Blackest Night

I complained, recently, about people not being honest about cheesecake, and how people should just own up to using boobs for the sake of boobs. Well, my wish is apparently the internet's command. The latest internet controversy stars some familiar faces for those of you who like to stand ringside at comics blogosphere brouhahas, including Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, Ragnell (formerly of the Wh

Aw yeah, it's the day after Thanksgiving (in America) and things are getting real in the big box stores, malls, mom-and-pop shops and E-tailers across the cosmos. We at ComicsAlliance are still recovering from our awesome more-or-less day off yesterday, which means we'll have an abbreviated posting schedule on this, the "Blackest Day" of the year: So enjoy what could very well be your ex

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- comic books hitting the shelves this week. BACK ON THE CASE - Powers 1 It's been two years since we last saw an issue of "Powers," the superhero police procedural from writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming...

Spoiler alert: Martian Manhunter is dying this week. Just kidding, guys. Martian Manhunter has been dead for quite a while. What he is doing, however, is returning from the great beyond in action figure form, courtesy of the second wave of 'Blackest Night' action figures from DC Direct...

Most every contemporary DC Comics reader is familiar with the Blue Beetle legacy. There's a mystical (alien) scarab passed from Dan Garret to Ted Kord (who it did nothing for) to finally Jamie Reyes who kicks it armor style. Of course, there's one Blue Beetle you may not have known about unless you watched a lot of "The Electric Company," an educational children's show that ran during th

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- comic books hitting the shelves this week. Of all God's monsters, noblest by far is the zombie. Not the vampire, whose snooty upper-class bearing, angsty brooding and shameless trend-chasing renders it insufferable...

Anyone who follows Geoff Johns' Twitter feed (especially in the wee hours of the morning) knows that the "Green Lantern" and "Flash" writer's love of comics can only be rivaled by his seeming addiction to sugar. Slurpees and candy bars are self-proclaimed favorites, but ultimately it was Johns' love of breakfast cereal that inspired one of the finest comic book/mascot mash-ups

In a recent interview, Alan Moore criticized the dearth of new ideas in modern superhero comics, and then went after DC writer Geoff Johns by claiming that his "Blackest Night" storyline was a ripoff of Moore's old "Tales of the Green Lantern" story...

Halloween may still be many, many weeks away, but thanks to Geoff Johns' so-hot-it's-melting-comic-shops "Blackest Night" storyline spanning the DC Comics Universe, the many rings of the Green Lantern world are practically street wear among comic fans...

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- books coming out this week.THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY GIFT IS ADAMANTIUM, RIGHT? "The Marvels Project" #1 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. It's a concise piece of wisdom that was first uttered by none other than Albert Einstein...