Oh, Mask. The things you say sometimes, honestly! Well it’s finally happening. Norman is really starting to come unhinged. Just like every single hero in the Marvel Universe has hinted/suggested/screamed for the last year or so. It’s just a matter of time blah blah blah. Here in a quite moment Norman seeks council from his oldest and most trusted advocate, The Green Goblin. Click the creepiness for more.
Right near the sunset of all the terrible trends of 90′s comics The Magdalena was published. Put out by Top Cow comics the guys behind the T&A holy trinity. Witchblade, Lara Croft, and then The Magdalena. In this three part series Sister Rosalia here faces off against the Vampiri. All this nearly a decade before Twilight, Tru Blood, and the Diaries made fangs super-fashionable. But when Rosy discovers that Vamps ain’t that bad she defends her new blood-sucking friends from Inquisitor special ops. Click the swordplay for more about the holy hotness…
What does Luke Cage look like?!?! Ok, that was my first and last Pulp Fiction reference. Promise. In the land of the Marvel U there are three Avengers teams. By all accounts the new avengers are probably ranked three of three. But when it’s clubhouse leader Luke Cage gets captured by Mister Norman Osborne the call goes out for a rescue team. Look who answers. Click the lineup for more…
Daredevil: Yellow is technically an origin story. For those who might not know, when Matt Murdock was first starting out as costumed vigilante he wore an outfit that was mostly yellow. And no, it was not because he was blind. He made his first costume out of his dead father’s old boxing robe. Click the posedown for more…
What happens to a grizzled, New York City vigilante like the Punisher when he gets hacked to pieces and thrown into the sewer? FrankenCastle happens. You and me? We die. Frank Castle? He gets resurrected by Morbius the living vampire down in the old Morlock tunnels beneath Manhattan. Some things just ain’t fair. Click the lumbering for more…
Where to begin with Blankets? This critically-acclaimed, whopping, volume of a coffee table book has been on every best-of list since it was published back in 2003. And now it is here in Panel of the Week’s revered Longbox column. I could go on and on about how writer/artist Craig Thompson crafts the kind of [...]
How big is the friggin Bat-Universe right now? There feels like 7 or 8 Robins running around. And now the Bat-Females are multiplying with each new crossover. The latest Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, is featured here, hear her roar evil-doers! Click the posing for more…
When Roland the Gunslinger was a boy of only 14 he was sent on his first mission. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born is the story of Roland Deschain before the events of the seven Dark Tower novels by Stephen King. If you never read the novels you won’t understand the comic. Hell, even if you did read the novels this series doesn’t make much sense. Click the gunplay for more…
Gotta look close at this one. That is not a glimmer of hope in Cap’s eye. Those are Red Skulls. As in THE Red Skull. As in that vermillion visaged villain (hey, it is the fifth of November) has taken control of Cap’s newly reincarnated body! Click those demon peepers for more…
As an artist I suppose it can be hard to draw boring, everyday, rank and file Nazi storm troopers. So why not mix it up a little and throw some steam punk in to that sauce? Yes! Sprinkle some pipes here and some gauges there, now THAT is German engineering. Oh and ninjas. Click the drive-by for Nazi ninjas…
