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April 22, 2008:
CWN and the Grand Finale! -

February 4, 2008:
In Conclusion - David ends his CWN run with Tezuka's MW from Vertical

February 2, 2008:
Acting Like You Have Nothing to Prove -

February 2, 2008:
The Shoegazer Returns - A New Year Begins, And Our Narrator Makes A Pledge

January 30, 2008:
Tim's Reviews -

September 13, 2007:
Wizard World Chicago Loot, Part One - Stykman, Empty Chamber, the Ztarian Saga, and yes, Little Bunny Foo Foo

February 15, 2007:
I Come Not to Bury Nick Cage... - But to mourn the death of my punchline

November 20, 2006:
The End - Rich's last Chicks & Romance

November 8, 2006:
Joann Sfar's Klezmer - And a Front Racks Hiatus

October 4, 2006:
This Month's Guest: Dave Gibbons - From the pages of Elephantmen!

September 18, 2006:
Back in Berlin - or How I spent my summer

July 29, 2006:
KICKING UP A STORM - An interview with David Lloyd

June 19, 2006:
You Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me. - Graeme looks at Spidey's "genies"

December 18, 2005:
Disappointed - Sad news for fans of Busiek's CONAN, Stephen King, and others

December 13, 2004:
JUSTICE UNPLUGGED 2 at last !!! - By Fabrice Sapolsky & Xavier Fournier

December 2, 2004:
THE TWELFTH AND FINAL STEP - Say it ain't so, Dan.

November 23, 2004:
The importance of editing -

September 29, 2004:
Mystery and Conundrum indeed! - Where in the world is Jason Pomerantz?

September 13, 2004:
Hello and Goodbye and Hello Again - Change is in the air at CWN and it smells sweet.

August 12, 2004:
The Rise of the Web Toon - New Business Model or Dumb Luck?

July 30, 2004:
The Name Says it All... - Spin Doctors revamp Boomerang.

July 27, 2004:
Bigger Isn't Always Better -

June 8, 2004:
Pre-emptive Strike: MoCCA Arts Festival - Looking forward to the con, rather than looking back at it

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

The perfect superhero team comic

I haven't heard much from Alternative Comics lately, so it was nice to hear about their upcoming book by Jon Lewis (Robin), Power of Six: Twisted Apples. What's more, it sounds really good.

Lewis got his Robin gig at DC thanks to his indie work on Ghost Ship and the Ignatz-nominated, Xerix-winning True Swamp. In Alternative's press release, Lewis explains how Robin led to Power of Six: "While I was writing a mainstream superhero title, I tried to make the material as personal as I could while still obeying the strictures and conventions you have to obey to work in that world. It was fun work, but I was also building up notebooks full of story ideas I knew I could never use in that job. Not because they were too obscene or weird-- these ideas were just geared very closely to what I myself would want from a superhero comic, so I could never do them without complete control of the story."

He goes on to say that "it isn't a satire or deconstruction of superhero teams -- it's simply the superhero team book I would want. So it's tangled up with all the bizarre shared houses I lived in in my twenties, and the adversity comes not so much from supervillains or paramilitaries as from supernatural mysteries, because that's what interests me."

As reluctant as I am to try new superhero comics, the idea of one that's written from a personal level (as opposed to just trying to imitate DC and Marvel's successes) is intriguing.

Power of Six will be a series of self-contained, graphic-novel length stories, each broken into two or three parts. "Twisted Apples" is the 48-page first part of a two-part story. It costs $4.95.