Dennis O’Neil: Mayor Green Arrow? Really?
What’s the pothole situation in Starling City? And the re-zoning hassle – that still a headache? And the business with the access lanes to the bridge – was that ever settled? Since Oliver Queen’s been...
View ArticleMichael Davis: “I don’t grab pussy. It grabs me.”
I was so stunned by the election I just couldn’t bring myself to write a damn thing for the last few weeks. Hell, in the case of Bleeding Cool it’s been months that I blame on my depression and trying...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: PI’s
Now as I was young and easy and gentlemen still trod the Earth and politics still made sense (a little… sometimes) I held that private eye fiction was about righteous men who had the courage to be...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Hunky Dory on the Potomac?
So this is the bardo, huh? Let’s look around… big Dick Sprang Batman print on the wall, lots of books, big repro of a Green Lantern/Green Arrow cover. Statuettes of comic book characters here and...
View ArticleJohn Ostrander’s Spare Plots
More than once over the years I’ve been approached by someone who says that they have a great idea for a story and that I should write it and then we split any money evenly. The problem with this...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Ha Ha Ha
Here’s the plan. You’ll wait until the office is closed for the day and the lights are all out and then, possibly wearing a tool belt, you’ll sneak inside and remove the appliance from its place near...
View ArticleBox Office Democracy: The Lego Batman Movie
I wonder if there’s a pop culture franchise I wouldn’t be excited to see turned in to a Lego production at this point. The Lego Batman Movie could have so easily been an uninspired cash-in to take...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Justice League Vs… Trump?
If I’d looked around my tiny, cluttered office, just before Marifran came through the door I would not have seen an Oujia Board, a tarot deck, a tortoise shell, an I Ching, tea leaves, an icoshedral...
View ArticleJohn Ostrander: Wait. What Was I Thinking?
On May 23, DC will release the sixth volume in their TPB reprint series of my Suicide Squad work. It’s sub-titled “The Phoenix Gambit” and, as is my wont, I’m going to share some thoughts about the...
View ArticleEd Catto: Watching the Detectives
Detective Comics is the longest running American comic book series. It was so important to the publisher, an outfit called National Periodical Publications, that one day they officially changed their...
View ArticleEd Catto: Neal Adams’ Mighty Team-Ups!
Geek Culture, unlike other passion businesses like sports or music, affords fans the opportunity to collaborate with fellow fans and rub elbows with professionals. I’d argue that it’s unique to this...
View ArticleAdam West: 1928-2017
Adam West, an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman”, died Friday night in Los Angeles at the age of 88 after a short battle with leukemia. For many people in the...
View ArticleMike Gold: Adam West Saved More Than Just The Universe
ComicMix’s crack legal columnist Bob Ingersoll is more than just a lawyer with a great wit, although that would be enough. For decades, Bob has been my go-to guy on the subject of television minutiae....
View ArticleEd Catto: Spellbound by Batman
When Leonard Nimoy died, several comic conventions paused for a moment of silence as fans offered up the Vulcan salute. Those were lovely gestures as the nerd community showed how beloved the actor,...
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: That Moment That Makes You Feel Mortal
We here at ComicMix deal part-in-parcel with the capes and cowls. Super-powered beings who defy conventional laws of science, completing miraculous acts to save humanity from heinous villainy. Most...
View ArticleMartha Thomases: Superhero Summer Love
Summertime summertime sum-sum-summertime. Long days. Sultry nights. Summer is hot. Literally. We are very aware of our bodies, and the bodies of those around us. We wear lighter clothes. We wear...
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: Comics Are Dead. Thank you, DC!
So, spoiler alert. The comic industry as we know it is going to die. Well, according to Dan DiDio and Jim Lee it is. At the San Diego Comic Con – which I clearly didn’t attend because I already knew...
View ArticleEd Catto: It’s A Bat, Bat, Bat, Bat, Bat World
I’m a big fan of Batman. Always have been. Just this past weekend my wonderful Great Aunt Margaret reminded me that I proudly wore a bat-cape as a young boy. Don’t worry, I think I outgrew that by the...
View ArticleThe Law Is A Ass #422: Penguin Issues A License To Kill… Logic
Like I said before, well if they’re gonna make it easy for me… Seriously, the season premiere of Gotham, “Pax Penguina,” didn’t even get out of the teaser before I was thinking, “Well, that’s not...
View ArticleThe Law Is A Ass #424: Arkham Makes An Asylum Of You And Me
Albert Einstein once said, “Glix sptzl glaah,” then he turned one and developed his first working model of the Theory of Relativity; “that lady who feeds me is Mama.” Einstein also reportedly said,...
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