House of M Omnibus (Marvel Comics)
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A generous collection of all the stories of Marvel’s popular “House of M” X-Men storyline.
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1000 Years of Manga by Brigitte Koyama-Richard
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A lavishly-illustrated history of the popular comics form.
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All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk
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The vast continuity of Marvel Comics gets a lovingly dorky Unified Field Theory.
Read MoreYoung Avengers by Gillen & McKelvie
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A new paperback collects one of the most enjoyable runs on Marvel’s “Young Avengers” comic.
Read MoreCursed by Thomas Wheeler
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A raw, often brutal book told in a taut prose-line and is copiously illustrated by comics legend Frank Miller.
Read MoreJonathan Hickman's Return to Marvel's X-Men
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House of X #1 is truly a conundrum of empowerment, silence, and fear.
Read MoreDear Justice League by Michael Northrop
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Northrop’s writing exactly matches the upbeat humor of Duarte’s visuals.
Read MoreBram Stoker's Dracula
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By far the best thing to come of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the comic-book mini-series back in 1992.
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Stan Lee
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If you only know his name from The Avengers franchise, you’re missing the point entirely.
Read MoreBlack Star Renegades by Michael Moreci
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Off to a running start, Michael Moreci's debut novel Black Star Renegades opens with young provincial nobody Luke Skywalker, whose backwater planet Tatooine is in the grip of the evil Empire. Despite Luke's humble origins, wise old Jedi Knight Ben Kenobi believes he's a figure chosen by destiny to wield an enormous power against the Empire. Ben Kenobi takes Skywalker into tutelage, but the two of them fall in with a group of rogues and scoundrels and droids, and their plans are almost derailed. Luke falls in love with a tough young woman who. . .
Read MoreBatman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
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In the great hierarchy of book genres, the media tie-in novel occupies a tier decidedly close to the bottom: higher than coloring books or street maps, but lower than, say, Jesus, Life Coach.
Read MoreThe Twilight(ing) of the Superhero
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The principle of sexual selection, wrote naturalist Charles Darwin, deals with “the advantage which certain individuals have over others of the same sex and species solely in respect of reproduction.” A peacock’s tail, its marvelous length and iridescence sculpted by female choice, is the iconic example. Beetle horns, the elaborate nests of bower birds, and even the human brain, engine of art, music and speech, further illustrate the power of a positive feedback loop. The more refined a trait, the better suited to attracting mates shall a specimen be. Life, when not about brute struggle, becomes both beauty pageant and talent show.
Read MoreGordon's Alive!
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Way back in the beneficent 1950s – in 1954, to be exact – there appeared on the metal spinner-rack of Trow's Paper Goods (in a sleepy little Iowa town with neither bookstore nor library) a slim thing of wonder: a new comic book called Jungle Action #1. For the asking price of 10 cents, the reader could thrill to the exploits of Leopard Girl, Jungle Boy, and an enormous and bad-tempered Gorilla named Man-oo the Mighty. But for the real connoisseur of jungle adventure, the star of the issue was a muscular young man named Lo-Zar, Lord of the Jungle.
Read MoreNo Strange Quirk of Fate
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Time-lapse photography is a miraculous thing. Like a superpower, it changes our relationship to the mundane, revealing life lived at a different pace. Desolate winter, for example, can become lush spring in seconds. Likewise, a teenager can age one day a second for four years (her hair tossing as if in a storm, the minutia of her life cascading across her bedroom walls).
When lovingly executed, time-lapse footage haunts and inspires. Details blur to give us impossible perspectives. Grander patterns and unconventional theories surface in the mind. No matter the subject, we see reflected the familiar elements of life. But what dances before us does so with a strange life of its own.
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