Mike Gold: Sex – Our Moral Dilemma
Regular readers of this space may have discerned I have an absolutist attitude towards the First Amendment: freedom of expression must not be abridged in any way or form. That doesn’t mean people or...
View ArticleMike Gold: Top Comics Pulls of 2013
You can tell when the year is coming to an end when media outlets start offering their various and sundry “best of” lists. We here at ComicMix are no exception, so for the third consecutive year,...
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: WWE and A Future For Comics
Last Wednesday, Vince McMahon announced the launching of the WWE Network. Suffice to say it was well received by his hardcore fans just as he’d hoped. To use a bit of hyperbole – which all things...
View ArticlePay-what-you-want Humble Image Bundle to benefit CBLDF
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/pay-what-you-want-humble-image-bundle-to-benefit-cbldf/ Humble Bundle has partnered with Image Comics to offer a collection of DRM-free digital titles for...
View ArticleMike Gold: Electronic Comics – The Next Generation
The distribution system that provided us with books, magazines, newspapers and comics started falling apart some 60 years ago. The term “newsstand” is no more relevant today than the term “buggy...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: Making Magic With Amber Benson
Like you, we first fell in love with Amber Benson during her days on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. The feelings only grew as we watch her evolve into a director, producer and most of all a successful...
View ArticleMartha Thomases: So This Is Thanksgiving
“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep And I fall asleep counting my blessings” “Count Your Blessings” by Irving Berlin Next week is Thanksgiving, and so I’m trying...
View ArticleEd Catto: Delivering the Paper
Print sales for the debut issue of Paper Girls were 75,000. That’s impressive. This accomplishment is even more impressive when you realize this story includes no capes, superheroes or zombies and was...
View ArticleMichael Davis: Welcome Black My Brother
Something good this way comes! Not the first but perhaps the best black superhero, Brotherman is returning in 2016. After more than 20 years the Brothers Sims will publish what has passed cult status...
View ArticleReview: “Marvel Comics: The Untold Story” by Sean Howe
Despite the massive mainstream success of comic-to-screen adaptations like Marvel’s The Avengers and DC’s The Dark Knight Rises, there hasn’t been much serious scholarship or long-form journalism...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: GRIMM & PERSON OF INTEREST – Shows To Be Thankful For
The second season of NBC’s GRIMM has turned the characters upside down, especially “Juliette” played by Bitsi Tulloch. She fills us in on how it all happened – and what’s coming up on the show when...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: GO ON Pushes NBC To The Top
The November TV Ratings Sweeps are over and for the first time in a while, NBC climbed to the top. Critics are saying that the win was due to several of the network’s new shows, including the comedy...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: Kurt Sutter On SONS Bloody End
SONS OF ANARCHY will be wrapping this season on a particularly bloody note, which has been the tone for the last few months. We talked with series creator Kurt Sutter about his plans to keep the...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: Howie Mandel’s Got Holiday Game
It’s a Christmas tradition at a lot of holiday parties. You might call it “Secret Santa” or “White Elephant” but now it’s getting super-sized and coming to NBC for five consecutive nights. Howie...
View ArticleThe Point Radio: ARROW’s Aim Is Still True
As ARROW hits the halfway mark of the TV season, fans and critics alike say it keeps getting better. We go backstage with the creators and cast to find out how they got this far, and what lies ahead...
View ArticleMike Gold’s Top 9 of 2012
It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for still another mindless list of favorites – maintaining a cloying, egotistical annual tradition throughout the media. Once again, here are my self-imposed...
View ArticleDENNIS O’NEIL: The World Must Make Sense
Here we are again: Christmas Eve, and I had an idea for a column – a kind of story/parable that would culminate in a macabre image involving the season’s most prominent icons. The Scrooge in me...
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Available Now: THE CESTUS CONCERN by MAT NASTOS WHO IS MALCOLM WEIR? Waking up in an operating room, much to the surprise of the attending surgeons, Malcolm Weir frantically fights his way out of a...
View ArticleMartha Thomases Makes Her Own Apologies
According to this story, which is a rumor on a rumor-mongering site (which I love!), Dan DiDio recently apologized to DC creative talent at an editorial retreat. He admitted that there had been...
View ArticleARE YOU READY FOR THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT?
New Pulp Publisher Pulp 2.0 Press has released The Knight Watchman: Graveyard Shift collected edition. Press Release: KNIGHT WATCHMAN: GRAVEYARD SHIFTBUY IT NOW!ONLY $8.99CREATESPACEAMAZON From the...
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