Tag Archives: Ed Hannigan

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 June 2024)

…and today’s reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to the trippiness of old Marvel covers!

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (22 August 2022)

I hope to be back with longer posts next month… Meanwhile, this week’s reminder that comics can be awesome pays tribute to covers that spotlight Batman’s unrivalled Rogues Gallery:

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Weird futuristic war comics

It has become a kind of winter tradition here at the blog to do a post spotlighting cool sci-fi comics about warfare. This started out years ago, as a one-idea post prompted by Rogue One, but there is an endless … Continue reading

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12 non-Batman covers by Ed Hannigan

A few years ago, I spotlighted a handful of brilliant Batman covers drawn by Ed Hannigan, who is a master at crafting memorable images that both pull you in and encapsulate the spirit of the story inside. As I pointed … Continue reading

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12 trippy Batman covers

I’ve often pointed out in this blog that, during the Silver Age, many Batman covers achieved a level of psychedelia akin to a bad acid trip. However, this phenomenon isn’t exclusive to the 1950s and 1960s… Here are a dozen … Continue reading

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Spotlight on Mike Grell’s Green Arrow

Every once in a while, I like to shift gears and talk about comics set outside Gotham City that Batman fans should nevertheless enjoy because their genres (crime, superhero, fantastic adventure) are close to the mood of the Dark Knight. … Continue reading

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Top 10 Batman covers by Ed Hannigan

In a world of uncertainty and subjective truths, inexorably spinning towards its entropic doom, there is one unshakable idea we can all hold on to: Ed Hannigan is one of the greatest cover artists to have ever graced Batman comics … Continue reading

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