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Detective Comics #871: Analyzing an Opening Scene, Part Three

Nikolai Fomich — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:00:38 +0000

Though all this information can be inferred, what the black pin signifies is not explicitly stated on page one, and so readers are encouraged to turn the page to learn more. Page two is an… [more]

Detective Comics #871: Analyzing an Opening Scene, Part Two

Nikolai Fomich — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:00:05 +0000

The final page of the opening scene, page three, is a splash page. In fact, the boy literally emerges from the depths with a splash. This splash page is effective in part because it follows… [more]

Detective Comics #871: Analyzing an Opening Scene, Part One

Nikolai Fomich — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:00:40 +0000

Several years ago, I received a rejection letter from 2000AD in the mail for a story I had pitched called “The Colorblind Cannibal”. In the letter was a brief note explaining that the story didn’t… [more]

Deconstructing Batman and Robin: The Grayson Foils, Part 3

Cody Walker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000

Batman and Robin: The Grayson Foils, Part 3" title="Deconstructing Batman and Robin: The Grayson Foils, Part 3" style="float:left;" />The first six issues of Grant Morrison’s Batman and Robin expertly put Dick Grayson in a position that readers weren’t used to seeing him in – one of vulnerability. The normally confident Grayson approaches heroism… [more]

Down with Comics Activism!

Bryan Miller — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:05:51 +0000

The lights are out at O’Malleys and the greatest y’allternative bluegrass band in the world, The Woodbox Gang, are twanging up my stereo with devil songs. The ol’ wallet is considerably lighter thanks to beer… [more]

Comics Published on 6 November 2002

Matt Martin — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:26:54 +0000

Powers #25 Image Comics – Brian Bendis (w); Michael Oeming (a) Periodically, I like to sit down and make a list of all the titles I buy, month to month. In doing so, what I… [more]

Comics Published on 2 October 2002

Matt Martin — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:29:03 +0000

Uncanny X-Men #414 Marvel Comics — Chuck Austen (w); Sean Phillips (p/i) After a while you run out of ways to say the same good things about the same books. I know that problem is… [more]