Marvel’s Daredevil will end in November, apparently
Daredevil, the long-running Marvel series that in recent years earned critical acclaim in the hands of creators like Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark and Andy Diggle,...
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Spider-Man’s Ultimate Corpse
Sorry for the graphic title, Gentle Readers. I’m sure you get the idea: last week, Ultimate Spider-Man #160 gave us the final chapter in the long-awaited “Death of Spider-Man” storyline. That’s long...
View ArticleQuote of the day | The ‘veiled weirdness’ of reactions to Miles Morales
“It would have been nice if we were past certain places in people’s hearts about race. That kind of surprised me. There was a lot of veiled weirdness. What I could completely appreciate is, ‘I love...
View ArticleChain Reactions | Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1
Last Wednesday a first issue relaunched an entirely new take on a classic character, and it didn’t have a DC Comics logo. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, by Brian Michael Bendis, Sarah Pichelli and...
View ArticleMiles Morales to get his very own Marvel Minimate
His costume is already set to appear next month in the Spider-Man: Edge of Time video game, but Miles Morales will follow that with a Minimate of his very own. The new Ultimate Spider-Man will join...
View ArticleFood or Comics? | Brilliant, holy, super habibi
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money...
View ArticleThe Fifth Color | Defining Ultimate Comics
Have you ever seen a word so often that it starts to lose its meaning? Louis CK has a great bit on the word ‘hilarious’, go check the link (right about the 1:38 mark, NSFW language) and you’ll see...
View ArticleConversing on Comics with David Lafuente
Note: Due to some unforeseen transcription issues, the Steve Rude interview promised for this week won’t be published until next Friday. Spanish artist David Lafuente is one of those creators who...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Sergio Toppi dies; what makes Spider-Man special
Passings | Italian comics artist Sergio Toppi has died at the age of 79. Most of his work seems to have been in Italian and French, but Archaia has plans to publish an English-language edition of his...
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