‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Alters How Superhero Stories Handle Death
[ad_1] There’s a line in a 1991 issue of Marvel’s X-Factor comic book series where Professor Xavier makes fun of the X-Men’s inability to remain dead: “Sometimes it seems that…
DC Has a Chance to Save Superman. Here’s What It Needs to Do
[ad_1] Supes has been in a slump. Not personally, mind you, but following the drab affair that was 2017’s Justice League, the future of Superman on the silver screen has…
What the Creator of ‘Watchmen’ Gets Right About Superhero Fans
[ad_1] The tragedy of Alan Moore, if there is one, is that his 1980s comics work—Watchmen, V for Vendetta—has been perpetually misunderstood by an audience too eager to learn the…
‘Doctor Who’ Needs to Get Over Itself
[ad_1] Doctor Who’s whole existence has been that of a metamorphosing thing. Due in part to the show’s baked-in rubrics of time travel and regenerating protagonists, it’s the kind of…
After ‘Andor,’ Read These 5 Comics
[ad_1] In some respects, Andor is a new frontier: a series spinning off from not only the Skywalker Saga but specifically one of the two Star Wars Story films (in…
Kate Beaton on Creating the Best Graphic Novel of 2022
[ad_1] The book was in the works since 2016, I pitched it to Drawn and Quarterly in the summer of 2016. I took a year to write it. I took…
‘Best of 2000 AD’ Proves Why the Comics Are Classic
[ad_1] At first glance, even the name feels ambitious: Best of 2000 AD. How can anything, even a six-volume collection of anthologies running more than 200 pages each, live up…
‘The Sandman’ Review: Netflix’s Adaptation Is Almost Too Faithful to Its Source Material
[ad_1] There’s a point midway through the sixth episode of Netflix’s The Sandman—the most successful episode of the first season by some distance—where Tom Sturridge’s Dream is talking to his…
After ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,’ Read These 5 Comics
[ad_1] Jennifer Walters might not seem like an obvious choice for the next generation of Marvel superheroes—in fact, as trailers for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law demonstrate, she’s not even interested…
The Endless Afterlife of ‘The Sandman’
[ad_1] For faithful readers, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman saga came to an end more than a quarter century ago. It happened in 1996, when DC Comics published The Sandman #75, the…