These days, it seems like you can’t turn around without stepping on a cape or two. Always the powerhouses of the comic book world, superheroes have now taken over movie theaters as well. But as much as we love our costumed crime fighters, we recognize the fact that not everyone is as excited as we […]
Over the decades, artists and writers working in comics and graphic novels have produced some truly out-there works, ranging from the mildly bizarre to the downright deranged. That’s a compliment, by the way. Slight derangement just means you’re unwilling to tell the same stories in the same way over and over again. If the results can be a bit […]
It’s now September, and, with a second season officially in the works, impossible to deny Netflix’s Stranger Things the title of summer’s buzz-worthiest show. In eight episodes, the Duffer Brothers manage to synthesize everything great about ’80s pop entertainment—Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Marvel, D&D, and synthesizers—without once resorting to empty pastiche. It’s nostalgia with a soul, rare enough […]
Graphic novels tell stories differently than novels. Images accompanying, or sometimes standing in place of, text can bolster the reader’s imagination and pack a powerful punch. The idiom states, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and a graphic novel uses the power of both words and imagery to create an entirely different reading experience. […]
