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Classic Comic Books Look Stunning as Stained Glass
Posted on July 31, 2011 Written by 2 Comments
Comic books are tremendous, classic comic books even more so. Comics still hold a soft spot in the hearts of many with films featuring comic book characters released seemingly every month, the recent conclusion of another Comic-Con, and new methods for sparking comic cravings. The books themselves (the good ones) are works of art, with [...]
Assassin’s Creed Goes Multimedia
Posted on November 11, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
This week saw the release of two side projects to the Assassin’s Creed universe — one a monthly comic book, the other what appears to be a motion comic or possibly even an animated film or series. Of course, the game Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is mere days away from hitting store shelves, so the time [...]
When Marvel Met TRON
Posted on October 20, 2010 Written by 1 Comment
What if the Marvel Universe was actually inside the computerized world of Tron? Marvel Comics has just released a set of 10 variant covers that show artists’ renderings of what some of Marvel’s top-tier heroes would look like inside Tron. I’ve never been a huge fan of variant covers, but these covers — by Marvel [...]
Why I gave up comic books
Posted on July 29, 2010 Written by 2 Comments
I love comics. I really do. I think it’s the most underrated of all art forms. Stories can be told in comics that can’t be told in any other medium, and that excites me. But a while back, after years of buying comics religiously every single week, I gave up on comics altogether. Here’s why.
Buy Your Capes Online
Posted on April 8, 2010 Written by 1 Comment
I grew up outside of Boston, Mass, and when I was little, we lived in this two-story house off of Pleasant Street. It wasn’t much, but it did have a cool patio on the second story, which was pretty neat to me at the time. I was pretty young when we lived in that house, [...]
Open Books Quicker With Lightsaber Bookends
Posted on March 29, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
Say what you will about Episodes I-III of the Star Wars series, one thing they did very well was the lightsabers. Right off the bat they were slicing through doors, turning robots into victims of a laser-formed ginsu knife, and let’s not even get started about Darth Maul’s double-sided piece of awesome. It was one [...]