Jon Del Arroz

Valiant Comics’ resurgence was quite an amazing success story. Former CEO Dinesh Shamdasani really lined up some of the best talent available to recreate the characters from the short-lived 1992 Jim Shooter experiment of Valiant, a company that also had a very promising beginning, and was bought by Acclaim for video game production, soon tanking […]

What a crazy week again. It seems these old white women in science fiction will stop at nothing to make sure they have a monolithic undiverse environment as I’ve been targeted and harassed by a bay area convention again. Here’s the email they sent: The unfortunate part is that these groups are wising up to […]

Talking to Tom was incredible. He’s by far my favorite comic writer because his work ethic is unsurpassed, plus he’s got that pulp-style aesthetic to his books which couples positive heroism with the great soap opera drama that Stan Lee brought to his audience and changed the comic landscape forever. If anything, the takeaway is […]

Disney just announced yesterday that Bob Iger is no longer going to be CEO in a carefully worded statement. Their stocks fell pretty hard after the announcement. This fresh off the heels of Dan DiDio’s removal as Co-Publisher at AT&T-owned DC Comics. The latter was easy to see coming, as DC desperately needs a shakeup […]