FORWARD Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. Sorry it’s a little, but we figure it’s better late than never. But just like 2010′s list, WCBR’s report card is a list of titles that we enjoyed and disliked for the entire year 2011. To encourage debate amongst the writers (and eventually you [...]
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Going into this assignment, I was excited (obviously!), but also a tiny bit nervous. I’ve never been to a con before and–although I felt I knew something of what to expect thanks to all the reports I’ve heard and read for other con goers (especially the Comic Geek Speak podcast), I still wasn’t quite sure [...]
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The Story: It’s Marvel and Capcom villains assembled! Dr Doom has joined forces with Resident Evil’s Albert Wesker to unite their universes and conquer both of them. With this ungodly union of evil, it’s up to the heroes of Marvel to team-up with Capcom’s finest to save the day. About The Game: This has been [...]
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I’ve become a big fan of the Comixology app on my iPhone. They launch their new products on Wednesdays just like a direct market store, so it’s become something of a Wednesday ritual for me to fire up the Comixology app and wait 3-4 minutes while it updates over the 3G connection. It’s always fun [...]
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Intellectual property is an important part of comic books and is central to many a raging message board war over items like “creator-owned” versus company-owned and legal disputes such as those between Marvel and Jack Kirby’s heirs or DC and Alan Moore. In my last article on this subject we explored the world of copyright [...]
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Forward Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. In essence, this report card is a list of offerings we’ve enjoyed for the entire year 2010. There will probably be a lot to debate about– who got snubbed, or who really deserved it… So let us know if we’re out of our minds, [...]
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By: Robert Schnakenberg (commentator) The Story: An oversized edition that showcases 100 of DC comics most famous covers. What’s Good: This oversized 11″ x 14″ book is really a history lesson. In terms of format, each right-hand page has a notable cover from a DC comic. Then when you flip the page, you can read [...]
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As comic book fans, we hear lots of discussions about “creator-owned comics”, which creator has “optioned the film rights” to his/her most recent comic book or arguments between a publisher and creator about who “owns the rights” to a certain comic title. What are these “rights”? How do they work? And why is it useful [...]
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Comic podcasts are great. If you spend a lot of time in your car, otherwise commuting, exercising, etc. they can really make that time spent more enjoyable. There are a LOT of comic podcasts out there and this list is by no means meant to be all-inclusive. These are just the ones that I happen [...]
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Welcome to a new feature here at WCBR, which will hopefully resurface periodically. Here we highlight series that we reviewers feel are not getting the readers, or the attention, that they deserve. These are books that we’ve been particularly enjoying. These are DC/Marvel books that should be in the top ten, or at least the [...]
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Book of the Month: Action Comics #893 Even if it lacked Pete Woods, this book’s main feature was all kinds of awesome. Cornell’s dialogue once again shines as some of the best dialogue currently on offer at DC. It’s witty and genuinely funny and only makes the switcharoo plot all the more palatable. This comic [...]
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DS: Hey SoldierHawk! I heard a fangirlish squeal of joy all the way in Canada. What’s that all about? SH: Hey DS! That would have been me, reading that the new Batwoman monthly series–which I have been not-so-patiently waiting for since Rucka and Williams’ run on Detective Comics ended–finally has a release date! According to [...]
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Book of the Month: Ex Machina #50 Despite a really solid month of comics, it’s impossible for me to give this award to any other book. This was the perfect conclusion to one of the greatest modern comics of all time. It was heavy, tragic, and effective in essentially very arena that a comic can [...]
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I was lucky enough to get a couple of free passes to an advance screening for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on a Monday night and, honestly, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. As soon as the film begins, it’s clear that it’s unique. With its dynamic cuts, speedy movements, and continual little visual [...]
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FORWARD Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. In essence, this report card is a list of offerings we’ve enjoyed and disliked for the entire year 2009. There was definitely a lot of debate over each editor’s pick, and in the end we just decided to let everyone have their say. Let [...]
