The idea to explore the world of Upper Deck’s Vs. System came to me by chance, thanks to a late-night reading session online when I stumbled across this article on Pro Circuit Los Angeles, an official Vs. System tournament where the champion won $40,000.
I’d seen Vs. cards for months, but it looked like they never [...]
In the midst of my ever-growing pull list, there is an elite group of comic books that rank as Must-Buys, even if it means eating Ramen for lunch all week! Two of the books currently in that group are published by Arcana Studio, the fledgling Canadian indie that is home to 100 Girls and Ezra. [...]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has undertaken the defense of retailer Gordon Lee of Legends in Rome, GA against charges arising from the dissemination of Alternative Comics #2. Lee was arrested on charges of distributing material depicting nudity, and distributing obscene material to a minor; the first charge alone, a felony offense in Georgia, [...]
There’s a perennial debate on which creative setup works best in comics, the collaboration or the solo creator. With superior examples on both sides, of course, there is no definitive answer, but for every good example, there’s at least as many bad ones.
Creator/writer/artist Mario Gully’s intriguing concept - eight-year old Hannah Washington creates an imaginary [...]
[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.]
A light week for the big two, highlighted by the already reviewed return of the Black Panther, and [...]
