One of the big differences between American comics and manga is that the characters can grow old and pass their mantle on to their children, friends tell me. Should American creators follow suit?
Author: Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall creates the Wayne's Comics Podcast. He’s interviewed Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, John Layman, Kyle Higgins, Phil Hester, Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray, David Petersen, Christos Gage, Mike Grell, and Matt Kindt. On this site each week, he writes his "Comics Portal" column (general comics comments and previews) and reviews comics.
Legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is teaming up with accomplished writer and artist Bruce Zick to explore an unchartered corner of the Hellboy universe in Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time, the debut issue is due out on October 22 from Dark Horse Comics! Bruce talks with Wayne about his much-anticipated mini-series this week in Episode #708!
This past Wednesday, one of the longest-running comic books achieved quite the milestone when Detective Comics from DC published issue #1100!
This week in Episode #707, Wayne talks with Melissa F. Olson from Ahoy Comics’ Archaic trade paperback, which arrives in stores on September 17, 2025.
The House of Ideas has been up to some very interesting things lately, and the most recent of those took place this past Wednesday when they published the first issue of Uncle Scrooge: Earth’s Mightiest Duck!
Joel Rodriguez, creator of Dusk County Chronicles and the founder and CEO of Metal Ninja Studios, returns this week in Episode #706 to talk about their new “Concept to Comic” process that helps turn powerful written stories into stunning comics.
How popular is Spider-Man? Well, even his sworn enemy, Venom, is changing his appearance to look more like him!
This week Episode #705 features the return of Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, an accomplished editor and a co-writer/co-creator of The Shepherd, an ongoing Indie OGN series.
DId you happen to miss the Amalgam Universe when it first arrived? Well, you are getting another chance at it, including a reprint of the original Spider-Boy book coming soon to a local store near you!
Dracula’s Brunch Club is coming to booksellers and hopefully local comics shops this month, so writer/co-creator Brian Gonsar joins Wayne to discuss this highly anticipated middle-aged reader graphic novel, Brian’s very first, this week in Episode #704.
Well, another San Diego Comic-Con is in the books! I have to say that MajorSpoilers did yet another excellent job of keeping us fans informed about what went on there! However, one company really caught my attention again!
High-power creator Richard Pace, from Ahoy’s Second Coming, DC’s Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, and much more, joins Wayne this week to talk the new Zoop.gg crowdfunding for Idle Hands: The Art of Richard Pace in Episode #703.
Starting this week, on July 24, and continuing until July 27, the ultimate event for comics and popular arts takes place—San Diego Comic-Con!
Drew D. Lenhart from Caspian Porter joins Wayne this week to talk about the upcoming Celestial Knight Versus Caspian Porter crossover from Homebrewed Comics in Episode #702.