DC Comics – Comic POW!

Baltimore Comic-Con Day 2: Michael Rowe Spotlight

Sep 7, 2016 Eric Mesa

Christy Blanch, who Comic POW! readers will know as the writer of The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood and the professor behind the MOOC that led to the redesign of this…

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Things go Massively Wrong in The Massive

Mar 23, 2016 Eric Mesa

The best thing about the Humble Bundle and other similar deals is that you may go after the bundle for one book that interests you and end up with lots…

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Uneasy Peace: Fables Vol 9

Feb 17, 2016 Eric Mesa

This volume is all over the place. There is a Christmas interlude, we learn of Rapunzel’s plight, and a series of reader questions answered as 1-2 page comics. But the…

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Canadian Vampires, eh? : American Vampire Vol 6

Jan 20, 2016 Eric Mesa

American Vampire has always been more about America than vampires. Because America has always been portrayed as a land of opportunity, it has always attracted those most desperate for that…

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Never Bring a Witch to a Djinn Fight: Fables Vol 7 and 8

Dec 16, 2015 Eric Mesa

At the end of volume 8, we’re just past the 1/3 point without counting the spinoffs. Bill Willingham seems, at this point, to perhaps be following a three act structure.…

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A Masterpiece worth Reading: The Dark Knight Returns

Oct 21, 2015 Eric Mesa

When I started the relaunch of Comic POW! while taking Christy Blanch’s gender dynamics-based comics MOOC, part of the premise was that comics are a product of the times in…

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The Puppetmaster: Fables Volumes 5 and 6

Oct 14, 2015 Eric Mesa

Volume 5 is all over the place, but it does seem to continue to follow Willingham’s trend of providing some thematic respite after a heavy plot. So this volume starts…

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