Oh hey! Looks like I forgot to do my mandatory self-promotion. Sorry, everybody. I know you were waiting for it.
Anyway, today at ComicsAlliance, I reviewed the SyFy Channel’s Alphas, a new show about super-heroes created by a guy who apparently wants to make it abundantly clear that he has read a lot of Marvel comics. I never thought I’d say it, but this thing could use a little bit of The Cape in it.
Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve got a rundown of one of comics’ strangest stories: a pitch for a Dazzler TV special/movie written in four days by Jim Shooter where KISS fights the Village People because of Rodney Dangerfield. It is somehow even crazier than it sounds.
It’s that time again: Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve got my monthly roundup of June’s most depressing Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft strips!
I have to admit, though, this month’s installments weren’t that bad. I mean, they’re another litany of tragedy for the characters, but since I’ve come to enjoy seeing Les be miserable over the past year, I was actually pretty happy to read ’em. Crankshaft on the other hand… yeesh.
This week, Eric Powell’s The Goon returns from a hiatus of almost two years, and I’m pretty excited. So excited, in fact, that today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve run down 13 of my favorite moments from the series thus far!
There’s zombie chimps, unholy bastards and of course, crushing despair that even Tom Batiuk wouldn’t smirk at. Everything that makes that comic great.
This week in Ask Chris, fancy Yankee city slicker Aaron (of Awesomed By Comics fame) asks me to list off my five favorite super-heroes from the South!
And that has virtually guaranteed that I’m going to be having barbecue and hush puppies (or as my local gas station calls them, “corn dodgers”) for dinner. (And yes, I get my local barbecue from a gas station. South Cack style!)
Oh man, you guys. I think I’ve stumbled onto something big here. Something huge. Did you know that on the Internet, you can write comedy articles based around lists?! I know! It’s craaaaaaazy!
As proof of concept, I’ve put together the Top 5 Knockoffs In Comics, going through some pretty great characters who have their roots in totally biting someone else’s style. And while it might not be that obvious, I tried to make all the pictures look like they were from the packaging to bootleg flea market action figures. It’s the little things that make me happy, you know?
Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m gathering up nine titles I wish would’ve been included in DC’s relaunch, including a handful of pitches I’ve been keeping in my back pocket in case I ever get the chance to actually do whatever I want with the DC Universe. You’ll be able to tell which ones they are.