The Ballad of Jonah Hex: A Musical tribute

Song and video done by Ian Frazier, which is available on iTunes. Snooping around the net I found a tribute to one of western-comics most unique heroes. First appearing in All-Star Western #10 in 1972, Jonax Hex is a scarred bounty hunter who is considered one of DC Comics most unique characters. Created during a [...]

Batman the Musical: Mayhem of the Music Meister

A few weeks ago, an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold was released. The series is already unique for teaming Batman up with a different superhero every week, showing off the extended roster of lesser known DC characters, but the episode Mayhem of the Music Meister was unique in that it was a [...]

Batman is Dead, Long Live Batman

Alright, I’ve been putting this off for a while now. Batman’s dead, that is to say, Bruce Wayne (the guy who played Batman in the Christopher Nolan directed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) is no longer living in the DC comics continuity. The comic series Batman is still going on though, because Bruce’s no-so-young-anymore [...]

Interview with a Geek

This week I interview another geek, Jonny Chandler, a music education major at Towson University, to get an alternative view on comics.

The Ideology of DC and Marvel Comics: Conservative Vs. Progressive

I’ve always thought of the Big Two (DC and Marvel comics, the two largest comics publishers in North America) as being like the Republican and Democratic political parties respectivly. not in terms of politics, but rather as ideologies. DC is conservative, the company ideology is that the heroes they produce are absolute, they are above [...]