Villains Month: Brick Top
Some of my favorite villains are the ones it’s harder to see coming. For example, if someone in a story is covered in scars, wears […]
Month: October 2012
Villains Month: Dr. Destiny
Neil Gaiman’s comic series Sandman is not, on the whole, about good and evil. It relates much more to stories, mythology, beings tethered to ideas […]
The Best Toys of NYCC 2012!
New York Comic Con 2012 is now officially in the history books, and boy-howdy was it spectacular. Rarely do geeks in the Tri-State area have […]
Villains Month: The Mooninites
Okay, I am breaking my own rules here somewhat, since the Mooninites are not exactly serious villains. Still, based on the fact that I love […]
Villains Month: Yurimaru
Part of the reason that Ninja Scroll is my favorite anime of all time is because of its villains. The Eight Devils of Kimon are […]
Cosplay at NYCC!
Images of some of the best cosplay we’ve seen at NYCC!
Villains Month: Count Olaf
Villains in children’s stories often wind up played for laughs rather than menace. The idea, I think, is to teach children that being selfish and […]
Villains Month: Jan Valentine
Genuinely funny villains are probably more rare than they should be. I suppose it relates to the idea that villains are supposed to be scary […]
Villains Month: Metal-Masked Assassin
While the animated series Metalocalypse is first and foremost a comedy, it has a fairly dense and complex mythology (which I may have written about […]
Near Mint Radio – Comic Book Video Games
Everyone talks about movies based on comic books, which were once universally terrible and have became pretty amazing, but what of the other great comic […]