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 11 2014
The recent Sony hacks have been the gifts that keep on giving, from the revelation that “After Earth is an ecosystem of content and brand initiatives” to the possibility of a 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover (which is technically a comic book adaptation). Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Sony was actually considering …
Dec 10 2014
Portland-based performance poet Brenna Twohy grabbed the world’s attention earlier this year with her pieces “Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them” and “Another Rape Poem“. With her latest piece, she captures the inner strength of a sufferer of mental illness with a piece for the preliminaries of the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam entitled “In …
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 05 2014
It’s been rumoured for a while now, but Marvel has now officially confirmed that the swoon-worthy Benedict Cumberbatch will be adding to his geek cred by adding Doctor Stephen Strange to his repertoire, better known as the master of the mystic arts Doctor Strange. “Stephen Strange’s story requires an actor capable of great depth and sincerity,” …
Dec 05 2014
The biggest comic book film comes to terrestrial entertainment systems, and we can now walk in the Blu-rays of the beautiful sun. Guardians of the Galaxy was always going to be the trickiest film in the canon to sell to a mass audience. Just like Korath the Pursuer’s (Djimon Hounsou) reaction when he first encounters Peter “Star Lord” …
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 …
Nov 25 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 118, the comic book show that’s about to get a little blue. (Or that “blue” itself?) In this issue, Howard the Duck is back with an all-new ongoing series. Why do we let him lick us like that? ALSO Ant-Man is getting his own novel. Can we get it …
Nov 17 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 117, the comic book show that has a vestigial tail. In this issue, Marvel announces more Guardians of the Galaxy series. Why you ask? You said it yourself bitch – they’re the Guardians of the Galaxy. ALSO Marvel hires a wrestler to write a comic. If the trend catches on, …
Nov 17 2014
If you go by his Gestalt Comics bio, writer Andrew Constant has voyaged through journalism, salesmanship, I.T. management, bartending, and being a hippy before finding his feet as a comic book writer. His debut graphic novel Torn, first published back in 2011, was a reverse werewolf story with art by Nicola Scott and Joh James. His two …
