It’s been rumored for months that DC had a very large shake up coming. It’s been no secret that their sales have been less than they hoped for over the last year or so, and yesterday they announced that they…
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The Commercial Age of Comics (Part II)
In my last post I discussed how we have entered into a new age of comics, one which is defined by three increasing trends: increasing diversity, simplifying canon, and corporate synergy between print and film. None of these things in themselves…
We’re in a New Comic Book Age, and We Didn’t Even Know It (Part I)
The history of comics is a long and diverse tale spanning the majority of the 20th century. It has been divided up in various ways, but by most it’s considered to have began in 1938 with the introduction of Superman.…