The many random superpowers of J’onn J’onnz: Silver Age Comics looks at The Martian Manhunter’s powers as they originally began to emerge. And a few days previous, a look at J’onn’s greatest enemy.
Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, in handsomer days: Sean Kleefeld found some images of Wheeler-Nicholson, the founder of what would become DC Comics, the guy who kinda sorta invented comics and one of the many colorful characters of the Golden Age, and shared them on his blog.
Is the Preist movie based on a “graphic novel”…?: This article about the film based on the manhwa series, published state-side by Tokyopop, refers to the source material is a graphic novel in the headline. It’s one of several I’ve noticed in the last few days to do so. I know the term is a malleable one, but even at its most malleable, I’m not sure it applies here. What do you guys think?
Two rather idiosyncratic reactions to Thor: Law and The Multiverse explores the legal issues raised by the film in a pair of posts, and Kalinara notes the greater-than-usual female presence in the film.
Yeah, Death Note will do that: Curt Purcell thought he could spend just a few minutes on the addictively suspenseful manga series and walk away.
May 12th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I think that for the amount of pages and the size/shape of manga/manhwa/manhua, they are more like a graphic novel than an American comic series is.
Whatever they want to brand it as, I don’t care as long as it leads to people being interested in buying comics.