Last weekend, C2E2 — the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo — burst at the seams with incredible creators and events, and Comicosity had a front row seat! In the first of many interviews to come in the next two weeks, we were lucky to be able to sit down with writer Gail Simone and talk about…
THE COMICS CLASSROOM: The Foundation of Heroes, Part 3
In this series, we have examined the tragic pasts of heroes and the heroes who struggle with emotional complexities. While the emotional state of heroes, but sometimes heroics are more than that. Sometimes heroes are defined by the gifts and favors granted to them by forces divine or foreign. Heroes having access to extraordinary objects…
THE COMICS CLASSROOM: The Foundation of Heroes, Part 2
In the previous article in this series, the first trait of what made up the primordial foundation for a hero was the notion of tragedy. For many heroes, the heroic path starts with a loss, disaster, or event that causes them great grief. This grief is commonly transformed within the hero into a kind of…
THE COMICS CLASSROOM: The Foundation of Heroes, Part 1
Within the American comic-book origins that started with Siegel, Shuster, Kirby, Lee, and Goodman, the ability of their costumed heroes to combat the forces of crime was paramount. The primal element of the superhero’s makeup was his ability (supernaturally or normally) to combat elements within a city or a nation that lead to the emotional…
Comic Love: Kurtis Wiebe & Roc Upchurch, I’m Ready for My Humble Pie
It’s not secret I was not the biggest fan of Rat Queens when the first issue hit last fall. Don’t get me wrong, it was funny. I laughed. I recognized how so many other people would enjoy it, however I chalked it up to: It’s just not for me. I also tried to stay as…
Interview: Tony Breed Kickstarts FINN AND CHARLIE
For an ongoing slice of life packaged neatly in a web comic, look no further than Finn and Charlie Get Hitched. The weekly strip by artist and writer (and moustache enthusiast) Tony Breed has been collected in three volumes to date, but now the opportunity has come for a full color printing of a fourth…
The Comic Classroom: Re-Birth Part 3
What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? These two questions are, quite possibly, the penultimate conundrum that bedevils mankind. To answer these questions, we have come to understand the universe through the mechanisms and methodologies of religion. However, few religions offer an identical meaning to those two important questions. While…
The Comics Classroom: Re-Birth Part 2
Perhaps one of the most interesting facets of the human mind is our ability to twist one thing into another, i.e. we tend to misunderstand what we think will be a desired trait until we actually get it. Thus, we twist said gift into a curse. One of the overriding things man has sought to…
Review: A VOICE IN THE DARK #2
A VOICE IN THE DARK #2 Written by Larime Taylor Art by Larime Taylor Published by Image Comics Release Date: January 8, 2014 Author and illustrator Larime Taylor continues to lead us down a dark path of self-examination with “Blood Makes Noise, Part 2.” While part 1 of this story dealt primarily with murder and…
The Comics Classroom: Re-Birth Part 1
One of the beauties about the human species is that, regardless of our beliefs in the next world, we tend to universally understand that once we die… we are gone. With the exception of the x/zombie idea, almost no mythological system has existed that predicates a way for us to return as we were. Humans,…