KISS has a long history in comic books, having appeared in a number of publications from Marvel (detailed here and here) and starring in series from Image Comics and Platinum Studios. The band’s appearance lends itself well to the comic…
Tiny Titans: 50 Issues of Awesomeness
Anyone who’s ever been to a playground knows that preschool kids love superheroes. Look in a major toy store, clothing store, or Halloween costume catalog and you’ll see that 3 year old boys all want to be Spiderman, Superman, Batman……
Image Comics In Review: Peter Panzerfaust, No Place Like Home, Gladstone’s School For World Conquerors, Alpha Girl, Li’l Depressed Boy, Last Of The Greats
Image Comics is on a serious winning streak right now, with a catalog that boasts a wild variety of titles, each strange and unique and totally different that all the others. You see, Image operates as a forum for creator-owned…
Pop Music Comics: Eddie Campbell’s The Ace Rock ‘n’ Roll Club
In the late 70s, Eddie Campbell wrote and drew a handful of short stories tracing the ins and outs of a group of Teddy Boys in Southend. He called them “In The Days Of The Ace Rock ‘n’ Roll Club”,…
Single Reviews: Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz/André 3000/James Murphy, Noel Gallagher and Amorphous Androgynous, Evitan, Mark Stewart vs. Primal Scream, Future Of The Left
Arctic Monkeys- R U Mine? This track just showed up out of nowhere last week, a stand-alone single that appeared on YouTube and iTunes and instantly lodged itself in my head on an endless loop. It’s full of the group’s…
Pop Music Comics: The 90s, part four. Cheap Trick, The Elvis Mandible
In 1990, powerpop band Cheap Trick released a new album entitled Busted, and they partnered with Marvel to release a comic as part of their publicity campaign. A promo-only item, it’s an eight-page black and white pamphlet that tells the…