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A lot has happened since the blockbuster January 2025 announcement that Diamond Comics Distributors declared bankruptcy. In April and May 2025, a Baltimore bankruptcy court approved the fragmentation and sale of Diamond Distributors to two corporations, Universal Entertainment and Ad Populum/Sparkle Pop. Diamond Distributors would later change its name to…

Most comic book characters are memorable because of their superpowers and amazing abilities. Superman can fly, employ heat vision, and has super strength. Spider-Man has super strength and can stick to walls. In the comic books, Tony Stark used to be a normal human but is now basically a post-human…

Superman is the most famous and well-known comic book character in the history of pop culture. This fact is true, even if Superman is not as popular with modern fans. In fact, Batman is more popular than Superman with modern fans. While fans love Superman, he is hard to relate…

Comic books have always been a metaphor and narrative mirror of society and the current zeitgeist. To pretend otherwise is silly. If you pretend to hate politics in comic books, it’s only because the comic doesn’t mirror your own. There is a comic book called Captain Confederacy about a superhero…

You may not know this, but many of your favorite characters have been in the public domain for decades or longer. Thor and all of the Norse gods, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Tarzan, John Carter, and more, are all public domain characters. 

What do you think you really know about Avengers comic books? Do you know that in the Marvel comic books, Jarvis is a real person? Are you aware that the Avengers comic books only exist because an artist in 1963 missed his deadline on another comic book?

Comic books are very fragile. Whether you read comic books purely for entertainment or potential investment purposes, it pays in the long run to buy comic book protector case products. The longer you expose comic book paper to oxygen, sunlight, humidity, dust, and the elements, the more it slowly degrades…

I don’t delight in the fact that 2023’s The Flash was a complete failure. As a comic book fan, I wanted it to succeed. The Flash was supposed to debut in March 2018 and was in development Hell long before that. It was rewritten and revised too many times for…

Can you separate the artist from the art? What if the artist has undeniable and hard-to-ignore flaws? How do you look at the work of a comic book creator if you now know they are a credit hog, online troll, or potential sex criminal? Controversy sells, but sometimes, it also…

Wolverine is one of the most popular superheroes ever created. Hugh Jackman made the character a household name with his portrayal in the Fox-era X-Men films and 2024’s Deadpool and Wolverine. Who didn’t dream of having Wolverine’s powers as a kid? However, would you really want them?

The new Batman by writer Matt Fraction and artist Jorge Jimenez is out now! This new era of Batman comics is a big deal because the legacy issue numbering will now revert to #1. While I do have a physical copy, I also have it on digital. I have to…