Any trade that is interesting.
When you suffer the self-imposed affliction known as “Intense Media Saturation”, contempt breeds an inborn resistance to recognizable tropes or elements. You find yourself reacting to new plot ideas as simply the bi-product of a slight tweak to an already… Read More ›
In the comic books industry biographies and memoirs do not get much of the lime light, and therefore little to no one talks about or even brings anything up about them. I decided to take a chance and pick up… Read More ›
I found myself looking up a list of all the films based originally on comics for an article I was going to do for another site. The obvious Marvel and DC canon majority aside, I learned that there were a… Read More ›
During the ten plus years that I have been routinely reading comics in all of their forms, I came to a point where I figured that I knew the countries where most were created: the UK, Japan, France, America, and… Read More ›
Of all of the tropes and commonplaces that I have learned from Western comics, there are two that stand out the most. First is the need for depicting cityscapes filled with boardwalk ads, street lights, and panels filled with mix-matched… Read More ›
Comic creators have taken to the financial backing site Kickstarter in such a creative collaboration peak that I thank my lucky stars I live in the twenty-first century where such a thing is possible. Each creator has their own need… Read More ›
Crossed: Psychopath is all together a different beast than the original. Written by David Lapham and drawn by Raulo Caceres, familiar names in the Avatar Press catalog. The story starts several years after the happening world is infested with crossed Marauding bands… Read More ›
Story time is upon us here tonight at CTBF and the story in question is one that started it all and the genre that constitutes one-fourth of this site. Yeah, I feel like introducing you (sea of darting eyes) to… Read More ›
Folk tales are considered a vital part of a region’s cultural heritage and tradition. North America is breaming with such stories: John Henry and his role as a hard working steel driver on nineteenth century train tracks, the Native American… Read More ›
Throughout Comic publishing’s long history of breeding countless companies, you are bound to find just as many imprints. Dark Horse has had past imprints like Legend where well-known creators like Mike Mignola and Frank Miller tried to create a creator-owned… Read More ›
Comics have had a long history with the Weird Western genre. Jonah Hex aside, titles like Garth Ennis’ Preacher, Hyung Min-woo’s Priest, and Todd Livingston’s and Robert Tinnell’s The Wicked West, encapsulate the blending of Western with other fictional realms like… Read More ›
In lieu of my usual tactic of reviewing things out of the mainstream, I am reviewing one special comic. I know what you are all thinking, “Is he going to be writing about The Sandman, The Crow, or The League… Read More ›
Published by KODANSHA in 2010; Hagakure: The Code of The Samurai has been adapted from translations. It comes from the popular spiritual guide of the same name. With the help of Sean Michael Wilson and Chie Kutsuwada it has been… Read More ›
Children of The Blazing Fist 