There are a lot of Pokemon webcomics out there. Rare Candy Treatment examines the odd quirks of the Pokemon universe. Super Effective is a slapstick reimagining of the manga, complete with black and white tones. Nuzlocke’s Hard Mode brings an…
Broodhollow is a new webcomic by Kris Straub. He is best known for his long-running sci-fi webcomic Starslip and the gag a day comic Chainsawsuit. He’s also a regular guest in the expanded Penny Arcade universe, guesting on various PATV…
The push goal I was most excited for when webcomic Penny Arcade went to Kickstarter to go ad-free for a year was their pitch for a new reality show as season four of Penny Arcade: The Series. They would invite…
Sexuality. Religion. Racism. Language. Violence. Politics. Fear. Occult. These are just some of the reasons why libraries and school systems across America have been pressured to ban or restrict books from patrons, usually children. Yesterday, 30 September 2012, marked the…
How to Make Webcomics is not a book you’re going to pick up as a casual read. It’s a well-planned guidebook to all the big technical topics that come into play when you want to launch a webcomic. Brad Guigar…
Two things are now official for the next Marvel movie franchise: James Gunn, the writer/director behind Slither and the best part of the seemingly discontinued reality TV series Scream Queens, will be adapting and directing the Guardians of the Galaxy…
The Dark Knight Rises, the third film in Nolan Batman trilogy, poses a novel problem when it comes to evaluation. How do you approach a film that is clearly designed not to stand alone but to close out the overriding…
If there’s one thing I know from personal experience, it’s that Internet drama never really ends until lack of web access stops it. You sometimes just need to ride it out as the terrors fade into nothingness. There has been…
If you’re like me, you haven’t seen all of The Walking Dead yet. There could be any number of reasons. For example, AMC premiered the show on Halloween. Home haunters were a little preoccupied with keeping trick or treaters from…
The TinTin comics are a worldwide phenomenon. Just look at the international receipts for Steven Spielberg’s TinTin movie. The film only did in $78million in America, but took in $297million internationally. That’s almost four times as much overseas than in…
Marvel Comics has never been a company to shy away from teaching moments in its comic books. In the 1970s, Marvel published a trio of Spider-Man comics as part of an anti-drug campaign. New characters are constantly introduced in the…
Is this what Joss Whedon is like when he gets to control everything on his productions? If so, I love this side of him. The Avengers could have easily been a catastrophe. Instead, under his steady hand, it might actually…
What do you use to read when you’re traveling? Do you pack up magazines and books or go all digital on your laptop or eReader? Do you ever stop at a shop in the bus station, airport, or train station…
DC Comics have decided to expand the Watchmen universe. Alan Moore’s famous short run series about a group of vigilante superheroes are forced to rejoin together to stop doomsday. It’s dark, it’s driven by character development instead of action, and…