EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 8/27/03 -- TO THE STARS BY HARD WAYS

To the Stars By Hard Ways

Since I spent a column a few weeks ago discussing the current expansive crop of fantasy comics, it seemed inevitable that I would be deluged my mountains of e-mail from the fans of science fiction, demanding that I devote equal time to the genre they love and ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 7/30/03 -- DOWN FROM THE SHELF

Down from the shelf

Last week we talked about comics that no longer have their once-prized position in my pull folder every month. Books that must now suffer the scorn and humiliation of no longer being read by me. If that’s not enough to bring Uncanny X-Men to its knees, nothing is.

However, ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 7/2/03 -- THE GENDER GAP

The Gender Gap

Welcome back, gang, it’s time for our fourth and final installment in the Everything But Imaginary Special Series about ways the comic book industry seems determined to keep shooting itself in the foot one toe at a time. We’ve covered comic book shops. We’ve covered story format. We’ ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 5/14/03

Born in a wagon in a ‘Traveler’ show

I’ve been intensely curious about CrossGen Comics’s new “Traveler” format ever since they first announced it. A smaller, less expensive graphic novel, only slightly bigger than a mass market paperback, that they promised would suffer no degradation to the artwork or lettering in ( Read more... )