Comics Week

This week’s entry: List Of Anthropomorphic Animal Superheroes

In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music…

When the nominees for the Eisner Awards were announced back in April, I didn’t rush to check them. Not out of any…

By 1995 the Batman movie franchise was on life support. Although Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman was well received by both…

This week: Raina Telgemeier’s Smile, the autobiographical graphic novel that situated Telgemeier as a major force in…

Wonder Woman, billed as “superheroine number one,” was one of the few (only) bright spots in the recent Batman V…

For Comics Week, we take a break from our normally scheduled Comics Panel to bring you our favorite second bananas,…

Comics content is hardly difficult to come by these days, what with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the comparatively…

Rob Schrab’s Scud: The Disposable Assassin is a comic book so thoroughly of its time that it feels like the physical…

Comic books have a long history of real-life creators being thrown into fictional narratives, often in smaller cameo…

Comic books and cinema diverge in plenty of ways, but the ability to use music in the latter may be the most…

Clive Barker published The Hellbound Heart in 1986. Coming off the heels of the author’s highly praised short story…

Have you ever formed a sentence with a sequence of words so random that you had to ask yourself if you were the…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of Comics Week, we’re…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, or, in this case, an A.V.…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

In theory, movies adapted from comic books should be a cinch. After all, they’ve already been completely…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always had a significant technobabble problem. And for the most part, it really…

Superheroes are usually winners, taking home the first-place prize in their respective fields, whether that’s ass…

Comics is experiencing another golden age. What’s exciting about this one is that it’s distinctly contemporary in…