Tag: comic books
Shopping for something unconventional this Black Friday? In an interesting coincidence, several crowdfunding campaigns to revive / reprint well-known comic books launched within the same month, and they're all competing for Kickstarter dollars at the same time.
If you recall...
For the past two years Dynamite Entertainment has been reviving Darkwing Duck with a new comic book series and assorted spinoffs. If you're been "waiting for the trades" on this one, now's the time: a crowdfunding campaign just launched...
Archie Comics is now 85 years old, and for the past decade they've been blazing a different path than they did for the other 75, targeting a more adult audience with sophisticated dialogue and and realistically proportioned characters. This...
Free Comic Book Day is now mere hours away. I'm aware someone else already reported on it, but I figure this site could use a more extensive catalog of what you can find tomorrow (or today, depending on when...
Comic book writers tend to think of superhero comics as a soap opera, for better or worse (but mostly for worse). Since the stories can never actually end, they frequently resort to gimmicks like deaths, resurrections, crossovers, breakups and...
This winter, two of The Disney Afternoon's finest are returning with all-new stories. Gargoyles is being revived by Dynamite Comics (with Greg Weisman himself as writer) and Darkwing Duck is coming back courtesy of the same organization. We broke...
Two of Disney's most popular TV creations from the 90s are returning, though in a different form than you might expect. Publishing company Dynamite has announced a comic book continuation of Gargoyles is planned for the future. On the...
The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day, as in the day when all participating comics shops offer a ton of free samplers to entice people into reading more comics. How many you get depends on your...
Though DC and Marvel have been fierce rivals for most of their existences, there have been brief times when they agreed to lay down their arms and work together on something. The two most notable were Age of Amalgam,...
You may not know the name Diamond Comic Distributors, but your local comic shop owner sure does. You might have glanced the name on a cardboard box or two laying around the shop, but there's a reason you can't...