In describing comic books, it’s almost as much of a cliché to call a work “trailblazing” as it is to call its creator “legendary,” but sometimes a creation lives up to the hyperbole. Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance was and is one of those works.

Mike Zeck’s cover for Master of Kung-Fu #83 might be my personal prototype for a cover that did its job

Beginning with Captain Britain #1, cover dated October 13, 1976, Marvel Comics did something it had never...

What if you were a brilliant scientist – Stephen Hawking-type brilliant – but like Hawking, you were in a body that...

The deluxe, collector’s edition of the Origins of Marvel Comics includes a new Alex Ross take on the original cover, essays by Ryall, Tom Brevoort, Ross, and Larry Lieber, as well as an interview with Fireside editor Linda Sunshine.

 Breathtaker was the story of Chase Darrow, whose kiss is eventually deadly, yet who is craved by men nonetheless. Cultured by the government to have these powers, anyone who loves her pays the ultimate price. She is conflicted about her powers and was on the run from the government. They sent another of their creations, The Man, after her. 

I’ve previously called Geiger the best monthly comic on the market at the moment, and after reading Geiger #16, it’s easy to stand by that claim.

Even two issues before its conclusion Batman #161’s fourth chapter of “Hush 2” has proven a number of things: First, with the right story, creators can go home again.

Where Magnus Robot Fighter #1-4 (“Steel Nation”) witnessed the initial world-building and set the stage, the second story arc, “Invasion,” cemented the world of 4001 A.D. for readers. In the initial arc, writer Jim Shooter and artist Art Nichols presented readers with an immense, complicated world to which they added equal layers of action and moral conflict. In this arc, Shooter makes the world even more complicated and yet draws the moral quandaries into starker relief.