While we wait for the new film The Batman to get here on March 4, we are reposting Harry Kassen’s excellent comics craft series, The Best of 21st Century in its entirety. The third and final part looks at Grant Morrison’s run…
Read MoreIn this reposted Comics Anatomy piece from 2019, Harry Kassen’s Best of 21st Century Batman series continues, looking at Batman #5 from the Snyder/Capullo New 52 run, which features the Court of Owls…
Read MoreIn this re-post from 2019, Harry Kassen’s Comics Anatomy series launches a 3-part exploration of the best Batman comics of the 21st Century (so far), starting with an issue from Tom King’s Rebirth Batman run.
Read MoreBy Chris Condon — Pull up a review of That Texas Blood. Go all the way back to number one, if you’d like. Maybe even our first review from The Nerdist. No, really. Do it. I’ll wait…
Read MoreHarry Kassen returns to Comics Anatomy with a look at Owen D. Pomery’s Victory Point and the ways in which it leans into both visual and narrative artifice to convey its themes.
Read MoreWriter Rob Pilkington and Artist Kit Mills join Comics Anatomy to share their process for creating Dame from the Dark, laying out their steps for showcasing how ghosts work in the story’s world.
Read MoreIn this anniversary installment of Comics Anatomy, features editor Harry Kassen digs into House of X and takes a look at the ways in which Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz contextualize and recontextualize X-Men history and elements from their own series to create new stories and meanings.
Read MoreThis month’s comic choice for our comics craft series, Comics Anatomy, is Raule and Roger’s Jazz Maynard, a French import published in the U.S. by Magnetic Press.
Read MoreGuest writer Kirin Xin (and site contributor for graphic novels reviews) takes over COMICS ANATOMY this month with a look at the craft in the standout book, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me.
Read MoreBy Harry Kassen — When it comes to Batwoman, there is no creator more heavily associated with the character than J.H. Williams III. From drawing the “Elegy” story arc in Detective Comics, written by Greg Rucka, to co-writing, with W. Haden Blackman, the majority of the New 52 Batwoman series and providing a good portion of the art for that run as well, Williams’ take on the character is the one that comes to mind whenever I think of Kate Kane. Reading back through his run on the character, however, has shown me that, visually, there isn’t just one version of the character, or any character in the series. Williams shifts his style constantly to give information about the characters and the worlds they inhabit, a brilliant move by a brilliant artist.
Read MoreBy Harry Kassen — Hello and welcome back to Comics Anatomy. For this installment, I thought I’d write about one of my all time favorite comics: Gotham Central. Gotham Central is much beloved by comics fans and is a truly amazing comic for a wide variety of reasons. Chief among these reasons is its sense of tone. Like any good crime story, Gotham Central is steeped in atmosphere. From the very beginning it tells you that it’s a story about police first, and Batman second.
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