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Image Expo 2012: Berkeley Publisher to Spotlight Creator-Owned Comics at February Event

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

"Captain America": Hokey, Hacky Exercise in Franchise Building

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

"Thor": Dull Comic Book Adaptation Has No Thunder, No Lightning

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

"Stone": Edward Norton talks about his new criminal buddy pic with Robert De Niro

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

"Iron Man 2" will lead to 3, but that doesn't mean it's good

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

A sleepy follow-up to Training Day, Brooklyn's Finest cops out

With WonderCon temporarily relocating to Anaheim in 2012 due to the Moscone remodel, Bay Area comics creators, publishers, and fans despaired of going without a major con in the region during the coming year. But Image Comics has come to the rescue. The Berkeley-based publisher of The Walking Dead, ... More >>

Halloween Clips: The Ten Scariest Music Videos of All Time

1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? ... More >>

He Would Have Loved to Hate the New Star Trek

1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? ... More >>

Remembrance of Demons Past

The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz.

Capturing the Castle

Punisher: War Zone kicks ass. And then it kicks some more ass.

X-Factor

How comic book heroes could play a part in local politics.

Jonathan Lethem Speaks in SF

How comic book heroes could play a part in local politics.

On Comics: Barry Gets Own Book; Will Probably Beat Up Superman

How comic book heroes could play a part in local politics.

The Not Terrible Hulk

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing.

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Based on a Totally True Story

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Hell on Wheels

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

Classic Coke

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Spin

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

Deep Thoughts by Redford

Ghost Rider will drive you up the wall.

It Was Comic

"There's a certain percentage of people who freak out when they find out who I am."

Moonbat Is on the Air

Conservative radio host tries to teach Infiltrator rules of right-wing punditry

The Little Animation Company That COULD

After struggling uphill in the difficult yet potentially profitable world of computer animation films, Wild Brain is on the cusp of success

Department of What the Fuck?

Thunder on the Tundra: Heavy-metal Thor kicks everyone's ass!

Go Bats

Old-fashioned action

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 28, 2002

The Fanboy Crusade

Why a San Francisco comic-shop owner is trying to sue the pants off of Spider-Man's owners -- to the tune of $18 million

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

The Brave and the Bold

On Sept. 11, the world needed superheroes. They found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Custody Battle

Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight

Win, Lose, or Draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Revenge of The Fanboy

Alex Ross, painter of supermen and superwomen, makes it easy to believe in heroes

Stuff: Fatal Femmes

Why do women in comics become Women in Refrigerators?

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Blood Sucker

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Night Crawler

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Night+Day

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Letters

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Barbarian at the Gate

Heavy-metal titan Glenn Danzig inaugurates his own comic book line with Verotik Publishing