It’s Free Comic Book Day, and readers around the world are lining up at comic shops for various marketing and promotional material coming from Marvel, DC Comics, and others. For the most part, it marks a great day for comic book stores and the comic industry, but this year there’s a sour note, as Flying […]
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Another Comic Shop Cosmic Comics Closes As the Comic Industry Spirals
It seems like a comic book store is closing every other week. The comic book industry has been in turmoil over the last year, as poor writing, lack of editorial vision, and identity politics have mired Marvel and DC Comics to a point where too many customers have checked out. Now, Cosmic Comics has announced […]
The Indie Comics Civil War Is Bad For Creators And Fans
The Comicsgate Civil War, or the Indie Comics Civil War, has been going on for a while between Ethan Van Sciver and Eric July/the Rippaverse. Many fans of both are concluding negativity was quickly overwhelming the optics of the situation, and no one was going to benefit in the long run. Cannibalizing each other’s fan […]
The Collectibles Market And Speculation Is The Biggest Problem With The Comic Industry
As an over 30-year veteran of the comic book industry, I’ve seen a lot of cycles. Lots of creators, trends, and comic books come and go. There has always been one thing that keeps comic books in America from rising to the levels that the medium has in Japan, France, and Italy. There is one […]
Tommy Reviews New Comic: Dynamite Comics ThunderCats Issue 1
Dynamite Entertainment just released on Wednesday, 7 February 2024 a most anticipated 1st issue, the thunderous return of the ThunderCats written by Delcan Shavley and artist Drew Moss. Dynamite acquired the rights to ThunderCats from DC Comics. The series was another big cartoon/toy juggernaut in the 80s next to Transformers, He-Man, and GI Joe. The […]
Alan Scott Green Lantern Writer Tim Sheridan Admits His DC Comics Book Is All About Pushing Homosexual Lifestyles
In the same interview where Tim Sheridan lambasted fans of Masters of the Universe over their dislike of the Kevin Smith series on Netflix and its push toward feminism, he called DC Comics fans who don’t like his Alan Scott Green Lantern “trolls”. It highlights the entitled attitude of mainstream comic pros even further, as […]
Mike Baron’s Florida Man 2: Florida Man vs. Hogzilla Has More Excitement than Riding a Greased Pig!
Mike Baron’s Florida Man vs Hogzilla is what one gets if every weird news media press release about a “Florida Man,” and an episode of a tabloid television talk-show episode starring trailer-park rednecks had a forbidden love child! The art of Matthew Weldon, the inking of Marcello Salaza, and the lettering of Carlos Mangual help […]
Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly Take Shots At DC Comics For Only Having Batman Stories In New Outsiders Book
DC Comics has a massive elephant in the room: no one cares about any of their characters other than Batman. This scenario occurred for numerous reasons, but it’s gotten so bad their writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly took shots at the company in their comic, The Outsiders #3, ironically, a comic that originally spun […]
Zatanna Screenwriter Emerald Fennell Confirms Project Is “Not Happening” For DCEU Regime Switch
With Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, the DCEU (DC Extended Universe) comes to an end this week. DC Studios are rebooting it as the DCEU with co-CEO filmmakers James Gunn and Peter Safran. It was previously reported that Fennell was developing a “Zatanna” film for the DCEU, a magical character who fits into what many […]
Treating “Official” Fan Fiction From The Comic Industry Like It’s Fan Fiction
The X-Men are being reappropriated. Miles Morales has all but replaced Spider-Man. Modern books in the comic industry are mostly glorified fan fiction. Learn how to treat them that way. No matter how much officially sanctioned garbage gets dumped on a tried-and-true franchise, some core stories are so good that no amount of corporate-approved dog-piling […]
The Problem with the Comics Industry is YOU, Comic Book Nerds
I checked the headlines this week and found out that the sky is falling in the world of the comic industry these days. There is a lot of debate about what the root cause of all this is and what to be done about it, but after picking up a copy of Weird Western Tales […]
Heavy Metal December 1977: When We Had Bande Dessinée at Home!
A long time ago, I came back from a month as an exchange student on the French Riviera bearing gifts. Sure, I was loaded down with postcards of topless women. And one lucky son of a gun received a French translation of the FASA BattleTech Black Widows supplement. But the stuff that really blew our […]
