I have been a comic book fan since the early to mid-1980s (as documented in this post about Uncanny X-Men #201). I have also been a hip-hop fan since then, what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Hip-Hop, roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s (the exact dates…
I was and still am a big fan of physical copies of comic books. But I can’t afford to buy all the comic books I want to read. I have long used libraries to supply my comic book-reading habit (see my original praise of libraries and then discussing passing the…
Nowadays, instead of purchasing a lot of comic books, I read a lot of my comic books via the various libraries I have access to (see my post on borrowing more than 1000 collections and original graphic novels). Therefore, it was a significant shift when the pandemic closed the libraries…
My proper job, which pays for the niceties such as comic books and webhosting, has gotten the better of me lately, which has prevented me from posting regularly. This is a shame because I had been planning to discuss some of the newsletters by comic book creators that I’ve been…
I have to admit that I was never a big fan of digital comic books. I enjoy the tactile sensation of reading a physical copy, the ease with which you can flip back and forth through the story, and the collector’s buzz of owning something as part of a collection.…
The notion of separating the art from the artist has long plagued reviewers/critics/fans – this post is not attempting to answer that question; see plenty of essays and opinion pieces around the internet – but it seems that it is becoming even more acute lately. As a film fan, it…
When I wrote about the black comic book creators whose work I’ve enjoyed, it got me thinking about the other minority creators in the comic book industry: women. Nowadays, there are a lot of women working in various areas of comic books, such that some are now big names; however,…
It started as a bit of an in-joke with my partner: I would on occasion talk about various comic book topics; when I started on another a while later, the only thing she could remember was the year ‘1986’ and its role in comic book history, so whenever I mentioned…
When I reviewed The Old Guard film, I read some reviews to see what other people thought of the movie. What surprised me was seeing more than once the phrase ‘superhero movie’ to describe The Old Guard. WTF? How is The Old Guard a superhero movie? Did people come to…
Published by DK in 2016. I recently discussed two DK books chronicling the history of DC Comics and Marvel, which reminded me about another DK book I’d picked up for a few quid, so I thought I’d talk about it as well (the pandemic has provided plenty of time for…