Looking back, Secret Empire is a timely story about unchecked power in places where you would least expect it: Captain America, the symbol of determination against hate in all its forms.
Read MoreThe Unwritten is Carey and Gross's magnum opus. It is a resonating story about fiction versus reality, the importance of stories, and the deconstruction of narrative and monomyth.
Read MoreWith the passing of the legendary rapper MF DOOM, staff writer Jacob Cordas reflects on his personal relationship with the man and his music — and how it made him okay being a nerd.
Read MoreAnn Nocenti and JRJR take a unique approach to Daredevil in Daredevil #253, a Christmas issue that sets itself up as a retelling of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Kingpin as Scrooge and a Santa-like Daredevil spreading Christmas cheer.
Read MoreA look at three comics starring Renee Montoya as The Question, through which writer Greg Rucka and his collaborators explored humanity’s darkest impulses
Read MoreCrossover through its first two issues is so obsessed with making sure readers know that it’s all about comic books, it never manages to actually say anything meaningful about comic books.
Read MoreToday we have an excerpt of American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason, which covers the life of the 1940s New York comics publisher, Lev Gleason.
Read MoreBy Toren Chenault — Violence is complicated. Audiences are fine with violence in movies like Transformers or Infinity War, and for readers of comics like Batman or Spider-Man, violence inflicted on villains feels necessary. Here comes a man called Bane, high on venom, or a man dressed as a goblin throwing exploding pumpkins from a glider. We see these villains, and we want heroes to pummel them. It quickly becomes good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and then it’s on to the next issue, the next arc, the next story.
Read MoreBy Taylor Pechter — “When a lie is confronted, there are three choices. Admission, and thus honesty. Perpetuation and thus feeble deceit. Or hostility, the child of fear.” Diana of Themyscira, postulating about her current situation. The examination of lies, and said confrontation of them, is brought forward during the first 25 (technically 26 with the Rebirth one-shot) issues of Wonder Woman’s 2016 ongoing series during DC Rebirth. Marking the return of legendary Wonder Woman scribe Greg Rucka — joined by the artistic talents of Liam Sharp, Nicola Scott, and Bilquis Evely, with colorists Laura Martin and Romulo Fajardo Jr., and letterer Jodi Wynne — this run is seen as one of the most unique, and most critically acclaimed of the early Rebirth era.
Read MoreBy Toren Chenault — Black History Month is a time to celebrate. I love being Black, and I love everything about my culture. And I think it’s important to celebrate culture, no matter who you are. I also love comic books and am in the process of writing my first comic. As a future comic creator and as a Black male, I think it’s important to acknowledge the strides we’ve made in the comic book industry when it comes to diversity. See, we still have a long way to go, though. In fact, it saddens me the low number of Black writers and artists I see in mainstream comics today.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — New comics releases started to trickle out again in May 2020, but the industry (and the country) was far from at full strength. With shelter-in-place orders still in effect for many of the largest population centers in the country, even with new comics coming out it was difficult for many readers to get access to them. This is all slowly changing, and the new comics release schedule for June 2020 is reflective of that.
Read MoreMy name is Toren Chenault and I'm one of the co-founders of Black Hole Comics and Entertainment. I’m from Cincinnati, but currently live in Lansing, Michigan. I'm also the President/Publisher/CEO whatever other fancy title people like to have with these types of companies. That isn't important. What is important is that you are reading the very first post for Black Hole! And I'd like to welcome you.
Read MoreBy Taylor Pechter — Justice is a word that can be defined and analyzed in many ways. In the broad definition, it is the quality of being just or righteous, or moral rightness. It’s this conflict of moral righteousness that is the focus of JSA: Black Reign. Written by Geoff Johns, penciled by Don Kramer and Rags Morales, inked by Keith Champagne and Michael Bair, and colored by John Kalisz, Black Reign focuses on the ideological conflict of action versus reaction in terms of justice and how it is served.
Read MoreBy Toren Chenault — If you haven’t been paying attention to the world, President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qasim Soleimani. He was also impeached a few weeks ago. In Australia, more than half a billion animals have been killed by unstoppable wildfires. Around the world, pro democracy protests continue in places like Colombia, Spain, and Hong Kong. And here in the states, a battle for the Democratic nomination continues as reports say that Bernie Sanders possibly, maybe, or not at all, told Elizabeth Warren that he didn’t think a woman could win the preside
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — DC’s latest giant-sized anniversary celebration is upon us, with Wonder Woman getting the treatment this month after it was Superman’s turn two years ago with Action Comics #1000 and Batman’s last year with Detective Comics #1000. We’ll have a full review when the big issues hits tomorrow (and you can read why we’re so hyped about it here), but today, we want to look at one of the major selling points of these big books — the covers.
Read MoreBy Taylor Pechter — Diana of Themyscira (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) is many things: A hero, a warrior, an icon, but most of all, she’s an ambassador...coming to Man’s World to bring love and peace to a society that is often embroiled in violence and war. This side of Diana is explored heavily in what many say is one of — if not the — defining runs on the character, the run of issues that was written by Greg Rucka.
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