Jan 06 2015
If Avengers: Age of Ultron is one of the most highly anticipated films of 2015, then surely the similarly titled AVENGERS: RAGE OF ULTRON will be a must-read graphic novel in the first half of this year. First announced back in July at SDCC 2014, the Uncanny X-Force team of Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña reunite for the latest in …
Dec 30 2014
As the final days of 2014 close in on us, we take the opportunity not to look back in anger or nostalgia, but to look ahead to the wonders that 2015 will hold. (The looking back all happens in our podcast Issue 123 and our annual Panels Awards). Next year will be a massive year …
Dec 29 2014
Live(ish) from the Panels Cave, deep in the heart of the hollowed-out mountain, it’s the 2014 Panels Awards! With your hosts Richard Gray, David McVay and David Longo. This is Behind the Panels. Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 123, the comic book show that’s giving out awards. In this issue, we pick our favourite books …
Dec 23 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 122, the comic book show that thinks it’s hosted by three wise men, but they are really just a trio of ho, ho, hos. In this issue, we celebrate Christmas while DC cancels chunk of their books. All welcome to the Newish 32! ALSO Archie gets rebooted in 2015 …
Dec 23 2014
Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the great art up front. You can judge a book by its cover. Welcome back to our semi-regular column that looks at our favourite comic book covers each month. …
Dec 17 2014
The 2014 Behind the Panels Awards, celebrating the best in comics from around the world in 2014, will be recorded LIVE TO HARD-DRIVE at the Panels Cave, and hitting your podcast feeds from from 29 December 2014. Join hosts Richard Gray, David McVay and David Longo as we count off our favourites from the last 12 months, and get …
Dec 16 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels, the comic book show that’s like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vat full of absinthe. In this issue, SyFy is preparing a new TV series following the adventures of Superman’s granddad. At last: that Kryptonian GILF porn parody finally has a place. ALSO DC bases a new series …
Dec 16 2014
Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the great art up front. You can judge a book by its cover. Yet some of those covers last for the ages… Happy holidays, everyone! Welcome back …
Dec 08 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 120, the comic book show that’s one nerd short of a barbershop quartet. In this is issue, Oprah Winfrey may be leading the Suicide Squad. Look inside your skulls, because you get a bomb, you get a bomb and YOU get a bomb. ALSO Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as …
Dec 01 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 119, the comic book show that wonders what kind of scene it’s getting into. In this issue, the Avengers go travelling through time to defeat a future where Ultron wins in Ultron: Forever. Wait, haven’t we heard this one before? THEN the Avengers go travelling through time to defeat …
Nov 27 2014
Following the Flashpoint event, DC Comics did something that very few thought was possible in modern comics: they scrapped everything. Beginning with 52 number #1 issues in September 2011, The New 52 was the first line-wide reinvention of DC’s core characters in over seven decades. More than simply renumbering, it took characters from all of …
