Comic artist Joshua Middleton rocks our multiverse

Sez Wikipedia: Eisner Award nominee Joshua Middleton (a comic book artist currently exclusive to DC Comics) “is one of the few artists in American mainstream comics who does everything from pencils to coloring by himself, instead of splitting the work between multiple people.”
His artwork, seen below,is stunning. Find more at his site and blog.

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The Millennium Canon #3 — SCUD: THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN: THE WHOLE SHEBANG

In this ongoing series, author Jared Axelrod showcases the new classics of sequential art.  His criteria: the work must have a complete story, was published after Dec 31, 1999, and must be awesome.
The Millennium Canon — Scud: The Disposable Assassin: The Whole Shebang by Rob Schrab, Dan Harmon, and Mondy Carter
So, in like Scud: The [...]

Long-running newspaper comic “reboots” … for the better

If you’ve read the newspaper comics page in the last three decades, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve come across Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse, a strip chronicling the lives of Elly and John Patterson, a suburban Canadian family, and their children Michael, Elizabeth, and April. The strip (unlike most) aged the characters [...]

Casting call: “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!” … The Movie

Youngster gamers will never be able to understand just how effing amazing the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System was for us latchkey kids of the 1980s (between the NES, G.I. Joe cartoons and cable TV, we were good little TV-addicted zombies). The NES was a bona-fide phenom back then, and its graphics and gameplay were [...]

The Millennium Canon #2 — BERLIN: CITY OF STONES

In this ongoing series, author Jared Axelrod showcases the new classics of sequential art.  His criteria: the work must have a complete story, was published after Dec 31, 1999, and must be awesome.
The Millennium Canon — Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
Last night, I almost collided with a slight, bald man with a patchy [...]

“F Chords” webcomic gets an A+

So you’ve played Guitar Hero a million times already, and man-oh-man, are you a pro, shredding those chords and turning those colored buttons into molten plastic. Our advice: put down that guitar, turn off the game console, and get your Web browser over to read F Chords, the latest webcomic by Kris Straub.
F Chords is [...]

“Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe” vid makes us believe a man can die … er … FLY

While a great many of us MINERS are comic book nerds of the highest order (you really don’t want to hear the “Marvel vs. DC” rants we get into here at MINE HQ … especially when the intern in the corner keeps shouting “Image!” at the top of his lungs, poor schmuck), we do our [...]

The Millennium Canon #1 – THE FILTH

The Millennium Canon – The Filth by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine
I love comics.  I love talking about comics.  But the trouble with talking about comics is the same titles keep getting thrown about. Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and Maus are great comics all, but they were published twenty years ago.  It is, quite [...]