Category: Comics
Top Cow’s The Darkness Comic Book Relaunch to be “a Hard R”
Back in the ’90s, a very interesting period for comic books, new publishers and characters broke into the medium’s mainstream. Image Comics was at the very top of the new companies. It was founded by former top Marvel talents who walked away from the company to start a business of their...
Read MoreWhy is the Comics Direct Market so Important Anyway?
For almost a century, North American comic books have been released through business models which have – historically – made the entire medium be regarded by the general consensus as “cheap, disposable entertainment.” Even in modern times, the current direct market model, distributed...
Read MoreFriday Flash Facts: The Speed Force
Anyone who knows anything about the DC universe knows that most of their speedsters derive their Mercurian speed from the all-encompassing energies of the mystical and omnipresent Speed Force. It is viewed as a representation of the concept of reality in motion, and while it has been a part of the F...
Read MoreFriday Flash Facts: Wallace “Wally” West (II)
Introduced in DC’s New 52 continuity with Flash Annual #3 in 2014, Wallace “Wally” West (II) is the newest addition to the main Flash Family. The New 52 relaunch of the DCU had in large part retconned many well-known characters that were staple members of the speedster family and c...
Read MoreFriday Flash Facts: Bart Allen
Born to Don Allen, one of the Tornado Twins, and his wife Meloni, daughter of President Thawne, in the 30th Century, Bart Allen is the grandson of Barry Allen and is the second Kid Flash and (albeit for a very brief run) the fourth Flash. Bart Allen has also served on more teams than most … <...
Read MoreComic Books for Young Readers
When one looks at the astronomical success of big-screen superhero movies and television series, it stands to reason that flocks of young boys and girls across the country having a growing interest in looking into the source material for their favorite caped (or not caped) crusaders would be concomi...
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