We have nearly eight thousand words for you this week, and we hope you’ll give them all a shot. Rob Liefeld’s had a big year thus far, and Shawn Starr and I felt it appropriate to hold a ...
No main essay from me this week, but no fear, Comics Should Be Good contributor and one half of the Splash Page duo, Chad Nevett, has dropped by to discuss Ed Brubaker and Warren Pleece’s Deade...
I’m a skeptic by nature and as such I’ve done my fair share of eye rolling when people make claims in terms of the extraterrestrial or the supernatural but that doesn’t mean I like ...
A few years ago I was in my local shop perusing the bookshelves with nothing really jumping out at me. The shop’s owner whom I had become friendly with noticed my bored expression and asked wha...
Over the course of reading Rapid City #11 I indadvertedly began thinking about the career of Brian Michael Bendis, and once I was done thinking about it I realized that wasn’t necessarily a goo...
I got a chance to speak with Sam Rhodes and Bryant Dillion of Fanboy Comics and new OGN Something Animal about their process, multi-media and, of course, comics in general. Spandexless: First off, ca...
Okay, maybe Annie Szabla isn’t out to steal the head of a dead man but if she’s trying to get an award named after the aforementioned tomb inhabitant then I think she’s well on her ...
Upfront: I wasn’t impressed by this book. But as with all bad reviews, please keep in mind that this is one reviewer’s opinion. In fact, I know that other writer’s at this site (and...
Shooters delivers a story set against the Iraq War of a soldier who survives a “friendly fire” incident. The dude eventually drags on, finds he can’t land a decent job, losses his w...
I really hate bugs. I know… I KNOW. But it’s one of the only super stereotypically ”girly” things I do, so let me have this. But the larger point is that SINCE I hate bugs, I ...
This one was frustrating and somewhat daunting, but I feel like maybe, just maybe, I came out OK. My clock reads 3:24 am as I type this brief intro, and still I feel, as I’ve felt all week, som...
God high school sucked. That’s all I’ve got to say about that, now let’s get on to this review. Pictures for Sad Children is one of those comics. I don’t know what set of comi...
There’s a lot more original Cold War material out there in comic book form than I originally thought. I mean, I knew it was a pretty popular subject and I’ve reviewed a few based on the s...
“I’m no rat. In a town this bent, who’s there to rat to anyway?” - Jim Gordon, Batman Begins It’s fitting to start this off with a quote from a modern crime film because David Lloyd’s Kic...
God, you know what I always hated about zombie flicks? There was never any explanation why any military force on earth wasn’t prepared for them. The protagonist always wakes up and finds the wo...
“Amateurs borrow, professionals steal,” or so they say. What they really mean by that phrase is that mankind ran out of story telling ideas somewhere around the first recitation of Gilgam...
As your reading this, I’m probably taking my last final exam, wrapping up another semester of college. Two years in the university setup. Two more ahead of me (hopefully no more). A lot happene...
ZUB GET YOUR GUN | Skullkickers teases the upcoming issue, where we begin to learn the secret of Baldy’s gun. [via Bleeding Cool] LUTHER AT LARRY’S | Larry’s Comics in Lowell, Massa...
Like I’ve said before, there’s a loosely knit community of webcomic artists that show up at various east-coast (and occasionally west-coast) conventions who know each other to varying deg...
CRY BABY CRY | The Beat highlights a spectacularly sad collection, The Cartoon Crier, with some great talents from the indie comics scene. [via The Beat] COMICS ON KICKSTARTER | IGN has a great round...
NOTE: THIS REVEIW WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THE GI JOE COBRA SERIES AS A WHOLE AND AS SUCH THE REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. *** This is going to be my final issue of Cobra. Actuall...
CON ARTISTS | Bleeding Cool has the scoop on a number of talents that will be in attendance at the first ever MorrisonCon in Las Vegas. Notably absent; one bald fiction-mancer. [via Bleeding Cool] MI...
You know, when you look at it out of context, a bunch of firefighters and EMTs standing around after a building fire chilling and joking while dead bodies get shipped off from the scene of the fire t...
KICK STARTED | Image has announced that The Image Revolution, the Kickstarted movie from the makers of the Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison documentaries has been fully funded. [via Image] YOUR MIND I...
I will be there working at table K13 (Fanfare/Ponent Mon) and Spandexless contributor Adam Tyrrell will be there with his brand new comic, No Place Like Home at table E10. Find us and say hi! Visit m...
As you all know, we here at Spandexless are huge supporters of the comic book medium and we do our level best to showcase books outside the traditional superhero set of titles. However, with the adve...
Dick Tracy. You remember that stuff? I do. I had this read-along comic book that was really cool. And the wristwatch! So awesome. You had a tape you could play and listen to that narrated the book. T...
Okay so when I first saw Fistful of Dollars it was like two years after Yojimbo, so about a third of the way through I noticed my hand involuntarily slapping my forehead and went “huh, thatR...
It’s been a long week for the comics internet. The Before Watchmen debate continues to rage its angry rage, and I can’t seem to escape. Everyone’s a martyr these days, taking public...
GOON SELLS OUT | While we here at Spandexless do enjoy a superhero book once and a while, we are always interested in seeing some mature criticism of the genre. When we’re tired of that, we loo...
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