This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. MUTATION VECTORS Status Update Work on the Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Speculator zine continues apace. Here’s the line art for the cover by Elinore Edge: Podcast: Steve Gerber double feature: Void Indigo and The Legion of Night First Sewer … Read more
Today we’re continuing our exploration of the history of the Dark Age of Comics, but we’re jumping around the timeline a little bit to look at a couple things written by Steve Gerber: The Legion of Night with art by Whilce Portacio, and Void Indigo with art by Val Mayerik. Subscribe to the podcast feed … Read more
Mutation Vectors This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update Just taking a break from everything else on my plate to plug the last podcast episode and share a few thoughts on some recent media. Sewer Mutant Podcast: Tribute to Glen Hammonds, the most … Read more
This one’s a mini-episode, with me going solo again to talk about the late Glen Hammonds, an obscure figure in the development and popularization of Outlaw Comics. Hammonds, who passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2020, was the proprietor of the comics retailer, wholesaler, and publisher Raw Comics and was a legit patron of the … Read more
We’re finally diving into Frank Miller’s Ronin this episode. Love him or hate him, you can’t really talk about the Dark Age of Comic Books without talking about Miller. His work on Daredevil and Dark Knight Returns are two of the most important touchstones for the emergence of the period. But Ronin is arguably more … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update Just a quick one to plug a few things. Sewer Mutant Above: An excerpt from Memento Amoris by Kurt Belcher from the forthcoming Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Spectacular print zine. There are two more previews on … Read more
I went solo for this episode to talk about how the Dark Age of Comic Books, from the mid-1980s to 2000, was also the age of imprints, from Marvel’s Epic and Star to DC’s Vertigo and Milestone to Image’s Wildstorm and Extreme Studios. One note: After I recorded, John pointed out that Marvel’s Midnight Sons … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. MUTATION VECTORS Status Update I’m back from a wedding in Texas and some time visiting in-laws in Wyoming. This was, thankfully, not a fucked up wedding. But I’m having a bit of a time getting back into the … Read more
We’re joined by artist and illustrator Elinore Edge to talk about the first two volumes of ElfQuest: Fire and Flight and Forbidden Grove. We talk about the epic series’ themes of home and belonging, Wendy Pini’s incredible art and how it stood out against a sea of “house style” art from the big two, and … Read more
This is the latest Mutation Vectors newsletter. Subscribe now to receive it by email every few weeks. Status Update The first pages for the Sewer Mutant Cyberpunk Spectacular zine are coming in and I’m really excited about it. Somewhere early in my adult life I stopped getting excited about things and started getting anxious instead. … Read more