I'm the managing editor of Orang Utan Comics, group editor of AAM/Markosia, writer of Alpha Gods, Hypergirl and Hero: 9-5, and also do freelance inking and lettering work for the likes of AAM/Markosia, Slave Labour, Top Shelf, Image, Marvel/Panini and I letter the official Doctor Who graphic novels for BBC Books.
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…but you don’t want to read about the superheroes of the big two companies. That’s okay because comics can be about so much more than just superheroes! In fact, there are even more comic book publishers than just Marvel and DC such as Dark Horse, Image, Top Cow, and countless other independent publishers. The following recommendations are mostly the products of a DC Comics offshoot publisher called Vertigo and represent a range of genres. They are not, however, the only books in the game. I also avoided recommending any tie-in comic books but if you are a fan of something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Star Wars, you could always begin with picking up those comic books as a way to see if you like the medium. Although I’ve only included a few, I’ll also suggest that if you enjoyed a film or a TV show that was based upon a comic book that you pick up the first volume of that comic and give it a try.
Long story short, comics are great and are about so much more than just the Marvel and DC Superheroes. There really is a book out there for everyone!
Read the rest of the article (and get the recommendations!) over at Tosche Station
So, I’m scrolling through my dash, not paying that much attention, see this article about how there’s more to comics than the Big Two, lightly scan the tags and start thinking, “Oh, yes, all the usual suspects when it comes to things outside the Big Two to read…ohwaitholycrap!”
Just three more matches! Today we have the first match to decide which DC woman goes to the finals. I hope you all had a chance to read the wonderful essays that made the case as to why each woman should win. Each time I read one I changed my mind. It’s wonderful that there is such passion for a variety of female characters in DC comics.
Before we get to today’s match some housekeeping. First, I am leaving voting open until 9PM EST tonight. Secondly, please remember that there is one vote per person.
And it’s on!
In this corner a woman who, according to the post making the case for her, is
Wonder Woman is extremely versatile. She’s a wise diplomat, but she’s also a fierce warrior. She’s a princess from a mythical world, but she also has a human identity with the mundanity that entails. She’s the most kind and loving person on the planet, but she will also destroy you if she has to. She regularly saves the entire universe, but she’ll also take the time to help out a tearful child. In the realm of superheroes, no matter the scope of the problem, whether it requires the utmost delicacy or the most brutal ferocity, whether it’s an advanced society or a creature of pure savagery, whether it’s better to talk or it’s better to fight, Wonder Woman is ALWAYS the best person for the job.
And in the other corner a woman who, according the the essay saying why she would win, states:
The fact that she’s able to win that fight against her own doubts – without the darkness and brooding so common among her fellow superheroes – is precisely what makes Stephanie so unique … and so powerful. It’s not just that Steph is determined. It’s that, more than any other superhero, Stephanie Brown is able to get out of her own way and strive to be the kind of hero, the kind of person, that she really wants to be. The fact that she can do it with her senses of fun and of humor intact is, undeniably, a superpower in its own right. One that even us ordinary, non-superpowered folks can all aspire to have.
You can vote in today’s match here
Vote Steph!
The second most important vote you’ll make today!*
(*if you’re in England and outside of London)
In yesterday’s match Black Canary, Dinah Lance, won over Lois Lane.
Today I have another fun match for you!
In one corner a woman who gives a shit less than a honey badger!
“Battlin’” Big Barda Free!
And in the other corner a woman who knows how to handle the Bat boys!
“Slappin’” Stephanie Brown
You can vote in today’s match here.
Vote Steph!
Why so sad, Hitler? Cheer up, it can’t be…
…wait…you’re an evil, genocidal, racist. You better be miserable!
I have never been nothing.
I miss Steph :(
Bleeding Cool is reporting that a source at SDCC has said that Stephanie Brown has been dropped from the Smallville comic and replaced with Barbara Gordon.
DC Comics revealed in June that Stephanie Brown, the character who has been known as Spoiler, Robin and Batgirl, would join the comic…
Mr. Snyders statement from SDCC is similar to the statement he gave back at Kapow! Comic Convention in London in May. When I asked him about Steph he said: “I would love to use/write her, but I’m not allowed to.”
This honestly makes no sense to me at all…
