glory

In the final day of our fantasy draft, our writers pick a spy, a magician, a feminist icon, and another Green Lantern, and they move away from Marvel and DC to pick some great heroes from beyond the Big Two to round out their teams.

The brave hero. The wicked villain. These archetypes, and the tales of their struggles, lie at the heart of the comic book medium, providing the basis for many of our favorite stories. While some may scoff at these aspirational stories, we know that they can be empowering, uplifting, and even inspiring. That's often especially true when the hero at the heart of the story is a woman. When women slay monsters, the stories are never just about protecting the kingdom and preserving the status quo. When women slay monsters, they challenge their own oppression, they overturn expectations, and they seize control of the future. When women slay monsters, they change the world. These are some of our favorite comic book stories that celebrate that idea.

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is in theaters worldwide right now, and whether you loved or hated it, it's certainly an interesting take on The Caped Crusader and The Man of Tomorrow. A great many independent comics have taken the core ideas of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and other iconic characters and given them a unique spin that could only be explored outside the confines of DC Comics mainstream continuity. If you're looking for superhero stories with a bit of an edge, we've got five of the best to recommend to you.

Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell's Glory is nearing its end. We've covered the series extensively here on ComicsAlliance, and spoke to Keatinge and Campbell about its upcoming conclusion with issue #34. With just three issues left, there are still questions that need to be answered for Glory and her team...

The countdown to the final issue of Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell's 12-issue run on Glory begins this Wednesday at what's more or less the crack of 2013, just in time for the Rob Liefeld-created heroine's 20th anniversary year. From the looks of the latest preview of Glory #31, turning approximately 20 comes just in time for what's shaping up to be the character's definitive arc...

Of all the books that were part of the excellent Extreme Studios relaunch this year, Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell's Glory was far and away my favorite. The epic story, the beautifully drawn battles, the quiet character moments, all of them combined to make it one of my favorite comics of the year...

In Glory #26 by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell, the titular heroine helps a young girl named Riley learn to defend herself in order to prepare for the coming war. Read more for a six-page preview of the issue, out today from Image comics with a totally sweet cover by CA favorite Ulises Farinas...

This week on War Rocket Ajax, up-and-coming writer Joe Keatinge joins us to talk about how he came up reading comics in the '90s, and whether or not his love of pro wrestling impacted the violence of comics like Glory and Hell Yeah -- and you can listen to the whole show, right here at ComicsAlliance...

When ComicsAlliance first decided to devote a February fortnight to highlighting great sexy comics and the great artists who produce them, Ross Campbell was the first creator I thought of. Not only has the cartoonist a master of the female form, he's also one of the few artists who celebrates that form in the myriad of ways it appears in reality, from the curvy girls of his Wet Moon graphic novel

When Image Comics announced last year that it was doing a full-on relaunch of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios comics, the most surprising thing for me wasn't that this was something that was happening in the year 2012, but how much I was looking forward to it...