jonathan hickman
With Great Power, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda... thoughts on Jonathan Hickman and Macro Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1.
It’s the small changes that say the most about Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man.
Marvel Comics
jonathan hickman
Sidestepping the Event to Tell the Story in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.
Hickman and Schiti pull away from telling the huge story that we expect and find another way to tell a character-driven story between the context of those loud battles.
Neil Gaiman
Gaiman and Buckingham write the new gospel of Miracleman in The Silver Age
You’ve got to wonder what Miracleman: The Silver Age would have read like if it had come out in the 1990s instead of the 2020s.
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.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- July/August 2023
Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
tradd moore
Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore
Tradd Moore has synthesized the vocabulary of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with Mike Mignola and Jim Woodring’s sense of time, space, and movement..
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- May/June 2023
Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- March/April 2023
This period around 1982/1983 marked a shift in the X-Men characters themselves, turning them from superheroes into characters who are often wrestling with themselves as much as they are the bad guys.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- February 2023
Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.
tradd moore
"Go home, traveler"- thoughts on Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 (and maybe a few words on Ronin Book II #1)
Tradd Moore’s artwork is strange and fantastic, inspired by pop art as much as it is by comics. He’s telling a story about magic and his art is imbued with a different kind of magic.
Neil Gaiman
An Introduction To the World in Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1
Young Miracleman wasn’t resurrected because of who or what he was but because one old man with too much power felt alone and rudderless in the world that he has made.
Neil Gaiman
From the Archive- Miracleman: The Golden Age
Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham reveal this post-superhero world through the stories and lives of normal but unsettled men and women.