Deconstructing Comics #796: Stan Mack And ‘Real Life Funnies’
If you read New York’s Village Voice newspaper between 1974 and 1995, you are probably familiar with Stan Mack‘s Real Life
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Deconstructing Comics #479 (Flashback): Some Of The Greatest Superman Stories (Or Not)
FLASHBACK! There’s no doubt that Superman is one of the most significant characters in the history of American comics. He ended
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Deconstructing Comics #219 (Flashback): ‘Asterios Polyp’
FLASHBACK! Reviews of Asterios Polyp blanket the Internet; why need we pile on? Well, for starters, to counteract all the reviewers
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Deconstructing Comics #795: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #198-200 — Bicentennial Madness
Cap and the Falcon have found the underground bunker of the aristocratic forces hoping to take over America on the
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
We have another selection of posts from the past week to share with you. Posts that proved to be our
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Deconstructing Comics #794: ‘The Ballad Of Halo Jones’ — In Color!
To mark the recent passing of artist Ian Gibson, Kumar and Dana dive into a long-overdue discussion of his masterpiece with
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Deconstructing Comics #793: ‘Berserk’ Vol. 7-8: The Battle for Doldrey
While Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is meant to feature the swordsman character Guts, in volumes 7 and 8 the focus is on
Read moreDeconstructing Comics Special: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ (2018)
Tim continues to catch up with the MCU! This film is awkward to review nearly two years after it came out,
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Deconstructing Comics #792: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #195-197 — “Kill-Derby”
Cap and Falcon are trapped in an underground bunker where elites plot to destroy the Bicentennial celebrations and take away
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Deconstructing Comics #791: Daniel Clowes’ ‘Monica’
Monica is Dan Clowes‘s richest and most rewarding book in years, combining the surrealism of early works like Like a
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Deconstructing Comics #790: ‘Social Fiction’ By Chantal Montellier
Chantal Montellier‘s Social Fiction, published by New York Review Comics with a translation by Geoffrey Brock, is a collection of
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Deconstructing Comics #789: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America And The Falcon’ #193-194 — “Madbomb”
When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, the first series he worked on starred the character that was one of
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Deconstructing Comics #291 (Flashback): ‘Monster’ — Justifiable Homicide? Pt 2
FLASHBACK! Planning a murder that you think will prevent future murders? That’s the premise — or, at least, one of
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Deconstructing Comics #290 (Flashback): ‘Nexus’ — Justifiable Homicide? Pt 1
FLASHBACK! We begin a two-review series on comics that ask hard questions about whether murder can ever be justified. This
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Deconstructing Comics #788: Alan Moore’s ‘1963’
In 1993, the Image revolution was underway, itself a result of the 1986 earthquake brought about by Alan Moore‘s Watchmen and
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Deconstructing Comics #462 (Flashback): ‘Usagi Yojimbo’
FLASHBACK! Originating out of the same ’80s black-and-white/anthropomorphic boom that brought us the Ninja Turtles, Usagi Yojimbo is one of the
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Deconstructing Comics #787: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Going
The run of Jack Kirby‘s OMAC: One-Man Army Corps was bright but short, lasting only through eight bi-monthly issues. This time,
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Deconstructing Comics #786: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Coming
One of Jack Kirby‘s late efforts at DC was OMAC: One-Man Army Corps, which focuses on “the world that’s coming”:
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Black Panther’ (2018)
Paul of To the Batpoles joins Tim and Mulele to discuss 2018’s Black Panther film, trying to separate political filmmaking
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Deconstructing Comics #785: ‘Berserk’ — The Prosaic Past
After covering the first four volumes of Kentaro Miura‘s Berserk a few months back, Tim and Kumar decided to keep going.
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Deconstructing Comics #784: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ — Wipeout
There’s a new sheriff in town in post-Great Disaster Earth: Gerry Conway took over as writer in Kamandi: The Last Boy
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Deconstructing Comices #783 Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #35-37 — Off The Deep End
Jack Kirby reaches the end of his writing run on Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth. After top-shelf stories about
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Deconstructing Comics #782: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird‘s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in 1984 as a violent, gory homage to/parody of Frank
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Deconstructing Comics #781: ‘The Hard Switch’ And ‘Pet Peeves’
This time we look once again at new books coming from British publisher Avery Hill Press. Owen D. Pomery‘s The Hard
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Deconstructing Comics #548 (Flashback): Jaime Hernandez Interview
FLASHBACK! Love and Rockets continues to impress, and in this episode Koom asks creator Jaime Hernandez some burning questions. Hernandez
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Something For The Weekend: Your Regular Dose Of Popular Posts
The weekend has come back round once more. and to help ease you into it is our regular round up
Read moreDeconstructing Comics #780: Jim Shooter Interview
Jim Shooter was Marvel Editor-in-Chief from 1978 to 1987, the era of Frank Miller‘s Daredevil, Chris Claremont‘s X-men, Secret Wars
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Deconstructing Comics #440 (Flashback): ‘The Love Bunglers’
FLASHBACK! Did you think Love & Rockets was over?! Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez continue to release new work about once
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Deconstructing Comics #305 (Flashback): ‘Love & Rockets’ — Gilbert Hernandez
FLASHBACK! In episode #300, we took a look at the sometimes wacky and cartoony Love & Rockets work of Jaime Hernandez.
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Deconstructing Comics #300 (Flashback): ‘Love & Rockets’ — Jaime Hernandez
FLASHBACK! The series Love & Rockets, featuring individual works by the Hernandez brothers, started in 1981 as a self-published magazine,
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Critiquing Comics #233: ‘The World of Tomorrow’ And ‘Prism Stalker’
In this edition, we rejoin The World of Tomorrow, a comic we discussed the first issue of five years ago! This
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