Which has just merged with 1st Look) The books turned out to be deeper and…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with Josh Shockley
I was told that I had to go talk to the guys at PLB Comics. Turns out they’re a local publisher putting out neat, pulp comics. There’s a lot more…
The Puppetmaster: Fables Volumes 5 and 6
Volume 5 is all over the place, but it does seem to continue to follow Willingham’s trend of providing some thematic respite after a heavy plot. So this volume starts…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with Arizona Power Girl
Back in 2012 when I was writing for Player Affinity (now called Entertainment Fuse), I had the opportunity to speak with Cara Nicole aka Arizona Powergirl. This year she came…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Comics as Cultural Mirrors
Really, the only bad thing about this panel was that it could easily be a semester at college. So it felt a bit compressed for a one hour panel.
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: A Talk with James Tynion IV
After the Boom! Studios panel I started thinking again about gender and sexual fluidity in comics. Long-time readers will remember I recently wondered about this in the Sunstone article. As…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Scott Snyder Panel
The biggest takeaway I got from Scott Snyder’s panel at Baltimore Comic-Con was that Scott has a thesis for each story arc he does on Batman. Each is him exploring…
Baltimore Comic-Con 2015 Cosplay Extravaganza!
This year’s show was, like any other, a mixture of the usual characters in their usual costumes, the usual characters in unique permutations, and characters rarely seen at Baltimore Comic-Con.…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with Robert Kendzie
Sword and Sorcery are back! With Robert Kendzie at the helm, you’re in for a romping good time. As you hear during our interview, he’s got a fun little twist…
Baltimore Comic-Con Day 3: Interview with George Wassil
Sometimes there’s a story inside someone that just has to get out, one way or another. That’s what happened with George Wassil and Oh, Hell, his independently published graphic novel.…