Filed under: Features | Tagged: Batman and Robin, Batman: Earth One, Batwoman, Bendis, Best Comics in 2009, Captain America Reborn, Comic Book Review, Detective Comics, Gary Frank, Geoff Johns, Green Arrow and Black Canary, Greg Rucka, Haunt, Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, Hulk, Incognito, Jason Aaron, Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted, Nic Klein, Powers, Sweet Tooth, The Unwritten, Todd McFarlane, Tony Stark | 8 Comments »
It was around this time last year that our esteemed founder, Jason Montes, first gave us the heads up on the rising cost of comics. “Starting in January,” Jason emailed the staff of WCBR, “Marvel’s going to raise the price of the majority of their comics to $3.99. We need to follow this, because this [...]
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X-Men #1 By Stan Lee (writer), Jack Kirby (artist), Paul Reinman (inker) A few comments before the review: I started sharing my love of superheroes with my 4-year-old son a few months ago. At a recent comic con in Toronto, I bought him the X-Men Omnibus Volume 1 (collecting issues #1-31 of Uncanny). He loves [...]
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Jeremy Forson is a Bay Area artist whose works have appeared in: Juxtapoz, Spectrum, True Eye, Proteus Mag, and most recently, the cover for Boom! Studios’ “Poe.” I recently caught his show “The Lost Fight,” and was treated to a variety of amazing pieces on canvas and wood panels. The general theme of the series [...]
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Last weekend, I attended Fan Expo 2009 in Toronto, Canada, a convention featuring science fiction, comics, anime, horror, and games. I paid the most attention to the comics stream (obviously) and attended panels by five publishers and sat in on two sessions by Len Wein (creator of Wolverine, some of the New X-Men, Swamp Thing, [...]
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This is going to be the first column in what I hope will be an ongoing discussion on how incredibly fucking stupid comics can be. That’s right: Stupid. Fucking. Crap. Because after all, if Sturgeon’s Law is true and 90% of everything really is crap, then it’s inevitable that we are all fanboys sailing on [...]
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The following list is my picks for the best first issues, based on comics that have been released during by tenure as a hobbyist, i.e the past twenty years. They are from series that were or are ongoing series, not minis. The only factor in choosing these books was simple: Greatness. 1. Y The Last [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Features, Image Comics, Marvel Comics | Tagged: All Star Superman, Batman, Batman and Robin, Brian Bendis, Brian K. Vaughan, Bryan Hitch, Corey Walker, first issues, Four Eyes, Frank Quietley, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, Image Comics, INVINCIBLE, Joe Kelly, John Cassady, Mark Bagely, Mark Millar, Max Fiumara, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Pia Guerra, Planetary, Preacher, Robert Kirkman, Spider-Man, Steve Dillon, Superman, The Ultimates, The Unwritten, The Walking Dead, Tony Moore, Ultimate Spider-Man, Warren Ellis, Y: The Last Man | 7 Comments »
Well, if you’ve read my review from a while back, you know I’ve been wishing upon a star, specifically a certain star on a certain iconic shield, for Steve Rogers’ return. Now, according to Marvel.com the real Cap is coming back. Great news! Not to mention Ed Brubaker will be penning this tale and Bryan Hitch is [...]
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Today, I had the honor of meeting artist Gene Colan and legendary inkers Steve Leialoha and Joe Rubenstein at Lee’s Comics in Mountain View, California. As many of you may or may not know, Gene Colan is one of the key artists behind the early runs of Iron Man, Daredevil, Howard the Duck, and Tomb [...]
Filed under: Features, News | Tagged: Daredevil, Gene Colan, Howard the Duck, Iron Man, Joe Rubenstein, Steve Leialoha, Tomb of Dracula | 3 Comments »
The Comics Podcast Theme Event returns for the full month of October! By Peter Rios WCBR has teamed up with the comic book podcasting community to present a special event. With US Presidential elections right around the corner, over 20 comic podcasts will be joining together to feature episodes dedicated to the topic of Politics [...]
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