Tag: comics

Growing out of Comic Books

If you had the fortune of being a kid back when we still had a coherent society, and if you'd developed a taste for comic books, odds were that at least one adult in your life warned you against the habit. If the warning went unheeded, the common wisdom held…

April 2, 202418 Comments

Comics’ Death of a Thousand Cuts

Yesterday's post on the death of American comics elicited its fair share of comments. One reader who decided to offer his two cents ended up contributing gold when he turned out to be an industry veteran. Consider commercial sculptor William Paquet's insider account of the US comics industry's collapse: Heads…

February 8, 202412 Comments

Who Killed American Comics?

The recent post on who killed rock and roll attracted a lot of notice. It's taken a while to gain traction, but it seems like every day more people are noticing Cultural Ground Zero. As this theory's name implies, the destruction wasn't limited to popular music. Every form of mass…

February 7, 202414 Comments

Bayou Bomber Contra Sam Hyde

Many of this blog's readers will be aware of comedian Sam Hyde. He's spent his career straddling the line between the rightward edge of the Overton window and the mainstream. He's also something of a Jack of all trades, having crashed a TedX talk, had a now-cancelled show on Adult…

January 29, 20246 Comments

Neopatronage Ascendant

Big news broke in the indie comics world this week as the upcoming manga Amaranth Angels met its ambitious funding goal. The brainchild of Ascendant Fiction writer Yakov Merkin and artist Philip San Gaspar, this sci fi adventure features all you could ever want ... Cute girls in space. Watch…

October 20, 20234 Comments

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

I've been a fan of Guillermo del Toro's work since his first feature film, Cronos. He's a director with a singular vision, an unmatched mastery of the macabre, and a true artistic flair. So when I heard he was making a sequel to his 2004 hit Hellboy, I was thrilled.…

May 16, 20239 Comments

Hellboy

When it comes to adapting comic book properties for the silver screen, audiences have earned the right to be concerned. These days it’s not just a question of whether the movie can capture the comic’s essence. Even more challenging is creating a finished product that appeals to fans and general…

May 11, 20236 Comments

Blade Trinity

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April 26, 2023

Blade II

In our previous review, we discussed how the first Blade film bucked the late 90s trend of loud, bloated epics to revive 80s style action in the horror genre. The result was a fun if flawed gem that had the knock-on effect of bringing comic book movies back from the…

April 19, 20237 Comments

Blade

It's easy to forget now that comic book tie-ins are the only kind of movie Hollywood makes. But the genre was closer to Cultural Ground Zero than perhaps even sci fi in general. The summer of 1997 brought the fan and critic-panned disaster Batman and Robin. That movie was such…

April 14, 20238 Comments