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ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
ComicsAlliance Gift Guide: What To Buy For Young Readers
The holiday season is fast approaching, and that means it's time to hit the shops! If you're looking for inspiration for gifts for all the important people in your life, ComicsAlliance has put together a series of guides centered on different themes and personalities! It's likely that everyone read some form of comics as a child, and for many of us it's where our passion for the medium first began. If you've got a young reader in your life who can't get enough of comic books, or you're ready to start them on that adventure, we've put together a list of some of the best titles for young readers available to buy today.
On The Cheap: 'Green Arrow' Comixology Anniversary Sale
On The Cheap: 'Green Arrow' Comixology Anniversary Sale
On The Cheap: 'Green Arrow' Comixology Anniversary Sale
This week, DC Comics is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Green Arrow who debuted alongside Aquaman (whose anniversary was celebrated last week) in More Fun Comics #73. To celebrate seventy five years of the Emerald Archer, Comixology has a week long sale featuring a host of his defining runs, so you can stock up on classic stories while you wait for Arrow to return for its fifth season.
Chip Kidd: Remixing Batman And Designing Super-Solutions
Chip Kidd: Remixing Batman And Designing Super-Solutions
Chip Kidd: Remixing Batman And Designing Super-Solutions
Chip Kidd is a one of American publishing's foremost graphic designers, a respected novelist and author in his own right, and a life-long comic book fan. He's worked with DC Comics on a number of different projects over the years, writing histories, creating logos, designing books, and even authoring stories like 2012's Batman: Death By Design graphic novel with Dave Taylor. Recently, he produced a "remix" of the first-ever Batman story (which was originally slated to be published in DC's "Detective Comics #27 Special Edition" giveaway, but ended up as a feature in the deluxe hardcover Batman: A Celebration Of 75 Years instead). While at San Diego Comic-Con last month, we got a few minutes to drop by DC's booth and talk with Kidd about Batman, his design work, and his current (and upcoming) projects.
'Batman: A Celebration Of 75 Years' Lives Up To Its Title
'Batman: A Celebration Of 75 Years' Lives Up To Its Title
'Batman: A Celebration Of 75 Years' Lives Up To Its Title
As much as I love Batman, and I think the record will show that I love Batman a whole heck of a lot, I haven't really been looking forward to sitting down and cracking open the new Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years hardcover. Last year's Superman anniversary hardcover was a disaster of revisionist history, 300 pages that would have you believe that one of the world's greatest superheroes did nothing for seven and a half decades but cry. With that in mind, I had no idea what DC Comics was going to do with Batman. If you'd asked me to bet on it, I would've put good money on a prediction that they'd craft a narrative that acknowledged Batman only as a scowling vigilante, consumed with vengeance and every bit as crazy as the villains he fought. But it turns out I didn't have to worry. The Batman hardcover is exactly what it says it is -- a celebration of Batman across different eras, with a roster of stories that highlights one of the character's true strengths: How well he works across different kinds of stories.
Bill Finger Finally Gets A Credit For The First Batman Comic
Bill Finger Finally Gets A Credit For The First Batman Comic
Bill Finger Finally Gets A Credit For The First Batman Comic
In case you don't mark your calendar solely by events related to Batman -- which is increasingly difficult since Year One was 22 years before Zero Year, with Zero Hour somewhere in between -- you might need a friendly reminder that DC has declared July 23 to be Batman Day, part of its celebration of 75 years of the Dark Knight. To mark the occasion, the publisher's putting out a free special edition of Detective Comics #27, containing material from both the 1939 original and the New 52 offering from earlier this year. What makes this issue really significant, however, is that to my knowledge, it's the first time Batman's co-creator, Bill Finger, has received a cover credit for the original Batman story.
Brad Meltzer Explains How He Assembled ‘Heroes for My Son’ [Interview]
Brad Meltzer Explains How He Assembled ‘Heroes for My Son’ [Interview]
Brad Meltzer Explains How He Assembled ‘Heroes for My Son’ [Interview]
A new book by Brad Meltzer hits the stands today titled "Heroes For My Son," a new prose collection where Meltzer has put together stories about the heroes who best exemplify the values and choices he wants for his son. And despite Meltzer's work in the superhero genre on comics like "Identity Crisis" and a recent run on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," these are heroes o
Novelists and Comics Creators Petition Brad Meltzer to Give Up Writing
Novelists and Comics Creators Petition Brad Meltzer to Give Up Writing
Novelists and Comics Creators Petition Brad Meltzer to Give Up Writing
Novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer ("Identity Crisis") has had his detractors over the years, and as the internet is the natural habitat of hateration, we've seen most of the criticisms about his work coming from message boards or bloggers -- but as would be expected, very little public vitriol from his fellow creators...
A Slayer’s Superpower Shout-Outs: The Radtacular References of ‘Buffy’ #32
A Slayer’s Superpower Shout-Outs: The Radtacular References of ‘Buffy’ #32
A Slayer’s Superpower Shout-Outs: The Radtacular References of ‘Buffy’ #32
There's a lot to like about this week's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" #32 and it has plenty to do with its title: "Buffy Has F#©$ing Superpowers." Brad Meltzer and Georges Jeanty have a mastery of the book's cast and its never truer than when the Whedonisms start to soar as Buffy experiments with her newfound abilities at the behest of a very enthusiastic Xander. Me...
Turns Out President Obama Is A Vampire Slayer Named Twilight
Turns Out President Obama Is A Vampire Slayer Named Twilight
Turns Out President Obama Is A Vampire Slayer Named Twilight
I'm a pretty casual Buffy fan. I watched the final season kind of in passing (but I did see it all, by golly), I admittedly didn't catch much of "Angel," and I've been a little behind on the trades from the latest Dark Horse comics. So finding out that there's been a mysterious masked slayer called "Twilight" in the mix of late is news to me - and wonderful news at that... Read
Justice League of America #12 Goes Back to Press
Justice League of America #12 Goes Back to Press
Justice League of America #12 Goes Back to Press
Press Release JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12, the final issue of the new series written by bestselling author Brad Meltzer, has sold out and is going back to press for a new, second printing. "Issue #12 seemed so far away when we first started talking about it," says Group Editor Eddie Berganza ...

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