Kamen America is a character and franchise that is making a big impression on people. Partly because it started from somewhere people are willing to […]
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Comic Book Preservation: How 5 Tools Make Comics Valuable
Comic Book Preservation… turns out there’s a little more to it than just plastic bags and cardboard. I wonder if my American Shonen Jump magazines […]
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Bancho Manga: A Perspective on Delinquent Myths and Life
Bancho… depending on who you ask it means a juvenile delinquent gang leader or a modern ronin. So how did a bunch of troublemakers make […]
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Filipino Komiks: Value To Shatter Stops
Filipino Komiks pictures a nation rising to meet challenges. Each generation brings some clash to build the comic culture. From finding inspiration, mixing cultures together, […]
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Satoshi Mizukami: Challenging the Perspective
For Satoshi Mizukami, manga isn’t just about high stakes battles; but personal journeys. Whether it is character driven or changing creative gears.
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Sidekicks: Why Being a Superhero’s Intern is the Worst
Welcome to the Comic Comparisons segment where comic books have parallels. For the first jab, let’s take a look at a classic trope that Batman […]
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Superhero Archetypes: A Simplified If Instructive List
In the superhero genre, there are certain character archetypes that pop up more than others. TV Tropes tends to call these superhero expies. These are […]
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Bulletproof – Astonishing Life of a Forgotten Hero
Bulletproof from the Invincible series is a character I can never forget. The more I reread, the more I discover what makes him so compelling. From […]
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Savage Dragon: Look at Secure Quality
Savage Dragon is one of the founding Image Comics series and one of the most unique. If I could compare it to anything, it’s the […]
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Cameroonian Comics: Some Endorsed Myths Found
Cameroonian comics! Going through the digital globe, I did not expect to find this much stuff. Probably because the hype around African comic books died […]
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TeenStrike 1&2: A Double First Sampler Venture
TeenStrike 1&2 is a request I’ve been waiting on for a while. Surprisingly Dinosaur Games reached to me through (formerly known as) Twitter. …Sorry, I […]
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Myanmar Comics: Plunge Into An Emerging Media
Myanmar comics are a huge investment in cultural shifts. Maybe people are seeing just how passionate the Burmese media can be now. When two classmates […]
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Cambodian Comics: Unique and Uncommonly Found
Cambodian comics are a bigger subject than I thought. Despite not many titles making headlines, the makers show a big devotion to the art form. […]
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Jeff Smith’s Bone: Thorn’s Irresistibly Better Draft
Jeff Smith’s Bone is one of the most celebrated comics of all time. So how well did it improve over the original comic strips? Disclaimer: […]
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Lady Death Coffin Comics: Iconic, Powerful, Origins
Many people are aware of Lady Death, but most people don’t know her best stories in the Coffin Comics era. For that matter, most people […]
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Gatchaman: Galactor – Survival of the Fittest
Gatchaman: Galactor… trying really hard to be professional here. This spin-off of the main title spoils a bit of issue 2, yet I can’t deny […]
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Gridley The Hanging Tree – Selected For Trust
Gridley The Hanging Tree is the second issue of Sid Quade’s series with Funcertainty Box. In this issue, readers experience a small campaign to focus […]
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