Comics

I don’t know about you, but this week, I need a little escapism. Oh hell … I need a LOT of escapism this week! Well, that’s the segue for this week’s comic pull list. I find that comics are a far more efficient medium for escapism than any other. A …

Revenge is like deep dish pizza. It tastes great in the beginning, but eventually, your stomach burns with regret. Still, it’s a powerful emotional motivator and so many stories are built around it. I’m okay with that though, because in the end, and I think a lot of people share …

Just what in the forgotten wastelands of Comic-dom am I going to write about this week? If you’ve been following my weekly column, I decide upon a theme and select Wednesday comics that fit that theme as my pull list for the week. This week, it’s a bit of a …

Life can be so complicated sometimes. If anyone ever asks you about the secret of life, it’s prioritization. In order to do the things we want to do, we have to finish what we have to do first. It seems overly simple, but you’d be surprised how easy it is …

Pop Mythology contributor John Kirk interviews one of the most popular comic book writers today, Tom King, former CIA officer and family man extraordinaire.

'The Magic Order' #4 arrives just in time to get the Halloween season off to a deliciously gloomy start.

I’m into mindless, blind rage this week. It’s been a bad week at work and I’ve lost my favourite fountain pen. So, I’m hoping there will be some stories for me to sink my teeth into and vicariously enjoy as I desperately need some vicious payback. Sometimes, I’m a petty, …

'Champions' #24 has as strong a portrayal of a school shooting as you are likely to see in a comic.

We’re all creatures of habit in one way or another. Why should comic readers be any different? I’m back to my own habits now, settling into a familiar routine. But Wednesdays are forever though. New comic books come and go, but I find myself drawn to the same old patterns, …

As in real life, it is in comics. A misconception of learning among students these days is that learning is a process that involves simply knowing something that they didn’t know five minutes ago. Immediate gratification reveals its ugly self in yet another domain as we continue our catapulted journey through …

'Venom: First Host' #2 is a good issue and explores an interesting, special bond shared between shared between the Venom Symbiote and host Eddie Brock.

The first day of school is a day of anxiety and discomfort; new routines, names, faces, a cessation of an extra couple hours of sleep in the morning and the feeling that the person in that desk sitting across from you doesn’t like you. … now imagine how the students …

Before Eddie Brock, before Peter Parker, before even the Secret Wars, there was the First Host! 'Venom: First Host' #1 is a lot of fun, and this is coming from a non-Venom fan.

Pop Mythology's John K. Kirk got the chance to speak with one of the foremost names in comics art, Bill Sienkiewicz, about his distinctive work and career.

The best thing I get to do in the convention season is sit on panels with some of the creators I write about, and there’s plenty more opportunities coming up. Last week in Boston (at Fan Expo Boston) I hosted a panel of indy creators featuring Andy Belanger, Rob Guillory …