Behold! It’s Comics Week at The A.V. Club
Comics content is hardly difficult to come by these days, what with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the comparatively straight-forward but time-bending X-Men franchise, and Hollywood’s attempt to squeeze every last dollar from comics stories. Be it because rabid fans demand it or for their own unfathomable reasons, we’re living in a glut of comics leaving pages for screens big and small. So this week, we carve time out for content beyond the endless adaptations. Today we showcase the second-stringer sidekicks, the meta-ness of comics with creators inserting themselves into the pages, and the cautionary tale of a video game adaption.