Comic Culture Archives

Batman: The Killing Joke Animated Film Criticism is Hogwash

August 2, 2015

Last month DC and Bruce Timm announced they will be creating an animated film adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke to be released in 2016. This announcement has already ...

Marvel Editor Calls Out Bad Journalism

John F. Trent

July 26, 2015

Comic Culture

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Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief, Axel Alonso, sat down on Friday with Comic Book Resources to discuss Marvel’s new “All-New, All-Different Marvel” hip-hop album variant covers and the recently announced “What If? Infi...

The Creators’ Word: Credit, Marketing, PR in Comics.

Matt Battaglia

July 22, 2015

The Creators' Word

This article first appeared on Matt Battaglia's Tumblr and was republished with his permission. For context: And: SKTCHD Survey: The State of Comic Book Retail In case you didn’t read the article, ...

Graphic Policy: Hip Hop is Only for Black People; Marvel is Racist.

Charles Cox

July 16, 2015

Comic Culture

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The blog “where comics and politics meet” is at it again. And before anyone gets upset about the title; no that isn't an exact quote, but it's what they insinuated. Marvel recently announced that they would ...

The Airboy Freakout IS Censorship

Charles Cox

July 8, 2015

Comic Culture

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If you aren’t caught up on the controversy over the second issue of Airboy, check out my previous article where I denounce the Airboy outrage. Recently some agitators have defended their tactics by claim...

Image Comics Airboy #2 Transexual Controversy

Denouncing the Airboy Outrage

Charles Cox

July 4, 2015

Comic Culture

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Go home Social Justice Warriors (SJW). You’re drunk. Airboy is a unique project from James Robinson and Greg Hinkle in which they portray themselves as characters in a weird, multi-verse comic book story. It...

Stan Lee Says Leave Spider-Man Alone

John F. Trent

June 26, 2015

Comic Culture

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A new licensing agreement between Sony and Marvel Comics surfaced detailing the mandates for Spider-Man. “Spidey should be male, not smoke tobacco nor abuse alcohol, and not be a homosexual’ (unless Marvel has ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Marvel’s Squirrel Girl

Nick Ford

June 20, 2015

Comic Books, Comic Culture

Dorren Green, AKA Squirrel Girl is a long-time super hero of the Marvel Universe (MU). Although it seems unlikely, Squirrel Girl has been in the MU for over twenty years now! Now, that’s not saying much given c...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Pranks Hollywood for Charity

John F. Trent

June 18, 2015

Comic Culture

The T-800 took to the streets of Hollywood and even stopped by Madame Tussads Hollywood. Arnold Schwarzenegger posed as his iconic character as visitors stopped by to get pictures with what they believed to be ...

The Green Blaze Saves Denver

John F. Trent

June 13, 2015

Comic Culture

You may have heard of Batkid saving the city of San Francisco from the likes of Penguin in his sweet Batkid Lamborghini. However, Make A Wish Colorado has introduced a new superhero to the world, The Green Blaz...