Chris Sims
Ask Chris #332: The Masterpiece That Is Matt Wagner’s ‘Mage’
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you about Matt Wagner announcing that he's going to finish Mage? — @SuperSentaiBros
A: Like, 26? Maybe 27, but I don’t want to oversell things too much.
But yes: The most exciting piece of news to come out of Emerald City Comic-Con this …
A: Like, 26? Maybe 27, but I don’t want to oversell things too much.
But yes: The most exciting piece of news to come out of Emerald City Comic-Con this …
Take A Trip To The Relatively Murder-Free Classic Riverdale In ‘Best Of Archie 2016′ [Prev…
Something that's been overlooked pretty often since the big Archie Reboot is that the company is still publishing stories featuring the classic, gag-centric versions of the characters. It's publishing a lot of them, actually --- every single Archie Digest features a new lead story about th…
Titan Announces ‘Captain Kronos’ From Dan Abnett And Tom Mandrake
Following up on The Mummy: Palimpsest, in which Hammer's take on the classic monster was revived by Peter Milligan and Ronilson Freire, Titan will be launching a new Captain Kronos series that will continue the adventures of the cult-favorite two-sworded vampire hunting hero, from the team of D…
Aric Is Having A Bad Day In ‘X-O Manowar’ #1 [Preview]
For fifty issues, X-O Manowar was arguably the crown jewel of the Valiant Universe. It was the longest-running title, the book that introduced concepts like the Vine and even Ninjak to the larger universe, and it set the tone of smart superheroics that has defined the line ever since its relaunch. A…
‘Anno Dracula 1895: Seven Days In Mayhem’ Brings Action And Adventure To A Complicated Wor…
I don't want to oversell it or anything, but Kim Newman's Anno Dracula novels are pretty much everything I want out of literature. They're set in a world where Dracula's victory doesn't just have the immediate effect of leading the Count to control over Britain, but leads va…
Journey Through The Shadows Of Deadside With A First Look At ‘Rapture’ [Previews]
Back when they first announced it, Valiant referred to Matt Kindt and Cafu's upcoming Rapture as "Lord of the Rings for the Valiant universe." It's designed as a fantasy epic sprawling across four issues, building on the mythology of the Deadside and exploring a shadowy world of …
Capcom’s ‘Disney Afternoon Collection’ Revives The Classic Video Games Based On ‘DuckTales…
Quick: What is objectively the greatest piece of instrumental music ever composed? Got it? Okay, well, if you said anything other than Yoshihiro Sakaguchi's "The Moon" from the DuckTales video game for NES, then I am sorry to inform you that you are wrong. Compared to that 96-second l…
Hedging Your Bets #21: Worlds Unite, Part One
With almost 300 issues in the core series, Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog stands as the longest-running uninterrupted American monthly comic book that's currently being published. In Hedging Your Bets, I attempt to get up to speed on Sonic the Hedgehog, challenging the odds to hopefully make …
Bizarro Back Issues: Crisis Of The Calendar Man! (1985)
The Batman of the '80s was certainly skewing darker than the previous eras, but that was also a time where all the leftovers from the Silver Age were still more or less directing the story. That's how you get lengthy sagas like Batman having a custody battle over Jason Todd against a strai…
The Blossom Twins And Pete Woods Wreak Havoc On Riverdale In ‘Archie’ #18 [Interview]
In this week's Archie #18, the rebooted Archie universe is getting a few pretty notable additions. First, Cheryl and Jason Blossom --- having already appeared in the last arc as Veronica attended a boarding school --- are making their way to Riverdale with designs on, well, pretty much destroyi…