On one level, like Marvel's announcement of Northstar's impending marriage and DC's teasers about a character coming out of the closet are designed to stir up interest and controversy, so it's not much of a surprise when the reactionaries step up to take their shots. Sure enough, "One Million Moms" -- an anti-gay advocacy group with a membership somewhere in the high dozens -- has decided to ...

Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of internet readers have to say. That's why every week, Senior Writer Chris Sims puts his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions! Q: What is your favorite superhero wedding of all time? (I'm pretty sure you're either going to go with Reed & Sue Richards or Big ...

Given our noted love of both Capcom's classic Mega Man games and hip-hop, it pretty much goes without saying that the staff of ComicsAlliance loves Mega Ran, aka Random, aka middle school Language Arts teacher turned rapper Raheem Jarbo. With his latest album, though, Ran takes the video game themes to the next level with Language Arts, a concept album and playable video game that tell the ...

It's been a big week for gay super-heroes. Not only has Marvel's Northstar proposed to his boyfriend in Astonishing X-Men with a wedding set for next month, but DC has started dropping hints that one of their own characters is going to be coming out of the closet in a forthcoming announcement -- and that has kicked off speculation on just who it might be. So if you're in the mood to place a ...

John Ostrander, Kim Yale and Luke McDonnell's run on Suicide Squad in the late '80s is one of my all-time favorite comics, and has a pretty legitimate claim on being the best team book that DC ever published. In the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, it took the unused pieces of the newly unified DC Universe and built obscure villains like Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and Count Vertigo into ...

DC's Silver Age comics get a bad rap sometimes. A lot of people look back on them as silly artifacts of a time when comic book stories were knocked out over lunch hours by people who thought catering to an audience of children meant that they didn't have to make the effort actually make sense, and while that's certainly the case for a few of them, that really sells things short. These were, ...

This week, Marvel has once again requested the honor of your presence at the wedding of two characters, and while a super-hero marriage is always a pretty big affair, this one is going a little further. In tomorrow's Astonishing X-Men #50, Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins are telling the story of Northstar's proposal to his long-time boyfriend Kyle, with a wedding set to follow in next month's ...

We've talked a lot here on ComicsAlliance about the progressive approach to storytelling that Archie Comics has been geared towards over the past few years, but the way that they've embraced digital comics has been every bit as forward-thinking. They've become a major publisher in terms of making their comics available on devices like the iPad, with a pretty massive catalog that's only ...

This week on War Rocket Ajax, writer John Rogers joins the podcast to talk about the new digital comics initiative he's a part of with Mark Waid, Thrillbent! But the interview doesn't stop there, as he tells Chris and Matt about writing Blue Beetle for DC, his take on making Dungeons & Dragons fun for comics, and yes, how he became one of 28 writers credited in the Halle Berry Catwoman ...

As we continue our in-depth look at super-hero movies, Chris Sims and David Uzumeri take on the Superman film franchise. Chris Sims: Welcome back to ComicsAlliance's in-depth review of Supergirl, everyone! David and I have been working on these reviews for quite a while, but I don't think we've ever been quite so mystified as we are by this, and in the second half, it gets even stranger. ...