Chad Nevett and I celebrate our fourth consecutive installment of Sequart.org's increasingly-popular SPLASH PAGE column by talking about...

Quick Reviews: Batman #674: Just in case you didn't believe how important 1963's Batman #156 was to Morrison's run, this week...

Last year, bursting with a need to examine something for more than one blog post, I decided to take an in-depth look at Darwyn Cooke's T...

I don't know if you're familiar with Bryan Dietrich, but you should be. He's written several books of poetry that, if you'r...

Once upon a time, two of the world's leading comic book critics disagreed about the quality of three recent issues of Amazing Spider-Man...

The actual title of the comic book, as indicated on page one, is The Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death . I like...

Shockingly, my wife and I were able to sneak out of the house last night and actually attend a movie in a real-live theater (or, as the loca...

A couple of years ago, I had a subscription to Bookforum , the bi-monthly magazine of book reviews and literary essays. I stopped getting i...

Some comic book-related things that have been on my mind lately, in fun, bite-sized form: 1. Mark Farmer makes John Byrne's pencils look...

I didn't want to have to resort to citing Susan Sontag's over-referenced 1964 essay, "Notes on Camp," but I couldn't ...

Chad Nevett and I are back in action with another exciting SPLASH PAGE column at Sequart.org. This week, we explore yellow goggles, time tr...

I expected Jason Aaron's debut on Ghost Rider to be strong. His work on Scalped has been phenomenal, and his fill-in issue of Wolveri...

I didn't address this when it was "news" a couple of months ago, but Ed Brubaker was repeatedly quoted as saying, "people...

I've been on a positive kick lately, praising the hell out of ClanDestine #1, talking up my crush on Brand New Day, listing the great, ...

Yesterday I posted my declaration of the American Comic Canon, and the comments have been great. I fully expect my Canon to spark debate an...

Chris Mautner, at Blog@Newsarama, posted a piece about the existence of critics treating comics thoughtfully and about the existence of a c...

In response to my enthusiasm over Brand New Day, local comic book reader and Danny Rand look-alike Marc Wrzesinski commented that he just do...

One full month in and I'm finding myself a HUGE fan of Brand New Day. Not so much the actual stories so far, although they've been ...

Chad Nevett and I have begun a new weekly column at Sequart.org. It's called THE SPLASH PAGE and it features fancy comic book chit chat...

The wise Marc Caputo commented on my last post, and I wrote a long response which somehow got erased the moment I clicked "submit....