The Spirit

Darwyn Cooke’s impact on the medium of comics will never be forgotten as he brought the heroes of Golden Age and Silver Age to the children of the Internet Age, and my thoughts and those of the rest of the Pop Optiq comics team are with his family and friends. The best way to remember him is to support, marvel at, enjoy, and, most of all, smile at the comics and films he made, and much of his work from his DC stories to his Parker graphic novels is easily available on Comixology.

Basher Bains isn’t a nice man. Caged like an animal in State Prison, he cannot stand the Christmas music that is being piped into his cell over the prison’s P.A. system. If there is anything this con wants to hear on this Christmas, it isn’t “Silent Night.” That is until he hears a noise from …

Rocketeer/Spirit: Pulp Friction #4  Writers: Mark Waid Art: J Bone Colors: Rom Fajardo Publisher: IDW Comics With most of the detective and leg work out of the way, Mark Waid and J. Bone get to cut loose with big panel action sequences and make their final statements about the similarities and differences between The Spirit …

The Rocketeer/The Spirit: Pulp Friction #2 Writer: Mark Waid Penciller: Loston Wallace Inker: Bob Wiacek Colorist: Hi-Fi Publisher: IDW Action. Adventure. Beautiful women with dimples on their cheeks. Rocketeer/Spirit #2 is stuffed full of nostalgia and clearly draws from the comics and film serials of the 1930s while adding deeper characterization and an interesting, if highly unlikely …

Will Eisner did more than any other creator to alter the public’s perception of comics during the 1970s and 1980s. By coining, or, at the very least, popularizing, the terms “graphic novel” and “sequential art”, Eisner helped to lead the medium out of the wilderness of the subcultural trash heap and across the Red Sea …

Best of the Spirit (1940-1946) Writer/Artist: Will Eisner Publisher: DC Comics Even though he featured in comic strips rather than monthly comic books, The Spirit, created by a twenty-three year old Will Eisner during the Golden Age of Comics, became one of the most influential superheroes ever. Eisner could tell a complete mystery/adventure/action story in seven …