“Astro City” Hits 100 Issues
A truly brilliant comics achievement: the wonder and sadness of the hundredth issue of Astro City.
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Tag: Kurt Busiek
DC Comics This Week – Plant Monsters Everywhere!
Looking for a great superhero comic this week? Check out Astro City, which is head and shoulders above the rest of DC’s offerings this week.
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Punk Rock + Astro City = Excellent Vertigo Week
This week in Vertigo Comics, the debut of a punk rock comic, more Astro City, Art Ops continues its charming weirdness, and an Eric Kripke series proves somewhat disappointing.
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The Revival of Vertigo Comics
Three new titles, two horror, one all-ages, showcase the best of Vertigo Comics’s new direction.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — April 9th, 2014
This week we look at the all-ages comic: Skyward, along with Astro City, Aquaman and the Others, How i Made the World, and Dexter Down Under.
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Serious Comics, Part 5: Truly Super Heroes
Superheroes can be a tricky subject. They’re a staple of the comic book medium, of course, and for many readers (and non-comics-readers) superheroes are pretty much synonymous with comic books. They’re also often two-dimensional and somewhat mindless—but they don’t have to be.
Continue ReadingThe Tipping Point: Geek Girls, Superheroes, and the DC Comics Reboot
Want to attract women? Publish good material that doesn’t actively chase them away.–Kurt Busiek, on Twitter, 10/24/2011 I have been a reader of superhero comics since I could read, buying them off the spinner rack for a quarter. My love for them was sealed when I watched (in reruns) the first appearance of Batgirl on […]
Continue ReadingThe Tipping Point: Geek Girls, Superheroes, and the DC Comics Reboot
Want to attract women? Publish good material that doesn’t actively chase them away.–Kurt Busiek, on Twitter, 10/24/2011 I have been a reader of superhero comics since I could read, buying them off the spinner rack for a quarter. My love …
Continue ReadingComics Spotlight on Astro City Volume 2: “Confession”
Happy Comics Release Day! With the news coming out of San Diego Comic Con that Kurt Busiek’s Astro City series has been optioned for the big screen, I thought I’d take a look at one of my favorite volumes of …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Goes to Wondercon (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
[Two years ago, I got to go to my first Wondercon as a member of the “media elite.” With Wondercon 2010 just a few weeks away – April 2-4 – I thought we’d show off a few pix from those …
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