Comic Books

While the coming of spring has sapped all remnants of cold in the air, there’s always room for comics set deep within the clutches of autumn leaves. The autumn leaves we’re looking at, however, are an extension of the town of Comfort Notch, nestled in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire. While New England has… Continue reading

Ultimate Comics was one of the best ideas that Marvel as a publisher has ever had. Creating stories with an iconic pantheon and unburdened by canon, the creators of the original series were free to update and reinterpret for an audience that didn’t want to wade through the canon-nightmares of the 90s. But that original… Continue reading

We all have our guilty pleasure shows and it’s almost always reality TV. There’s something about watching people we don’t know go through their daily tribulations to win prizes or, more often than not, notoriety, that draws us into their worlds. Even if it’s happening in our own city, the act of seeing it on… Continue reading

Regardless of if we want them or not, we have to send in the clowns. But then that would make us feel better, right? The descendants of jesters traipsing around and pulling long strings of hankies out of their mouths for shits and giggles. They’re supposed to be funny—we expect them to be funny. But… Continue reading

Cities are odd. Living on top of and around one another, makes things hectic. Even more so when these people are humans, elves, mermaids, satyrs, gaseous beings, and all other manner of creatures. Note that the setting of in Kelly Thompson, Meredith McClaren, and Becca Carey’s Black Cloak is the only remaining city on the planet after… Continue reading

Arkham Asylum, Ryker’s Island, Belle Reve, The Raft, all superhuman prisons designed the be relatively improbable to be broken out of—although, let’s be honest, their walls are typically make of colanders. It isn’t often, though, that someone tries to break into any of these prisons. And less often that someone breaks in with the express… Continue reading

Quite a bit ago, I took a look at Golden Rage, a comic that asked what would happen if society dumped all of the women they deemed no longer useful to the world on a small, remote island. What ended up happening was tribalism and a series of violent acts every time a new boat of… Continue reading

Often when vintage shopping, I find boxes of old photos and postcards that remind me of old photos my parents squirreled away in their armoire. I can recognize their faces in the yellowing pictures, but others I can’t quite place. My parents tell me names of great aunts and uncles, family friends, and the vacations… Continue reading