The Gutter’s own Carol joins Matthew on Bookclub for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast, wherein they discuss public domain superheroes, American public domain law, DC absorbing all it can, masked avengers, scale, Alex Ross and “fun,” and “Time Eggs.” Listen here. And make sure to check out all […]
As part of its massive “reboot,” DC Comics will make Barbara Gordon Batgirl again. This means, though that her 20 year history as Oracle, peerless hacker and information broker with an eidetic memory, leader of The Birds of Prey and one of the few examples of a differently-abled […]
Comics at the Big Two are in rough shape. Greg Burgas and Chris Sims see similar problems (nostalgia, Kurt Busiek) creating more problems (blandness, resistance to change, retcons, killing of heroes of color to replace them with white heroes of the Silver Age…). We noted Chris’ article before, […]