by Alan Kistler | Feb 8, 2017 | Comics
Today would have been the 103rd birthday of Bill Finger. Today, many folks still don’t know the contributions of Finger to the US comic book industry and superheroes. Finger wrote and contributed to many characters stories during the Golden Age of Comics. With...
by Alan Kistler | Feb 1, 2017 | Comics, News
Last year, DC Comics started reimagining Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, shifting them from the familiar cartoons of old to ones that are all-ages friendly but also socially relevant today. Mark Russell, writer of the reimagined comic series The Flinstones, is now...
by Alan Kistler | Jan 31, 2017 | Nerd 101
Gomer Pyle used it as an exclamation of excitement and today many know it as the name of an app that identifies music you encounter. But the word “Shazam” originated in comic books as the source of power for Billy Batson, the hero originally called Captain...
by Alan Kistler | Jan 17, 2017 | Comics, Op-Ed
Superheroes exist in a realm that seems to lie between myth, social commentary, and folk tale. There’s often something primal to them. Some of them even literally bring in elements and characters from mythology. In Marvel Comics, the Norse god Thor is a...
by Alan Kistler | Jan 12, 2017 | Comics, Events
Joseph P. Illidge (@JosephPIllidge) is a man of many hats. He is the Senior Editor for Lion Forge Comics, a writer of Solarman, a columnist at CBR, a former editor for DC Comics, and a former editor of Milestone Comics. At Lion Forge, he’s spearheading a new...
