C is for Commentary: Previews #283
Dark Horse Presents #13
Westfield’s Josh Crawley looks at books in the new Previews including Dark Horse’s Dark Horse Presents #13, DC/Vertigo’s American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares #1, and Marvel’s Defenders#7.
Westfield’s Josh Crawley looks at books in the new Previews including Dark Horse’s Dark Horse Presents #13, DC/Vertigo’s American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares #1, and Marvel’s Defenders#7.
COMIC BOOKS THAT TIME FORGOT: Defenders for a Day!
Defenders: Tournament of Heroes
KC Carlson talks about his love of Marvel’s Defenders and focuses on the “Defenders For a Day” story soon to be reprinted in Defenders: Tournament of Heroes.
10 (OR MORE) THINGS I LURVE ABOUT DECEMBER 2011 COMICS (AND THINGS)
Flex Menatllo: Man of Muscle Mystery
KC Carlson takes a look at some of the cool stuff in the new Previews.
C is for Commentary: Previews #277
Muse Hardcover
Westfield’s Josh Crawley looks at some of the coolness in the new Previews including Marvel’s Defenders#1, Humanoids’ Muse HC, and Image’s The Red Wing Trade Paperback.
KC Column: The Never-Ending Story Part 1
by KC Carlson
Though we may be inundated by it in current superhero comic books, long-form serialized storytelling is nothing new.
The idea of telling a long-form storyline as a series of chapters originally dates back to somewhere between the mid-8th and the mid-13th century. The work in question? One Thousand and One Nights, more colloquially known in English as the Arabian Nights. They are actually a series of independent stories gathered together with a framing device, but as originally told, each story was shared over a period of nights, including some kind of “cliffhanger” ending, which would be resolved the following night. Some of the more famous of the stories include “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, and “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor”, all of which are probably much better known to several generations of American children as the basis for three very memorable (and historically important) Popeye the Sailor cartoons.