POP: Culture and Comics

17/03/2023

After 4 years and 1,500+ posts, POP is signing out, after one final, spoiler-free TV REVIEW. It's been fun!

Yes, this is POP's final post. More on that later. But first, our final Review! Superman & Lois, Season 3, Episode 1, "Closer" Superman & Lois returned Tuesday night for its long-awaited (8 months!) Season 3. Filming wrapped on the season earlier this week, and fingers crossed we won't have any pand...

16/03/2023

See why we give BLACK CLOAK #3 from Kelly Thompson and Image Comics a solid 4 POPs out of 5! Don't miss our spoiler-free COMIC REVIEW.

Black Cloak #3. Written by Kelly Thompson. Art by Meredith McClaren. Letters by Becca Carey. It seems surviving murder is pretty easy, if your name is Phaedra Essex, Black Cloak and all around badass. It also really helps if you've got some powerful spellcasters on your side. But, to be fair, that's...

13/03/2023

See how Neal Adams pushed DC to make more dramatic color covers in the POP RETRO COVER CLASSIC, featuring TOMAHAWK from 1969.

The character was more than a bit contrived from the beginning. And a blonde white man nicknamed "Tomahawk" was an insensitive contradiction to be sure. Tom Haukins served under George Washington during the French & Indian War, and was adept with a tomahawk, so "Tomahawk and his Raiders" became lege...

10/03/2023

Want an INDEX to find your favorite FABLES tales? Then this is your lucky day!

Do you like Fairy Tales? Do you wish they had more violence and nudity in? Then you're in the right place! Welcome to the magical world of Bill Willingham's Fables, a multi-award-winning spin on a series of classic stories, or Fables, if you will. Collected in this Index you will find all of my Retr...

09/03/2023

It's Thursday! The day we take another trip back in time with the POP COMICS RETROSPECTIVE, to examine and celebrate our favorites of the past.

Writer/Artist/Letterer: Don Simpson, Colorists: Bill Poplaski, Ray Fehrenbach. I don’t remember when I discovered Megaton Man, but it was definitely more than a few years after the title debuted in 1984 from Kitchen Sink Press. I probably ran across it in a back issue box at a Local Comic Shop. In...

08/03/2023

What makes a POP RETRO COVER CLASSIC? Find out in today's examination and celebration of cover artists that take the time to craft a piece of art.

The Losers #6, 2004, Vertigo Comics (DC imprint), Cover by Jock. The POP Retro Cover Classic continues its examination and celebration of iconic comic covers from the 1960s through the 2000s, this week returning to the Aughts. when DC’s Vertigo Comics imprint was still creating imaginative titles ...

07/03/2023

Don't miss this spoiler-free ADVANCE REVIEW with art sneak peeks and find out why we rate this new Scout Comics title a perfect 5 out of 5 POPs!

Writer & Creator: Brenton Lengel, Illustrator: Hyeondo Park, Letterer: Joel Rodreguez, Cover Artists: Bryan Silverbax & Recolor Jio Butler. I went into Scout Comics’ Snow White Zombie Apocalypse #2 without reading the first issue, an act that sparked anxiety as to whether I’d be completely lost ...

06/03/2023

Don't miss our COMIC REVIEW of the latest issue of the extremely bloody horror comic I HATE THIS PLACE

Written by: Kyle Starks, Art by: Artyom Topilin, Colours by: Lee Loughridge, Letters by: Pat Brosseau. Trudy’s family have managed to gather information as to her whereabouts and now they are leaving a trail of bodies as they hunt her down, determined to get her back to the compound. The religious...

02/03/2023

Believe it or not, FABLES is still being published (!), but our COMICS RETROSPECTIVE of the title ends today. Don't miss our always honest, always entertaining (final) deep dive into Willingham's Wacky World.

Fables Volume 16: Super Team. Collecting Fables #101-107. Written by Bill Willingham. Pencils by Eric Shanower (issue 101) & Mark Buckingham (issues 102 -106 ). Inks by Andrew Pepoy (issue 101, 105) & Steve Leialoha (issues 102-106), Art by Terry Moore (issue 107). Last time around, Rose Red took ce...

01/03/2023

Detective Comics #431, DC Comics, 1973, Art by Michael Kaluta. The POP Retro Cover Classic continues its examination and celebration of comic cover excellence from the 1960s through the 2000s, this week heading back to the 1970s, when DC changed the cover design of Detective Comics to look like vint...

28/02/2023

Find out why we rate Image's upcoming sci-fi epic THE FORGED 4 out of 5 POPs!

Story: Greg Rucka & Eric Trautmann, Art: Mike Henderson, Colors: Nolan Woodard, Letters: Ariana Maher, Design: Eric Trautmann, Edits: Alejandro Arbona. Image Comics' upcoming The Forged #1 initiates a new series steeped in science fiction that revels in brash words and over-the-top violence. In othe...

27/02/2023

Find out why the second issue of Image's 3-issue mini INFERNO GIRL RED gets 3 out of 5 POPs in our spoiler-free COMIC REVIEW!

Artist/Co-creator: Erica D’urso, Writer/Co-creator: Mat Groom, Colourist: Igor Monti, Letterer: Becca Carey. Cassia is still struggling with the fact that she’s now a superhero. Her mum is excited for her that she has this opportunity, although they both know she needs to work on balancing her c...