Behind Every Hero or Villain, There Is Tech Support
Cutting-edge technology is often used in comics by the able assistants who fall under the trope "the guy in the chair." But they are not always men and are not always helping the hero.
Cutting-edge technology is often used in comics by the able assistants who fall under the trope "the guy in the chair." But they are not always men and are not always helping the hero.
Marvel Entertainment and Samuel French team up for a series of educational plays for teenagers.
The book, "Showtime at the Apollo" by Ted Fox, is a tribute to the Harlem cultural institution, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this month.
Comic book stories, like soap operas, are a never-ending series of twists and turns. And fans of super-heroes have learned that seemingly no death is permanent.
It has been four years since the Little Orphan Annie comic strip ended with Annie missing in Guatemala, but Dick Tracy is now looking for her.
"Romeo and Juliet: The War," co-written by Stan Lee, enters the hardcover and paperback lists at No. 7.
Number one on our hardcover list this week is "Justice League of America: Dark Times," written by James Robinson and illustrated by Mark Bagley.
The new book on our hardcover list this week, "Gotham Central: Corrigan," at No. 1, is the fourth and final volume of the series.
Volume seven of "Scalped," about South Daktoa's fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation, arrives at No. 3 on our softcover list this week.
"Nemesis," a mini-series published by Marvel, whose collected edition arrives at No. 8 on our hardcover list, is about the ultimate, unstoppable villain.
The resurrected hero hits the hardcover list at no. 2 with "The Dastardly Death of the Rogues," the first collected edition of his new on-going series.
In "Scenes From an Impending Marriage," the cartoonist Adrian Tomine chronicles his own march down the aisle in a series of comic strips.
The novelist Peter S. Beagle is the latest author to have his work adapted into the graphic novel format.
The work of the fantasy novelist Robert Jordan gets a graphic novel adaptation in "New Spring," part of the author's "Wheel of Time" series.
Comic book stories, like soap operas, are a never-ending series of twists and turns. And fans of super-heroes have learned that seemingly no death is permanent.
The Fantastic Four will lose one of its team members to the Grim Reaper in an issue that is to be released Tuesday.
The fourth volume of "Stepping on Roses," published by VIZ Media, enters our manga list at No. 8 this week.
With so much loving going around for vampires, this collected edition was kind of inevitable: at no. 1 on the hardcover list this week is the first volume of the "Vampirella Archives."
Beginning in April, digital versions of comics will be offered on the same day print editions arrive on newsstands.
In honor of January's price reduction, we surveyed the cover price of Action Comics over the years.
The latest volume of the series "Inuyasha" lands at No. 10 on the manga list this week.
A longtime member of Archie's extended family goes to her reward.
The good, the bad, the mutant and the undead.
The hardcover list this week shows the diversity of graphic novels.
An adaptation of "The Little Prince," the 1943 parable by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is new to the hardcover list this week.