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Marvel Announces Comics For Girls By Girls

Officially ignoring recent allegations of sexism, Marvel Comics is nonetheless making 2010 their Year of Women with new Marvel Women branding and — announced today — a special series untouched by male hands, called Girl Comics. Yay? https://gizmodo.com/marvel-boss-were-not-sexist-just-loud-5239963 https://gizmodo.com/revealed-marvel-comics-secret-war-on-women-5419369 We’re torn about Girl Comics; on the one hand, a series written, drawn, lettered, colored, edited…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

This Week’s Comics Filled By Art Books, Angel And New Superheroes

Worried about the skip week of comic shipments? It’s time to start stocking up on collections to tide you over, and this week’s new releases are perfectly ready to help you do just that very thing. For Whedonites, there’s a simple choice of Single Issue Of The Week, and that’s Angel: A Hole In The…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Robots In Despair In Bumblebee’s Solo Transformers Comic

Heavy is the robotic head that wears the crown, in the first issue of IDW’s new Transformers: Bumblebee comic. If you’re wondering just whose head that is, well, consider this a spoiler warning before you check out our exclusive preview. Spinning out of IDW’s new Transformers monthly, the new series sees the littlest Autobot in…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Marvel and Disney Characters Attempt Corporate Synergy

We’ve seen tons of Marvel/Disney mashups this year, but webcomics writer T Campbell and his Rip and Teri collaborator John Waltrip have taken the idea a step further, showing both companies’ characters exploring their new relationship. [via Boing Boing]

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Watch Nic Cage Dress Like Batman, Shoot A Child

There’s a brand new Kick-Ass clip out and well… it really does kick ass. I think Nic Cage has finally found his calling as a creepy flesh-mustached father who pumps bullets into his daughter’s chest. Plus see his superhero uniform! Click to view Click on the pic to see the full get-up over at UGO.…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Marvel: The First Hit Is Free (Or $1, At Most)

A fan of the Iron Man movie and wondering where to start with the comics? Marvel has come up with a low cost way of introducing new readers to their books with the Marvel’s Greatest Comics imprint. Launching next March with a reprint of 2008’s Invincible Iron Man #1, Marvel’s Greatest Comics will reprint first…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Who Is The Best New Character Of The Decade?

Never mind the best books, comics, movies or TV shows of the last ten years, which new character made the biggest impact in your hearts and minds? We want to know what you think, and I have my own suggestions… In this era of franchises based on pre-existing… well, franchises, really, it should be tough…

Movies Graeme McMillan

10 Of The Decade’s Best SF Comics

It’s been the decade where comic culture took over pop culture, and superheroes became movie stars. But what are some of our picks for the best comics from the last ten years? We’re glad you – okay, we – asked. If it’s the end of a decade, then it’s time for multiple Best Of The…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Y: The Last Man

In a decade full of longform series with a high concept mystery at their core (See also the recommended Wasteland and Resurrection, as well as Vaughan’s own Ex Machina), Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra‘s Y: The Last Man stood out, in part because of the boldness of its high concept (What if all the…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

We3

There’re so many reasons why We3 shouldn’t have worked. A story with three cyborg animals as its main characters, going on an Incredible Journey-style adventure to escape captivity? It sounds almost laughable. But that’s reckoning without the heart that Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely brought to the execution, as well as just the sheer style…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Scott Pilgrim

To those who say Scott Pilgrim isn’t science fiction, we say: Robotic arms, power-ups, subspace doorways and seriously, just stop talking already. Bryan Lee O’Malley‘s series about someone fighting (seven evil ex-boyfriends) for true love and the growing up that brings with it has proven itself to be an admittedly-frenetic, contradictory mix of fun and…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Pluto

One of our 5 Comics You’re Not Reading But Should Be, Pluto stands out as a perfect example of how to reboot and resurrect old franchises in a decade full of attempts. But even those unfamiliar with the original Astro Boy will find themselves drawn into Naoki Urasawa‘s robot murder mystery. Unconcerned with repeating former…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Planetes

Imagine the working class cynicism of Ridley Scott’s Alien mixed with the grace and understated realism and existential angst of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and you’re close to imagining Makoto Yukimura‘s masterful Planetes. Following the crew of the Toybox, a ship floating in space to ensure a lack of damage to satellites and…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Laika

We’ll admit it; we’re suckers for a good dog story. Old Yeller gets us everytime, and we’ll at least consider Turner and Hooch everytime it’s on television. Okay, maybe not that last one. But Nick Abadzis‘ Laika would impress even if we hated all animals and had hearts of stone. A fictionalized biography of the…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Casanova

Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon‘s dimension-jumping, incestuous spy-fi series was a weird one: Self-conscious, self-referential and often self-mocking, there was nonetheless something about it than nonetheless worked and seemed curiously, wonderfully refreshing at a time when mainstream comics were more interested in gong through the motions and maintaining their own status quo. Equal…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Black Hole

If there was a better sci-fi/horror as metaphor for the human condition story than Charles Burns‘ Black Hole in the last decade, then we’d like to see it. Part AIDS-metaphor, part allegory for adolescent paranoia and leaving childhood things behind, it also works on a more straight-forward, “Subtext? What subtext?” level, which is where it…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

All Star Superman

The first of two appearances for the creative team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely on the list (If we hadn’t stopped ourselves from adding New X-Men, The Filthand the final issues of The Invisibles, Morrison would’ve ended up dominating the list – Suffice to say, he’s had a pretty good decade), All Star Superman…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

100%

We’ve written a lot about Paul Pope‘s urban sprawl fiction, but with good reason: Not only is it touching, sexy and honest in its portrayal of life in a future metropolis, it’s also one of the more beautiful science fiction comics we’ve seen. That’s beautiful in both writing – 100% is as gentle and kind…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Victor Von Doom’s Christmas Message

Not content with crying at Ground Zero, Latveria’s most famous tin-plated tyrant continues to show his softer side by allowing his Christmas Letter to subjects to be made public, letting everyone see the man behind the Reed-Richards-Hating mask. Awwww. Just like all the best Christmas letters, Doom’s – transcribed by loyal subject, creator of the…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Robots, Streetwear, and Gay Skeletor: An Interview with Mishka NYC

Under Brooklyn’s elevated JMZ subway sits a curious clothing label. On one hand, their apparel often appears in rap videos. On the other, they’ve released a t-shirt featuring He-Man in S&M gear. Welcome to the wonderfully warped world of Mishka. Since the mid-2000s, Mishka NYC has been at the vanguard of popular streetwear. A cornerstone…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Marvel Announces Comics For Girls By Girls

This Week’s Comics Filled By Art Books, Angel And New Superheroes

Robots In Despair In Bumblebee’s Solo Transformers Comic

Marvel and Disney Characters Attempt Corporate Synergy

Watch Nic Cage Dress Like Batman, Shoot A Child

Marvel: The First Hit Is Free (Or $1, At Most)

Who Is The Best New Character Of The Decade?

10 Of The Decade’s Best SF Comics

Y: The Last Man

We3

Scott Pilgrim

Pluto

Planetes

Laika

Casanova

Black Hole

All Star Superman

100%

Victor Von Doom’s Christmas Message

Robots, Streetwear, and Gay Skeletor: An Interview with Mishka NYC

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