Oct 01 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 continuing monthly column. Except for shamefully missing last month due to our live show …
Sep 29 2014
Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 111, the comic book show that wakes up in its own reality every day. In this issue, Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed again. We guess that’s what they get for going somewhere called Crime Alley. ALSO we report back from Oz Comic-Con Sydney and Ashfield’s Comic Con-Versation, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. …
Sep 21 2014
Green Arrow was dead. Or at least, Oliver Queen and the book that carried his alter-ego’s name was. When the first ongoing Green Arrow series ended in August 1998, it came in at #94 on the sales figures charts for the month. While DC Comics and the industry generally began to get nostalgic at the turn of …
Sep 18 2014
The first of a series of standalone books set on alternate Earths gives us a flavour of what to expect over the course of Grant Morrison’s The Multiversity. (Warning: review contains plot elements that may be considered spoilers) With The Multiversity, writer Grant Morrison managed to introduce a fictional narrative around the notion that all stories …
Sep 04 2014
Long rumoured to be a part of the DC Cinematic Universe, and now he has confirmed via Twitter that he will play the nefarious Black Adam. DC Comics added that it will be part of a new Shazam! film coming soon, with a script currently in development from Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After, Jack the Giant …
Aug 30 2014
Green Arrow may have returned to the spotlight during the darker turns of the 1980s, but even he wouldn’t escape the superhero death toll of the 1990s. Mike Grell’s departure from the book coincided with a sea-change in the industry, with the Dark Age that arguably began with The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and culminated in the grunge …
Aug 25 2014
A near-pristine copy of 1938’s Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman, has sold for a record US $3,207,852.00 on auction site eBay. This marks the first time that any comic has been sold for more than $3 million. Rated by the Comics Guaranty Corporation as a CGC 9.0, the …
Aug 21 2014
Grant Morrison’s long-awaited meta dissection of comics leaves no panel behind, uniquely involving the reader directly in the narrative. (Warning: review contains plot elements that may be considered spoilers) In the writing of this review, another layer is added to the multiverse that Grant Morrison has been working on for the better part of the …
Aug 13 2014
DC Comics has announced that they will be releasing another new addition to the Batman family in November. Gotham By Midnight will take a look at Gotham’s supernatural side with Ray Fawkes writing and Ben Templesmith on art duties. Fawkes, already versed in DC’s supernatural universe through Constantine and Batman Eternal, told DC All Access that this …
Aug 08 2014
Not one to easily give into gimmicks – except for the August selfie variants, the September 3D Futures End covers, October’s Monster variants – we can now add DC’s announcement for a LEGO variant cover month in November 2014. Tying into the the release of the LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham video game, the LEGO variants can …
Jul 31 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 continuing monthly column. We can say again because we’re back on schedule. Why …
