PopCultHQ Takes A Look at the History of Valiant’s Shadowman
PopCultHQ's comic book historian takes us on a history lesson to the Deadside!
Read more“Wrath of the Eternal Warrior” Promises to be Something Completely Different from Valiant
Once again, PopCultHQ was honored, by given the opportunity to read the first issue of a new Valiant series, Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. Here is what our resident Comic Book Historian and avid classic Valiant fan, Christian, had to say about this fantastic new series. WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #1 First… it was good! A bit slow but it shows us so much more about Gilad’s background and where the mysterious Eternal Warrior may come from. Coming off the heels of the shocking ending of Book of Death #4 is Wrath of the Eternal Warrior. Robert Venditti jumps right into expanding
Read moreDark Knight 3; The Master Race by Frank Miller – All Variant Covers.
Dark Knight III: The Master Race is going to have an insane amount of variant covers. We will hunt them all down and updated this article as they become available. With custom art made for over thirty different retailers. The full list of artists (so far) is below, Frank Miller to Pen the Dark Knight III: The Master Race These variant covers for DC Comics’ first issue of the comic that concludes the story started in Frank Miller’s seminal Dark Knight Returns will hit shelves on November 25, 2015 alongside the standard covers and other variants that will be available
Read morePopCultHQ’s Comic Book Historian Reviews The Amazing Spider-Man #1
We’re still in the middle of Marvel’s Secret Wars but the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe books begin shipping this Wednesday. Of course I happened to snag a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 volume 4 a day or two early. What we have here is a true to goodness All-New Spider-Man! (Warning: Spoilers) Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli deliver to us a nice package with awesome art, awesome story and lots of action and seeds for what is yet to come. As always Spider-Man under Slott has yet to disappoint; even if Spider-Verse was a hit or miss. I feel
Read moreNewest ‘The Walking Dead’ Parody – ‘Surviving with Daryl – Trackin’
Laugh While You Learn How To Track 'The Walking Dead' Parody - 'Surviving with Daryl'
Read moreÉditions Delcourt-Soleil in English – Comic Books from France: Reviews Round 2!!
It seems the people over at Éditions Delcourt-Soleil Comics really liked my first batch of reviews from the French based publishing house. It is due time to give a second round look at how Delcourt’s line-up is coming along. Delcourt titles have been getting consistently stronger and stronger as the months go by. With month two well over and into the next chapters of many of the books, we learn the French way of how they tell comic book story arcs. It seems the French comic writers like to break their stories into two-part arcs that keep the pace of
Read moreRead a Banned Comic in Celebration of Banned Books Week
Yep, comics and graphic novels are regularly challenged or banned just as much as novels. At my library, we always have a display dedicated to the books that are widely challenged and this year is no different. If you want to know more about Banned Books Week, which is from September 27-October 3 this year, visit organizations like American Library Association and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF). Or, you can celebrate your freedom to read by picking up one of these challenged comics and graphic novels: Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations Synopsis: In the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy, Spider-Man comes to understand that
Read morePopCultHQ: Interview with Spider-Gwen Artist Robbi Rodriguez!
Robbi Rodriquez the artist for Spider-Gwen comics and co-creator of the character has been making waves in and out of the industry. The undeniable popularity of Spider-Gwen has surpassed the hate from long-time comic fans who thought messing with such a character was taboo of sorts. In the eyes of Robbi this is not your Grandfather’s Gwen, nor is she even the Gwen Stacy known from Marvel’s comic past lore. As Robbi puts it “She’s Gwen by name only. A totally different character.” Then comes the war of words between Robbi and Frank Cho another fellow artist in the comic book
Read more“Peanutize Me”! Become your very own Character from The Peanuts Movie with Character Creator!
In September of 2015, we originally ran this article. Recently we’ve noticed it trending and thought we would re-explore the experience. The newest feature is a Snoopytizer, Ever find yourself spending more than an hour creating a character on Skyrim? No? Just me? Well, a recently launched website has fans experiencing the fun and less daunting character creation to promote an upcoming movie, The Peanuts Movie. “Creating your own Peanuts avatar is easy! Choose your character’s gender, hair, clothes, accessories and more to make your very own Peanutized persona, then share it with the world.” The Peanuts Movie promo site said it best. Creating
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