Comic books, and my deep passion for the medium, seem to by cyclical in nature. There are times when it seems that the creative teams are firing on all cylinders and can do no wrong. And then there are times when reading my monthly stack of floppies seems to be a chore, something that I do...

Frank Miller’s rant on his blog about the Occupy movement is all the talk this week on the comics interwebs.  It immediately brought to mind a 52Q about whether creator personalities and views affect enjoying their work. Miller was and is a big name in the comic world, but he’s...

I assume that most comic book fans have seen the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy.  Basically it’s about Ben Affleck chasing after a girl.  What makes it relevant to comic book fans is Ben Affleck’s character is a comic book artist.  Jason Lee’s character, his co-creator, is...

The other day I was surfing around on Bleeding Cool News.  While I was reading a couple of articles, I saw on the bottom of the screen a section for most viewed pics.  I saw the picture shown above and clicked on it.  I thought it was a new take on Justice League until I actually looked at...

Last week the Twitter-verse was all a twitter about Marvel laying off 15 staffers.  I found one news blog about the financial situation of Marvel and the working conditions there. To tell the truth I was shocked of what I read. Here are some of the crazy ones. “Marvel’s new offices...

Last week a picture of Anne Hathaway’s costume was posted on our Facebook page.  The question was asked “What do you think?” When I saw the picture, I wasn’t blown away by it (even though Anne Hathaway is beautiful).  It isn’t the best Catwoman costume that has...

So I was looking at the latest Previews and saw this picture in the Marvel section: I can understand not wanting to give away too much of a key plot point or whatever but how is any customer supposed to know if they want to order this? Or how is any local comic shop supposed to know how many...

The National Post has an excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It’s a great piece on comic strips, imagination and where that takes us.  Perhaps if Atwood had kept up the drawing Seth and Cooke would have some competition as Canada’s...

I don’t know if you’ve seen this elsewhere yet, but this article really struck a chord with me.  Reuters had a story about Herbert Chavez, a Filipino designer who is a huge Superman fan.  He’s had body modifying surgery to make himself look more like his idol,...

Has anybody noticed that in the middle of the unstoppable juggernaut of publicity that is the new DC#1s or the ubiquitous Fear Itself tie-in fest, there is a really good little Spider-Man story going on? Spider-Island is being done exactly how cross-overs should be done: it has a solid, clear...

Art is what makes a comic book a comic book. Without it, we would just have a bunch of words in a script and in which case we might as well read a book. All of us have our favourite comic book artists for various reasons. I’m sure many of us can intuitively recognize a comic artist’s style...

Terribly sorry for the large intervals between articles but I’ve been held captive by Dr Doom, much like the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Children Crusade! Why doesn’t the Asbestos Man have cancer yet? Professor Orson Karloff was one of the Human Torch’ nemesis back in the early days of...

Apologies for the hiatus but we’re backing with another mindnumbing installment of Why are we thinking about this? What happens to size-changing superheroes that eat before size alterations? In Marc Millar’s Ultimates, it is specifically stated by the Wasp to not eat food before...

My apologies for the delay in getting this week’s column up. But our comments are up and running so let us know what you think of Why are we thinking about this? and chime in with your suggestions and beliefs on this week’s topics! In Asterix the Gaul; how come Getafix doesn’t...

Welcome back to another ever so intellectually fulfilling and challenging discussion of the weirdest and inane topics to come out of comics ever! This week we continue to toe the line a little more and more as we are plumbing the depths of our superhero curiosities. How come some superheroes...

Apologies dear readers for the long hiatus that this column of inane thought has accidentally taken. But we’re back for now and ready to think of even more stupid superhero problems.   Why doesn’t the Flash fall through the floor when he vibrates?   Alrighty, Flash fans or DC readers in...

It’s time for another week of comic insanity on Why are we thinking about this? Is Cyclops colorblind? Alright, so we know that Cyclops wears a ruby quartz visor all the time or else he blows the crap out of stuff. This brings up the question: Does Cyclops see everything in red? If you took...

It’s time for another week of comic insanity on Why are we thinking about this? How does Superman fly? So in the old days back at the origin of Superman, his powers weren’t as well developed as they are now. Back then, he mainly was invulnerable and super-strong. He couldn’t even fly, he...

It’s time for another week of comic insanity as it’s a X-Men themed week on Why are we thinking about this? Where do the X-Men get their clothes from? Ahh, the many colorful costumes of the X-Men are as varied as they are outrageous. From Wolverine’s bright yellow banana suit to...

Time for another installment of Why are we thinking of this? Where we look at some of the bizarre things we can think about for comic book characters. Does Superman pass gas in a super-way? Everything about Superman is super in someway, he’s got super-strong, heat vision, freeze breath,...