Usually when people talk about changing sexual orientation, it's to turn gays straight but Marvel comics inverts that idea in Young Avengers #9.
It reveals that the reason Prodigy kisses Hulkling in the previous issue is because his superpower turned him gay! (actually bisexual but close enough) Prodigy explains that he ... [Read More]
"The Justice League is Dead" declares the solicitation for Justice League #24. The butler did it. Justice League #23 reveals the mysterious bowler wearing villain known as the Outsider is actually Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth from Earth-3, a parallel Earth where good and evil are reversed. The Outsider opens a portal to ... [Read More]
Writer J. Michael Straczynski (Superman: Earth One) openly declares his contempt for sidekicks in the afterword of Sidekick #1, the first of twelve issues from Image comics.
"I'll be honest with you: as a kid reading comic books, I hated sidekicks," Straczynski recalls. "Robin, Speedy, Bucky, Kid Flash, Rick Jones...they ... [Read More]
Superman always seems to be everywhere at once. Usually this theme is explored from the point-of-view of the villains who either convince themselves otherwise or go out of their way to avoid Superman's hometown, Metropolis.
Writer Kyle Killen inverts this plot line in Adventures of Superman #15
A fanboy named Mike ... [Read More]
When there are no more extra lives, the dead will walk the Earth!
This Halloween, Arctic Press resurrects all the classic video game characters in 8-Bit Zombies, a one-shot comic by Fred Perry (Gold Digger) and David Hutchison (Oz the Manga). Don't expect Pac-Man to last long given the zombie weakness for head ... [Read More]
This October Dark Horse will immortalize the gratuitous sex and violence of the grindhouse genre in the indelible panels of a comic book. Alex de Campi (Smoke, Ashes) pens Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight, which will feature four 2-issue stories each 48-pages long. The first of which is "Bee Vixens from Mars," a B-movie ... [Read More]
