David Hine

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Comics carry a sense of physical prestige. When you pick one up from the shelf, it usually isn’t just lying there, blowing in the wind – it’s often wrapped up in a too-tight plastic bag, boarded with a thin piece of cardboard to ensure you don’t crease a single hair on Superman’s immaculate head. The experience is designed to make you consider each comic as a precious item, something best kept mint so you can sell it and get your grandkids through college in a few decades from now. The thing is, sometimes we need to be reminded that comics are not immaculate, and actually there’s no reason not to mess them up a little in the course of reading. Some of the most enjoyable moments in comics over the last few years have been those moment where the storytellers step back, wave an arm towards the story they’re telling, and say, “Hey, let’s take a pair of scissors to this, eh?”

One of the things I love most about Spider-Man (and let me tell you, there's a lot I love about Spider-Man) is how adaptable the character is to different situations, settings, and even different characters taking on the role. Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott and an assembled team of writers and artists are picking up that ball and running with it in the upcoming "Spider-Verse" event, and they're getting a little bit of a head start with what they're calling "Edge of Spider-Verse," a series of one-issue stories that introduce readers to the various iterations of Spider Men and Women. Marvel has released solicitations for the first three issues of the five-issue series, which feature Spider-Man Noir, a new spin on Spider-Woman, and a futuristic Spider-Man who wears a helmet (and who probably isn't from 2099).

The factors that make a comic appealing are an entirely subjective and strange thing. Sometimes the thrill of the unknown is what does it, and at other times, it's seeing something familiar performed in a new or particularly efficient way...

Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #4 by David Hine and Shaky Kane is is out this week from Image Comics, and it's the cut-up issue you may remember from that bold/heretical PR stunt where the creators cut out panels from an original copy of Fantastic Four #2...

To illustrate the concept behind an upcoming issue of their excellent Image comic, Bulletproof Coffin, creators David Hine and Shaky Kane have taken a pair of scissors and cut an issue of Fantastic Four #2 into pieces. COLLECTIVE GASP! The pair removed individual panels from the classic Jack Kirby comic and placed them in different order as a demonstration of cut-up technique, wherein components o

David Hine and Shaky Kane's Bulletproof Coffin from Image Comics is, wait for it, "the best comic you aren't reading." Yeah, I know, you've heard that before. Me too. But the truth is, Bulletproof Coffin is one of those comics that comes along rarely, where script and art are working in perfect concert to tell one story, and that story is something worth paying attention to...

Press Release It's a world of pain, sorrow, obsession and damnation. It's a world that twists and pollutes the lives of all that enter it. It's David Hine's STRANGE EMBRACE and a newly colored version is heading your way this May from Image Comics and Active Images ...