This week, I answer your questions! Because I know stuff! Some, anyway… Linkara asks: What do you feel Dark Horse’s primary market is? I.E. Marvel and DC are primarily superhero stories, Image is a mixture of superheroes plus various other genres usually related to scifi or crime. One of my favorite things about Dark Horse [...]
1. You are a comic-book writer or editor attempting to create a team of superheroes. You are sensitive to diversity issues in comics, but as a heterosexual white man, you are concerned that if you make characters of color, gay characters, or (wonder of wonders!) both, you will be accused of tokenism and appropriation. What [...]
I’m having a vile week, so I’m going to write about something that makes me happy: Kate Corrigan. Kate is a character created by Mike Mignola, although these days, she’s written primarily by John Arcudi and drawn by Guy Davis. She first appeared in Hellboy and is now a regular in spinoff series B.P.R.D. Kate [...]
This past week at work, I got roped into reading for an essay contest. I know, I know. But the topic looked fun–“How Buffy Changed My Life”–and besides, even if there were a few thousand entries, they were all supposed to be 250 or fewer words. So, I read. I was expecting pretty cliché responses, [...]