About 6 years ago, give or take, I found my way back into comics again, for the first time since the mid-80s, which was the last time I stopped collecting. I never fell out of love with them, but the direction the writing and art took in the late 80s and through the 90s didn’t [...]

Braved the opening night crowds in a college town and a 45-minute wait in a huge line, something I normally avoid since I loathe crowds of humans. However, they turned out to be mostly comics geeks, so it was fine – they were rambunctious in the right [...]

Swung into my local nerd shop today and picked up some candy. What was in my bin waiting for me? 4 titles, all of which have art that I think is great. (Shouldn’t it always be that way? A different post perhaps.)

Pete Woods, Mike Deodato, Ed Benes, and Renato [...]

Thor is back. And it’s about goddamn time.

A bunch of years ago, Marvel killed Thor off at a time when I wasn’t reading him, but I grew up on the Lee/Kirby, and later Wein/ Buscema, and much later Simonson stories of my favorite superhero. I stopped reading comics [...]

…and it’s about goddamn time.

No, I wasn’t paying attention when they killed him off and I basically missed everything that happened since Simonson’s epic run from #337-#354. But I’ve got the 20+ years leading up to that just about complete. Grew up reading him, and one of my life’s ambitions is to write and illustrate [...]

Comic books have never gotten any respect in the world outside comics books and comic book readers. Even as kids, reading comics was like hanging a sign saying “steal my lunch money and spit in my milk” around your neck. And if you’re an adult who still takes the [...]

Not to get all PC on you or anything – I enjoy the anatomical exaggeration of comics as much as anybody – but Marvel and DC are both getting some steam over a couple of recent collector’s statues, and not undeservedly so.

Look: cheesecake is fine when it’s not being [...]

So the book I referenced yesterday was Terry Dodson and D. P. Filippi's Songes, released recently and so far only available in France. I spent the $35 or so it took to order it from amazon.fr, and to me it's worth every penny.

Bandes desinées are loved throughout Europe, and [...]