Personally, my first choice was Miley Cyrus, and I didn't have a second choice. 27 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am

Comic shop comics: August 22 26 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am

Batman '66 #2 (DC Comics) There are two stories in this second issue, both written by Jeff Parker. The cover story features art by Ty Templeton, one of my favorite artists and one whose work I see way...

Meanwhile... 24 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am

This week at Robot 6 I reviewed two original graphic novels, neither of which are really "novels" and both of which deal rather broadly with the rather broad topic of science. The first of these is M...

So who exactly is the target audience for Marvel's comics? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm

I have a hard time telling, based on the juxtaposition of these two ads on the very same page of Daredevil #30, one for a prose novel series about serial killers promising a "grittier, bloodier" seque...

Some notes on Batman: The Dark Knight Vol.1—Knight Terrors 21 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am

•Like Batman Inc, Batman: Dark Knight was a newish Batman title that launched shortly before the New 52 relaunch of the entire line, resulting in there now being two volume ones of the series, disting...

Marvel's November previews reviewed 19 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm

Just as night follows day, my reviews of Marvel's solicitations inevitably follows my reviews of DC's solicitations. For the whole shebang, check out Comic Book Resources. For just the parts of the sh...

DC's November previews reviewed 19 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am

Well once again I completely missed the release of th Big Two solicitation information, and am only just getting to covering it days later than usual. What jumps out at me the most this month is that...

Here are links to a few things I wrote and a whole bunch of things that I did not. 17 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm

After two weeks off (save for tie-ins), the Justice League crossover/event story "Trinity War" returned this week, as did my reading of it for ComicsAlliance. For week four of our "Trinity War Corresp...

Sometimes I'm torn. 16 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am

Here's a good example. So, on the one hand, there are the above panels from Charles Soule and Alessandro Vitti's Red Lanterns #22, in which is former Green Lantern Guy Gardner, who has recently becom...

Did you know that Batman is so insecure about not having any superpowers... 15 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am

...that he apparently labels his 45-pound weights as 500-pound weights, in order to trick children into thinking he's got the super-strength necessary to lift 2,000 pounds over his head? That's the i...