Sep 06 2013
J.H. Williams III and Haden Blackman have announced that they will exit Batwoman after issue #26, citing last-minute “editorial decisions” as the cause of their frustration. One of the more publicised changes was DC Comics’ decision to disallow the lead character Kate Kane to marry her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer “after a year or more of planning …
Sep 04 2013
The Australian Federal Election is being held this weekend across this big, brown land that we here at Behind the Panels call home. While most of the DC and Marvel characters will be ineligible to vote – a combination of their (mostly) US citizenship and fictional status as far as the electoral role is concerned …
Aug 26 2013
The torrent of abuse and praise for the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel has not yet cause the Internet to explode, although it has come pretty close. With everything from petitions to stop the casting to actual death threats (seriously, people!), it probably says more about the …
Aug 25 2013
It was the best of times and the worst of times for Green Arrow in the 1980s. Entering his fourth decade of his publication history, he was still yet to see his own solo title. Firmly established as the radical left-wing voice of the DC Comics universe, the late 1970s saw him slightly more domesticated …
Aug 17 2013
Green Arrow is now the star of a major TV show in the US now, shifting what was once a second-string character to the forefront of the public’s imagination. Yet he wasn’t always a star player, often taking a supporting role to other characters, or simply being unfavourably compared with a certain Dark Knight. When we …
Aug 01 2013
Green Arrow has made a big splash in the last few years, even getting his own television series with Arrow hitting the small screen in 2013. He’s graced animated series, major comic book crossovers and survived every incarnation of the DC Universe. Yet he wasn’t always a star player, often taking a supporting role to …
Jul 23 2013
First introduced in 1974 in the pages of The Incredible Hulk, he was introduced to the X-Men in the pages of Giant X-Men #1 in 1975, and soon became a staple of Chris Claremont‘s historic run that followed. Now the character is quite literally everywhere, occupying several of his own monthly titles, along with various X-Men and Avengers …
Jun 28 2013
With Man of Steel now out in cinemas around the world, comics fans and non-readers alike may be looking for a place to start reading the further adventures of Superman. This is, after all, the 75th anniversary of the Big Red S, and there’s a world of stories out there. Some stories are essential reads, …
Apr 10 2013
UPDATE: It has since been announced that it was not Apple that banned the issue, but rather Comixology strictly interpreting that policy. In a statement, David Steinberger, CEO of Comixology said: “We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration …
