Benjamin Piñeros | February 18, 2015
All major film festivals have given their verdicts, the Golden Globes have just passed and the Oscars are already in sight. The world of film of 2014 is about to close, and it seems to me like the ideal moment to establish a well thought and objective list of the best of the year. Yeah, […]
Garrett Steele | February 7, 2015
(Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published on September 10th, 2013. Part 1 can be found by following this link. The author’s coverage of the recent Daredevil trailer can be found here) So, last week, I used the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman as a flimsy excuse to catapult into my favorite comic […]
Byron Campbell | January 31, 2015
As geek icons such as Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day have amply demonstrated, tabletop gaming is sexy like never before. A medium that was once synonymous with the tedious obligations of “Family Game Night,” board games, card games and tabletop RPGs are now being played by hip twentysomethings such as Quintin Smith and Paul Dean (whose […]
Keith Hendricks | January 10, 2015
This is the third chapter of Michael Uslan and Dan Parent’s Farewell, Betty & Veronica graphic novel. The second chapter ended with the surprise that Veronica won the competition to be selected as a foreign exchange student. She manipulated people to get the edge in this victory, and her father Hiram Lodge, acknowledging to himself […]
Keith Hendricks | December 28, 2014
During some recent changes here at Nerdspan, hats were shuffled, and your new comics editor is yours truly. As the previous comics editor is an avid proponent of quality comic books, and I am likewise, this is not a change of regime but merely a transfer of the keys of office. We at Nerdspan will […]
Mackenzie and Walker | October 23, 2014
Welcome back to our ongoing coverage of Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s Lazarus. As before, if you’re keen on an insight into the creative process, you can find our interviews with the creators of Lazarus here, here and here. When we started this project we said that we would, at least, cover a year with […]
Keith Hendricks | September 2, 2014
One learns, ideally, by the Socratic method. If one is a genius, one can even talk to oneself and achieve a dizzying intellect. If one is an idiot, like Groo, one talks to oneself and ends up sinking a ship, destroying a village, and slaying those one pledged to save. Groo vs. Conan #2 is […]
Keith Hendricks | August 26, 2014
In all likelihood, if you’re under twenty-five years of age, you have likely never seen a comic like Dark Horse Presents at your comic shop. You’ve seen lots of samplers, freebies distributed from the publishers with a few pages of this comic and a few pages of that one, but a true anthology comic is […]
Keith Hendricks | August 20, 2014
In the first five pages of Starlight #5, we hear Space-boy narrate his economical origin story. When a hovercraft pileup claimed the life of one of the Brotean royal family, Space-boy’s parents were the attending physicians, and when they could not save their patient, the Broteans were sorely disappointed. In lieu of a malpractice suit, […]
Keith Hendricks | August 12, 2014
On the title spread, we are told that senso is Japanese for war, and this is no metaphor: we are told concisely the premise for the story is that “it was the final battle between Lord Hijiki and the Geishu Clan led by the adult Lord Noriyuki.” After this, the action begins with mounted samurai […]
Keith Hendricks | July 25, 2014
In the first four pages, Conan spits a wizard with his sword and saves a woman from death by sorcerous fear. Conan tells the woman that he conquers fear daily, and “fortunately, there is no one else like me.” Just as Conan is about to sing his own praises in the style of Tex Richman, […]
Keith Hendricks | July 1, 2014
While Geoffrey Warner intimidates a journalist into whitewashing both his personal history and the history of C.O.W.L., the C.O.W.L. operative Grant Marlowe is crushed by his own tween-age son’s antagonism, a loathing that paints black all his father’s accomplishments. When Grant and his partner Eclipse are called in to handle a crime boss’s superstrong henchman, […]
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