Deconstructing Comics #735 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Mister Miracle’ #13-18
Jack Kirby‘s Mister Miracle continued on for a year or so after his other Fourth World books had been canceled.
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Deconstructing Comics #734: Ron Randall, ‘Trekker,’ And Decompressed Storytelling
What’s creator Ron Randall been up to since we talked with him last? He’s continuing his comic, Trekker, now 35
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Deconstructing Comics #733: Kirby’s Fourth World — ‘Mister Miracle’ #7-12
Tim and Emmet continue their read through Jack Kirby’s Fourth World comics with Mister Miracle issues 7 through 12. Is
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Deconstructing Comics #732: ‘The Immortal Hulk’
The Immortal Hulk won a fair amount of praise, including for Al Ewing‘s writing (although also censure for the hate
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Deconstructing Comics #731: ‘Judge Dredd’
Judge Dredd, created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, first appeared in 1977 and is as mainstream in
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Deconstructing Comics #730 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Forever People’ And ‘New Gods’ End
Jack Kirby‘s big plans for his four Fourth World books were cut short when DC abruptly cancelled all but one
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Deconstructing Comics #729: Nancy Collins’ ‘Swamp Thing’
While Kumar read Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and other ’70s and ’80s versions of the character well after they
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Deconstructing Comics #728 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Mister Miracle’ #1-#6
Our journey through Jack Kirby‘s Fourth World books now takes us to the first six issues of Mister Miracle, a
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Deconstructing Comics #727 — Jack Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘New Gods’ #1-#6
While the Forever People are (mistakenly, in our view) seen by many as “cheesy,” Jack Kirby’s New Gods has been
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Deconstructing Comics #726 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘The Forever People’ #2-#8
After reading Jack Kirby‘s wacky Jimmy Olsen run, Tim and Emmet weren’t sure what to expect from the first seven
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Deconstructing Comics #725: Jim Rugg On ‘Street Angel,’ ‘Hulk: Grand Design,’ And More!
Jim Rugg is known for his indy hit Street Angel, for being half of the duo hosting the super-prolific Cartoonist
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Deconstructing Comics #724: ‘Young Shadow’
Superheroes are the stuff of kids’ fantasies. Who among us hasn’t fantasized about having powers, putting on a costume and
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Deconstructing Comics #723: ‘EC Comics: Race, Shock, And Social Protest’
EC Comics are most commonly associated with the horror stories that shocked parents and U.S. Senators in 1954. But EC
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Deconstructing Comics #722 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Jimmy Olsen’ Pt 2
The second half of Jack Kirby‘s run on Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen continues to throw out idea after mind-blowing idea.
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Deconstructing Comics #721 — Kirby’s Fourth World: ‘Jimmy Olsen’ Pt 1
By the end of the 1960s, Jack Kirby had had enough of Marvel. He felt that the company had not
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Deconstructing Comics #720: ‘The Other 1980s’
There were several landmark comics titles in the 1980s (do we really need to name them?), but unfortunately they tend
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Deconstructing Comics #719: ‘Demon Slayer’
The latest manga sensation is Koyoharu Gotouge‘s Demon Slayer. Both the manga and the anime have broken records (including in
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” moves on to the second Avengers movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Tim reveals
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Deconstructing Comics #718: ‘No One Else’
After years of putting her life on hold to care for her father, he passes on. How does she react?
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Deconstructing Comics #717: ‘Chad in Amsterdam’ #6
Chad Bilyeu, an American living in Amsterdam, has been a favorite of ours over on Critiquing Comics for the past
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Deconstructing Comics #716: 1950s ‘World’s Finest’ Might Be “World’s Goofiest”
If you’re not into the drama of the past few decades of DC Comics, come with us back to the
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Deconstructing Comics #715: Comics Adaptations — ‘Dune’ (1984) And ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ (1992)
Sometimes comics adaptations of movies can have as much, or more, significance than the films themselves. Marvel’s 1984 adaptation of
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Deconstructing Comics #714: Debbie Jacobson
Ghosting is about a bus driver in a budding relationship with a woman who suddenly disappears from his life. Has
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Deconstructing Comics #713: ‘Second Coming’ Comes Back
Mark Russell & Richard Pace‘s Second Coming stirred up controversy before it even came out, because it was a comic
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Deconstructing Comics #712: San Diego Comic-Con Begins
San Diego Comic-Con has always been about more than comics! That’s the contention of producer and journalist Mathew Klickstein, who
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
“Tim Catches Up with the MCU” continues with our look at Guardians of the Galaxy. How does it rank in
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Deconstructing Comics #711: Tom Scioli’s ‘Kirby’
Tom Scioli’s Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics is a bio in comics form and written
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Deconstructing Comics Special: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
In this episode of “Tim Catches Up with the MCU”, Tim and Mulele discuss the political thriller Captain America: The
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Deconstructing Comics #710: Naoki Urasawa’s ‘Pluto’
You’re probably aware of the Osamu Tezuka character Astro Boy (called Tetsuwon Atom in Japan). Starting in 2003, Naoki Urasawa
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Deconstructing Comics #709: ‘Air Gear’
Shonen manga are known for putting their protagonists in systems that they must work their way up through in a
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Deconstructing Comics #708: Aaack! ‘Cathy’ Is Still Relevant!
Cathy Guisewite‘s longrunning comic strip Cathy is still a topic of discussion eleven years after it ended. While it may
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