Bill Mantlo
From the Archives: The Micronauts #1-12 by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden
As Akira Kurosawa is to Star Wars, George Lucas is to The Micronauts, Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden’s 1979 comic series that was based on a toy line.
Paco Roca
In Paco Roca’s new book, each generation just wants to see their mothers smile.
Does this difference in price and presentation align with a hierarchy of comics?
Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont’s X-Men were rarely about the costumes or their super-heroics
Take a trip through time in Richard McGuire's Here.
20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
Alec Robbins really loves Betty Boop. That’s probably the most straightforward fact about Robbin’s Mr. Boop. From there, Robbins and his book just get… weird. Here’s the premise of this book: Betty Boop is the cartoon character and Alec is married to her. Alec thinking “My wife
What I love about the beginning of Far Sector is that it starts en media res. Here’s a brand new Lantern on a brand new planet. It’s fresh, but you have to bring a certain schema to it. You kind of need to bring certain things to it.
Comic book review and discussion
It’s weirdly prophetic to read 20th Century Boys in 2024, looking back on the last decade and wondering how we missed Urasawa’s possible warning of all of this.
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
James, Mike and Scott take a look at our favorite comics of 2023.
Just because you can return to the original story doesn’t mean that you have to.
Madelyne Pryor died in Inferno so that Jean Grey could live (and die and live again.)
There are the Parkers of the world and then there's the rest of us who live in their shadows.
A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.
This issue functions not as a reimagining of the Transformers story but as a reestablishing of it.
How can you have compassion for other people when you have none for yourself?
Seymour seems to be searching for something but if you asked him, I don’t know if he would be able to articulate what it is.
Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
Matt Kindt hides what may be the greatest Spy Superb in plain site of everyone— someone who is so bad at everything that he may actually be good at being a spy.