evan dorkin
From the Archives- Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights
Have you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?
gerard way
Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá Expand the Family Tree in The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1
The Umbrella Academy has been a family story from the start, using the language of superheroes to explore family dynamics.
gerard way
Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens
Gerard Way and Shawn Simon doing their obscure Vertigo book, just for Dark Horse. So who better to get to draw than Chris Weston?
Paul Chadwick
Taking the Plunge into Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: Depth
The story of a man whose brain has been put into an alien body is the stuff of B-level science fiction, the b/w movies that we used to be able to watch on Saturday afternoons. And there’s plenty of that in Concrete: Depth but it’s not the only type of story that Paul Chadwick wants to tell.
richard corben
When Richard Corben met Hellboy
The humanity of Richard Corben’s Hellboy work is that it doesn’t try to spare the reader of anything.
Matt Wagner
The Devil Redux in Matt Wagner's Grendel Devil By The Deed Master’s Edition
Just because you can return to the original story doesn’t mean that you have to.
matt kindt
The Spy Who Could Be You (But Hopefully Isn't)— Matt Kindt’s Spy Superb
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.
Screenshot Reviews
#screenshot reviews- Batman #125 & Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: Old Man Whittier
Check out our capsule reviews of Hellboy and the BPRD: Old Man Whitter, and Batman #125, Chip Zdarsky's first issue.
Matt Wagner
Catching Up With the Devil in Grendel Devil’s Odyssey by Matt Wagner
As Wagner writes this story of Grendel encountering these worlds and civilizations to determine if they fall in the parameters of his mission, there’s an unspoken question of his own place in this future that he’s trying to ensure. Is he a real boy?
Mike Mignola
From The Archives- Hellboy: The Midnight Circus by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo
Hellboy: The Midnight Circus feels like a proper Halloween story, one told late at night around a blazing campfire. Mignola, Fegredo, and Stewart keep building up the mystery of the circus as well as the creepiness of it.
Rick Remender
From the Archives- Fear Agent Omnibus Volume 1 by Rick Remender, Tony Moore, and Jerome Opeña
Fear Agent starts out of an old Wally Wood-inspired science fiction story but Remender, Moore and Opeña tell a story about the failures of one man. Space just happens to be the setting of it.
Paul Chadwick
From the Archives- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1 (2004)
This piece was originally published at Mediasharx, the first or second site that I ever wrote for. If I remember correctly, Mediasharx was a spinoff of Zentertainment, one of the first popular entertainment news websites. I think I may have started at the last month of Zentertainment before that site