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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (27 May 2024)

Today’s reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to the trippiness of old DC covers…

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 April 2024)

This week’s reminder that comic books can be awesome is yet another tribute to Carmine Infantino’s talent for cover composition:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (19 February 2024)

A reminder that comic book covers can be awesome… and also quite bizarre:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 January 2024)

This year’s second reminder that comic book covers can be awesome…

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (3 October 2022)

I’ve highlighted the fantastic cover work of Carmine Infantino in the past, namely his beautiful covers for Silver Age Batman and Flash comics. Yet these heroes weren’t the only ones to benefit from Infantino’s extraordinary talent for cover composition… Along … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (23 May 2022)

I had heard (perhaps misheard) that the Doctor Strange sequel was going to be the MCU’s first proper entry into the subgenre of superhero horror. While Marvel comics had inspired a number of similar hybrid projects across time, from Ang … Continue reading

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Another 12 cool sci-fi short stories

This year there was no entry into Gotham Calling’s winter tradition of spotlighting sci-fi war comics. I’ll compensate with yet another list of short stories that similarly treat science fiction, not so much as a challenging, head-scratching experience, but as … Continue reading

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Minor but cool sci-fi comics

After the remarkable Ex Machina, Alex Garland has now put together another tense, intelligent science fiction film in the form of Annihilation. The movie feels like a welcome reminder that, even though cinema tends to simplify the dense, heady tales … Continue reading

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