Eventually, the child must prove themselves capable, they must become adults–even if they are still small, still growing, still uncertain. Most adults are uncertain, facing armies of monsters with only sketchy information, circumstantial evidence. Everything is a rite of passage. The first volume of Paul Pope’s graphic novel series, Battling Boy, is concerned with the… Read More
I’ve been trying—over and over—to approach the question of “What the hell is wrong with DC Comics?” for a while now and it’s been a process of me hitting my head against a wall over and over. A minor footnote in the larger conversation of DC’s madness is that they recently cancelled Legion of Super-Heroes,… Read More
Contributed to my first post as a guest columnist over at the Boom Tube today! Check out the site for a wellspring of reviews, rejected pitches and musings on comic book super-people.