
ReviewsAnime Series That Earn Their Hype: A Review Roundup
Popularity is easy to measure. Pacing and payoff take work — so that is what we judged.

Popularity is easy to measure. Pacing and payoff take work — so that is what we judged.

The economics behind the remake wave, explained without the hand-wringing.
A knife incident in Portland, a new San Francisco shop, and a Black retailer alliance — here's how to actually use each story.

The unwritten rules of convention floors, lines and artist alleys, explained for first-timers.

Seventeen years and one billion dollars later, comic art and movie props now hang beside Kahlo and Rockwell in Los Angeles.

The industry wrote its own censorship rules in 1954 after a Senate subcommittee leaned on it — here is what the seal banned, who broke it, and how it died in 2011.

Popularity is easy to measure. Pacing and payoff take work — so that is what we judged.

The economics behind the remake wave, explained without the hand-wringing.

A knife incident in Portland, a new San Francisco shop, and a Black retailer alliance — here's how to actually use each story.
A plain-language guide to the numbers on a slabbed comic, and why a 9.8 isn't just a bragging right.
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Start with Batman: Year One (1987, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli), follow it with The Long Halloween (1996–97, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale), and you'll have the modern…
Maus, Persepolis and Fun Home anchor the graphic memoir canon — eight books with novelistic scope and fully documented pedigrees.
Spider-Man TODAY skips comic shops and Marvel Unlimited entirely, landing instead inside a news app's games hub — here's what the 47-week series costs and who's making it.
DC launched its Absolute universe in October 2024 with Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta — a line designed so new readers need zero back issues, and the early sales made it the publisher's biggest bet in years.

Popularity is easy to measure. Pacing and payoff take work — so that is what we judged.

The economics behind the remake wave, explained without the hand-wringing.

A knife incident in Portland, a new San Francisco shop, and a Black retailer alliance — here's how to actually use each story.

The unwritten rules of convention floors, lines and artist alleys, explained for first-timers.