(AfroGamers.com) Kurt Busiek’s Astro City–with artwork by Brent Anderson and Alex Ross–is my overall favorite superhero series. It’s a superhero comic done with a linear timeline but with this large breathing world. Trust me, I’ll get into both of those since they go hand-in-hand. Let’s dive into this intro because we’ll ...
(AfroGamers.com) Spider-Man is one of if not the most popular Marvel character of all time. Mind you, I said of all time and not like 2018. Now, you could say Iron Man but even though he had devoted fans, things didn’t really start to pop for Tony until the movies came ...
(AfroGamers.com) Fox Kids in the early 1990s was a fun time for cartoons–as I’ve mentioned before. One of the gems in its program block was X-Men: The Animated Series. Fox just called it X-Men but like the Batman show it had at the same time, distinctions have to be made. Of ...
(AfroGamers.com) Astro City had a number storylines prior to it taking the more mainstream issue-based approach. Prior to this, the series’ issues were written more with being a part of a larger graphic novel than to be read from month to month. Of the storylines featured in the first run of ...
(AfroGamers.com) Vertigo Comics’ American Vampire puts the writing team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque together for one hell of a vampire tale. The first issue dropped in 2010 and ran into 2012. This story spans the ages starting around the Old West, bleeding into Golden Era Hollywood, and ...
(AfroGamers.com) Black comics have always been around for years. Talented writers, illustrators, and fictional superheroes have dominated the black comic book space for a long time. In this post, we have listed 10 of the best black comics you must read in 2018. Abbott The black comic book Abbott will be ...
(AfroGamers.com) The last time when we talked Judge Dredd it was the short story arc The Robot Wars. It was a story of humans mistreating robots, the robots rebelling, a few robots who loved being enslaved to humans helping the most cold-hearted cop in Mega City-1, and one robot getting his ...
(AfroGamers.com) Between 1993 and 1997, Milestone Comics was the major imprint that addressed the lack of characters of colors in mainstream comics. There were other companies around at the time that tackled this such as Big City Comics with Brother Man but Milestone tends to get the kudos since its a ...
(AfroGamers.com) Todd McFarlane’s Spawn is one of those early 1990s comics that came out at the right point in time. It’s almost too “Xtreme 90s” when you look back on those 1992-1996 issues but it fit pop culture at the time. In the U.S, music was dominated by grunge, alternative rock, ...
(AfroGamers.com) When it comes to comics and the screen, I’ve always been a fan of television adaptation over film. Some might say “What?! TV over film?!” Yes, TV over film. While movies allow for these amazing visuals and makes for an awesome blockbuster experience, sometimes the story suffers. Looking at superhero ...