Been a rough week for comic books.

I mentioned earlier about the whole Starfire controversy in which a seven-year-old explains what we want to see from female characters.

Then, yesterday, reviews for Frank Miller's Holy Terror started going live. Ouch. I'm sure I've talked about my disdain for this comic in the past, as far back as when it was going ( Read more... )

So I guess I missed this yesterday (dayjob is insane), but it's worth pointing it out to anyone else who might've missed it: fantasy author Michele Lee showed her 7-year-old daughter - a big fan of comic book superheroine Starfire - part of the new comic book Starfire was in. It's worth you checking out.

A lot of people are complaining in the ( Read more... )

Last month Daniel Abraham had a really thoughtful post on rebooting in general, and how it can help mythologize a character. And over the last few years, I feel like I'm more open to the possibility of rebooting stuff than I was, say, when Marvel's Ultimate line of comics came out. So I'm insanely curious about the whol DCU reboot. I doubt I'll ( Read more... )

Over at the PodCastle forums, we've been having an awesome discussion about Conan. It's put me in a reflective mood about Fantasy fiction and its roots, and the baggage that comes with that.

So when I read this piece about Frank Miller's new comic, I'm left wondering, man. WTF ever happened to Frank Miller? The guy who wrote one of the most ( Read more... )

Shucks, guys. I'm still trying to get to see Super 8 and X-Men: First Class, but watching this new Captain America trailer? Throwing the shield? JAW-DROPPING AWESOME. I gotta go check this out with my dad. When I was reading comics, I used to love talking to my dad about who Cap was and where he came from. (Cap was my dad's favorite superhero...)

I ( Read more... )

Does Batman need a Robin? I think the kneejerk reaction, and I include myself in this, is "NO!" He's a kid fighting homicidal maniacs that will attempt to kill, maim, rape, torture him. What kind of man would put a child in that position? And ZOMG, just look at that ridiculous costume.

So you have to give A Lonely Place of Dying credit for taking ( Read more... )

I remember where I was when I heard Robin died. In my parents' kitchen, looking over my mom's shoulder during breakfast as she pointed it out to me in the LA Times.

I wasn't reading comic books back then, but I knew who Batman and Robin were - had some cool read-along books-with-tapes featuring them, had seen the old TV show, and thought they were ( Read more... )

I've really been enjoying Bat-week over at Tor.com. It's made me want to rewatch the Burton and Nolan Batman movies (will skip the Schumacher ones), and dig through my comic book collection to find some stories I haven't read in ages. I was a little disappointed that this article, though fun, wasn't about Doug Moench's Batman/Dracula comic trilogy ( Read more... )

Not sure who he's avenging, but the look works very well for me!

I've been reading Captain America: Winter Soldier over the last week or so - about an issue/chapter during my coffee break. With all the things I'm hearing about this production (Bucky Barnes, Cosmic Cube, etc.) I'm really very curious how much of that storyline will work in to this ( Read more... )

So you might've heard about some upcoming comic book movie adaptations:

Batman 3: All the rampant rumors about who was going to play who in Nolan's Batman 3 were driving me nuts, so thank God they finally confirmed some casting. Intrigued by Tom Hardy as Bane. Kind of surprised Nolan's going the Catwoman route, TBH. Not exactly sure how Anne ( Read more... )