Monday, March 19, 2018

Owlgirls on Grawlix Podcast

Yeah, yeah, I know its been a while and all, but for those of you (both of you) who rather enjoyed Red Anvil Comics' Owlgirls, there is (apparently) still some interest in them. As evidenced by this recent Grawlix Podcast. The hosts talk about the book's two issues, and discuss what they liked and disliked about the book. Needless to say, they seemed to (mostly) enjoy it, and hoped that there were more issues coming.

As the writer of the series, I too hope that we can get back to this title and finish the (proposed) five-issue run of the initial story arc.

If you are interested in reading the first issue, it can be found on Amazon.



Friday, March 02, 2018

The Death of Captain Mar-Vell

So, we have just recently learned that Marvel’s film Captain Marvel — staring Brie Larson — is duethe seventh Captain Marvel (she was previously known as Ms. Marvel) in the comics, the film ignores all of that and puts Larson/Danvers as the first and only Captain.
to drop March 19, 2019.

This film deals with Captain Carol Danvers becomes Captain Marvel. Well, as we in the funnybook world know, while Carol Danvers was actually



Yes, yes, we totally understand that there are differences between the Marvel Comicbook Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are different (oh Hell, we’ve been reading Marvel Comics for most of our life, and understand that there are differences in the comicbooks themselves.) Thing is, we know the original Captain Marvel, and we remember when he died.

In fact, we wrote about it at the time in the landmark issue of Comics Collector, at the time, and still to this day, feel that it was one of the most emotional and well-written graphic novels we ever read.

Here is the article that I wrote at that time. (the article was reprinted on Bleeding Cool back on November 17, 2013)






Write what you know: Joe Martino’s The Mighty Titan

Here is yet another older article of mine that appeared  some years back  on another web page with which I am no longer associated. It has b...