Deadshirt is Reading: Green Arrow, Dark Knight Returns, andCivil War!

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. Andrew Niemann is reading… Green Arrow #1 Written by Benjamin Percy Art by Otto Schmidt Colored by Otto Read More …

X-Education With Professor K: Wolverine #1-4 (1982)

With the release of the first X-Men film in 2000, audiences not only witnessed the dawn of the modern day superhero film boom, but also the beginning of a complicated franchise that would span sixteen years and nine films. With X-Men: Apocalypse on the horizon, Kayleigh Hearn and a Read More …

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is Stylish but Uneven [Review]

In the second installment of director Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s comics, slick visuals reign as the streamlined glory of the first film is muddied by a jumbled storyline. Its release delayed for nearly a year, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For flickers across the silver Read More …

Deadshirt Is Reading… Foxes, Raccoons, & Dames

Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on a diverse array of comics, from name-brand cape titles to creator-owned books to webcomics. Christina Harrington is reading… The Fox: Freak Magnet (TPB) Written by Dean Haspiel Read More …

Going Back to the Future with Miller and Simonson’s Robocop Versus The Terminator [Review]

Inter-company crossovers are something of a hallowed tradition in comics. Publishers like Marvel and DC would temporarily put aside their winking sniping and publish high page count, low continuity one-shots like Superman Vs. The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century or The Uncanny X-Men and The New Read More …