Category: DC Comics
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More about Krona's plan are revealed in this week's Green Lantern #62, as well as in the preview of "War of the Green Lanterns" included in all of this week's DC books. Spoilers after the jump…
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Crap. DC's May solicits reveal that Freedom Fighters, a title I just sang the praises of, is cancelled as of issue #9: FREEDOM FIGHTERS #9Written by JIMMY PALMIOTTI and JUSTIN GRAY Art and cover by TRAVIS MOORE & WALDEN WONG They’ve saved America countless times, but there’s one national crisis the Freedom Fighters are powerless…
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I've always had a soft spot for the Freedom Fighters, stemming from their introduction to the DCU during a 1973 JLA/JSA crossover, then into their short-lived late 70s series, and on into All-Star Squadron and Young All-Stars. It hurt to see most of them wiped out during the first issue of Infinite Crisis, but soon we…
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In the latest Hot Button feature at Newsarama, Vaneta Rogers discusses social commentary in superhero comics with writers Denny O'Neil (notable in this particular context for his classic run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow), Judd Winick (controversial runs dealing with hate crimes and AIDS in Green Lantern and, uh, Green Arrow), and Greg Rucka (celebrated for redefining The…
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The Wall Street Journal this morning contains a review of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos; the review was written by John Gribbin , author of In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality. Greene's book (and I…
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That was strange–I just read Green Arrow #7 last night, one day after I wrote this Psychology Today blog post on self-loathing, and what do I find Ollie and the mysterious Lady of the Forest discussing? No big spoilers here, particularly concering the Lady's identity, which is tangentially relevant but not essential to exploring Ollie's attitude…
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In this week's Grumpy Old Fan column at CBR (one of my weely must-reads), Tom Bondurant looks back on 2010, noting that 2011 marks the silver anniversary of the creative renaissance which was DC Comics in 1986. The year began with Howard Chaykin’s Shadow and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight. In the spring, Len Wein and…
Mark D. White 