Syncretism is the process by which different mythological traditions merge and assimilate as cultures interact, like when stories of Mercury and Hermes started sounding like stories of the same person. Welcome to Ten Things: Ten Mythical God Pairs!
Browsing: New Teen Titans
In my last column, I explored what comic books wanted to be when they grow up. Well, there was one thing I didn’t get into so I thought I would talk about it this time on a holiday weekend in the States—what I refer to as “the importance of reading.”
This past week, the comics industry lost one of its biggest supporters—my identical twin brother, Randy Hall. We need more fans to keep comics going!
The New Teen Titans have fallen apart… are you ready for the NEW New Teen Titans? Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of New Teen Titans #20 awaits!
The legends say they not only saved lives… they saved DC Comics. Are you ready for the NEW Teen Titans? Your Major Spoilers (Retro) Review of DC Comics Presents #26 awaits!
Sometimes, you want to convey two things at once, but you still want that cool one-word name. Fortunately, there’s a solution for that. Welcome to Ten Things: Ten Portmanteau Super Names!
In 1973, ‘The Brady Bunch’ welcomed a new addition, a young boy named Oliver. It was a truly bad idea that somehow still ends up being reused over and over. Welcome to Ten Things: Ten Cousin Oliver Characters!
Plucked from the lost world of Earth-1, the New Teen Titans have been thrust into…
The Pre-Crisis and Tangent universes take the spotlight this week in DC Comics’s Convergence event,…
In 1984, or so the story goes, DC Comics was in dire straits. The company was bleeding money, very few of their iconic characters seemed very relavant, and there were, apparently, rumors that DC would be no more within months… Then, Marv Wolfman and George Perez launched ‘The New Teen Titans,’ a book that took DC’s kid sidekicks, added a dash of X-Men-style plotting, and managed to generate a bona fide classic (and, some say, bringing DC back from the brink.)
The Teen Titans have been around for a long time, and during the 1980s The…
I ended up having a lot of people drop by the house this past weekend…
Here is the New Comic Release list for comics scheduled to be in stores May…
In issue #10 of the The Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew gave their recommendations of…