By now, you’ve probably heard that Dan DiDio is out as the co-publisher of DC Comics. Heidi covers a lot of it: The departure of Dan DiDio as DC Co-Publisher on Friday was both long expected an...
https://www.comicmix.com/2020/02/24/dcs-real-doomsday-clock-dan-didio-5g-and-the-end-of-the-trinity/
…And then he ducks the guns. Last column we discussed what happens to those criminals on Adventures of Superman who shoot at Superman only to have their bullets bounce off him. Bottom line, the...
https://www.comicmix.com/2019/05/06/the-law-is-a-ass-installment-440-did-superman-bounce-a-check/
In the immortal words of Dorothy Parker… Err, maybe we shouldn’t go there. Sorry it’s been a while. September until May constitutes a while, cause it’s a bit longer than a little while. B...
https://www.comicmix.com/2019/04/29/the-law-is-a-ass-installment-439-bouncing-ideas-off-superman/
If you’re of a certain generation, you remember the big summertime issues that your parents picked up for you on the way to whatever you were doing that required a long car ride to get there–...
https://www.comicmix.com/2018/06/22/the-return-of-the-dc-100-page-giant/
Apropos for today, World Refugee Day…
Somewhere around the mid-point of one of the chaotic action sequences in Justice League, a thought echoed in my head. “Avengers was better. I know it was. But why?” Put a pin in that. And whi...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/11/25/marc-alan-fishman-just-a-league-of-their-own/
As of my typing up this column, DC Comics employee of over twenty years and Superman Group Editor Eddie Berganza has been fired from the company in relation to the sexual harassment and assault a...
So look: we’re all part of the same whole, right? I mean, we can all trace our origins to the same big bang, between 13,000,000 and 14,000,000 million years ago, give or take a few calendar pag...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/10/26/dennis-oneil-invisible-comic-books/
I’ve been a fan of Superman since I was a wee lass – ever since watching that first Christopher Reeve Superman movie on TV. While the X-Men are relatable and Batman is cool and Deadpool is da...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/10/11/emily-s-whitten-krypton-exploring-the-unknown/
Look, over there – isn’t that Charlie Brown’s pal Linus, belly crawling through the pumpkin patch? No, not Linus, but somebody who’s awfully familiar. Let’s get closer and… Rats! Do y...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/09/28/dennis-oneil-whos-reality-is-this/
I’m indebted to Fox News anchor (and blogger) Todd Starnes. About two weeks ago – okay, I’m late to the party again – he posted a commentary entitled “Superman defends illegals against ...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/09/24/john-ostrander-the-ultimate-illegal-alien/
Hurricane Irma is pretty much done wreaking havoc, but the worst of it is very bad. And it’s not over. Much of the hurricane season is yet to come and the weather might still have some nasty su...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/09/14/dennis-oneil-weather-woes/
Bill Maher, noted iconoclastic and increasingly misanthropic host of Real Time on HBO, announced about ten days ago that he was taking July off because, after six months of President Trump, he re...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/07/09/john-ostrander-holding-out-for-a-hero/
So – where was I last weekend? I was in Metropolis, that’s where, down in the Southern tip of Illinois attending the 39th Annual Superman Celebration. Way back in 1972 the city got DC’s per...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/06/18/superman-and-metropolis-celebrate-john-ostrander/
Hey girl we’ve got to get out of this place, there’s got to be something better than this I need you, but I hate to see you this way. If I were Superman then we’d fly away. I’d really lik...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/04/12/mike-gold-wish-i-could-fly-like-superman/
In peril, poor Polly Pearlwhite plunges from the pinnacle… And I, a superhero, really should fly up and save her and so I shall as soon as I change into my hero garb and… But what is this? I ...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/03/30/dennis-oneil-iron-fist-and-the-costume-unseen/
Everything I need to know, I learned from superhero comics. Not just how to infer the meaning of words I don’t know from context (seeing bullets bounce off Superman while someone said he was �...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/02/03/martha-thomases-the-superhero-lesson/
Wow, the past 12 days have been a whirlwind of change, and I am not talking about comics. It’s incredibly hard to write about anything but the ever-changing world that we live in. It affects th...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/02/01/molly-jackson-arts-of-war/
So last Friday, in lockstep, we all walked off the edge of the cliff and began what promises to be a long, long plunge. (Maybe you can feel the wind in your hair but I can’t, due to a scarcity ...
https://www.comicmix.com/2017/01/26/dennis-oneil-bang-or-whimper/
I’ll admit, I am deathly afraid I haven’t pissed enough people off this past year and I’m rapidly running out of time. But, damn, people keep on pissing me off and, like every jamoke who...
https://www.comicmix.com/2016/12/28/mike-gold-pisses-people-off-a-continuing-series/
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...
This morning (I prep my stuff on Tuesday) I flicked on my Facebook feed to see a pair of news stories — real ones — that caused me to sincerely take pause. The first was vapid enough: Interne...
https://www.comicmix.com/2016/11/26/marc-alan-fishman-wheres-superman-when-we-need-him/
Truth, Justice and the American Way. That’s a phrase that has special meaning to those of us who love comics. Even if you’re not a superhero fan you remember it from your childhood, when, may...
https://www.comicmix.com/2016/11/04/martha-thomases-the-never-ending-battle/
So here I am, this slightly chilly afternoon in October, Columbus Day, as a matter of fact, not celebrating slavery, racism, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, imperialism – those are the ...
https://www.comicmix.com/2016/10/13/dennis-oneil-more-mighty/
In Part 2 of our Supergirl San Diego Comic Con Roundtable interview, we chat with Supergirl herself (Melissa Benoit), Chryler Leigh (Alex Danvers) & Superman (Tyler Hoechlin). If you haven’t wa...
https://www.comicmix.com/2016/09/15/tweeks-supergirl-cast-interviews-at-sdcc-part-2/