What happens when our favorite superheroes are attacked using their very own brain?
A personal piece about my last several weeks away from cmx499.
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5 Steps to Help Your Sales on Comixology
Sometimes you have to sell. And that means sometimes you just have to do a few things that you don’t like or don’t want to do to help improve sales.
Stronghold Volume 1
It’s not the suits but the characters wearing them, and the ones that don’t, that completely hold the focus of the story.
cmx499 Interview with Stronghold Creators Brian Visaggio and Kevin Roberts
Insight into the creative and business aspects of independent comic creation.
cmx499 Interview with The Elephant Man Creator Tom Ward
We couldn't have hoped for a better first interview: Tom Ward, creator of Merrick: The Sensational Elephant Man.
Joseph Merrick the Sensational Elephant Man: A Kickstarter Battle Against Occult Evil
Joseph Merrick, the history's Elephant Man, comes alive and battles occult evil in this Kickstarter project.
War of the Woods Season 1
On a journey with their turtle friend and helmet Isaac, Phin and Nathaniel take off to meet with the others (there’s always some sort of committee lead by an owl so I know Petz was forced to use one here). From there we meet a legendary beast with a dark secret, learn more about these alien invaders and meet a group of warrior Canadian Fishers led by the rouge Mur d’eau.
I'm Wrong Too. We Do Need Print.
The problem when we think with our ass is that our ass never does a good job of looking at the whole picture. Or even the truth for that matter.
Not too long ago I read Mark Waid's post on how he "fumbled the ball". Just days ago I read Mark Millar's post about he too got it wrong.
Turns out, so did I.
Wolverine and the X-men #1
Destruction comes easy. Especially in comics. Even more especially in the Marvel Universe where New York gets trashed more often than a freshman on spring break. And no one does it better than James, I mean Logan, I mean Wolverine. The guy took down hell after all.
The Intrinsic - Series
Arcana comics has published a lot of interesting, original series. A good number of those have free #1 issues with the following issues at 99¢. I’ll be giving them reviews for sure. A lot of those reviews will be from books and series that I very much enjoyed.
The Middleman Vol 1 #1
Working as a temp sucks. Crappy pay. Stupid people. Horrible butt cheek monster trying to melt you with nuclear vomit.
Wendy Watson the artist has it all. An illegal sublet she shares. A mother who’s sure that Wendy’s a lesbian with a homosexual boyfriend. A temp job at A.N.D Laboratories.
The Private Eye #1
I’ve always loved great movies that jump right into the action with a taught first sequence that then cuts into the title/credits. Turns out the device works just as well with great comic books.
Page 1: We see behind a camera lense a woman undressing and revealing herself.
Olympic Superhero Events
Just like NHL players during the Olympics change and form short-term teams, what if the studios who own the Marvel movie rights did the same