Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: Christian takes a brief look at metafiction in comic books, inspired by some panels from the overwhelmingly metafictional issue 40 of EX MACHINA by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris.

FLASHBACK! Take another look at one of last year’s most popular pages here as Marvel’s Daredevil is mixed with Pulp’s “Common People”.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: Christian looks at a page from the current volume of Punisher and finds a nice emotional moment in all that wonderfully ridiculous comic mayhem.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: A brief look at DC’s weekly series 52 before looking at one panel from issue #10 that does more for the marriage of Clark Kent and Lois Lane than years’ worth of stories.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This page from issue #17 of Vertigo’s Northlanders has a lot going for it. Not only is it a great example of Brian Wood’s writing and Vasilis Lolos art, but the page works as an extraordinary piece of nanofiction.

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: Christian takes a look at Ed Brubaker’s writing and David Aja’s art from page #13 of Daredevil #116 (Volume 2), and throws in a little love to Allen Baron’s movie “Blast of Silence” along the way.

I know I already covered this particular issue of All-Star Superman, but as the new year approaches, I couldn’t pass up sharing this beautiful and optimistic page written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely.
This is as good a place as any to call it a year with comics.
See you back here in 2010.

Leave it to writer Grant Morrison to take a hero as hokey as Animal Man and turn his book into a metafictional meditation on the nature of comic book storytelling. In the process, he would give more pathos and dimensions to Animal Man than ever before and establish the seeds to his personality that have carried through to today. When other writers play with Animal Man, they are writing Morrison’s take on the character, which goes to show the mark he left.
Morrison’s 26 issue run on Animal Man is crazy …

This was originally meant to be for an anthology to be published next year. I had written other pieces for the anthology that explored horror movie and police drama cliches, and I thought it would be fun to apply the same thing to comic books. The word limit for the stories were 1000 words, and once I decided to do this story visually, the trick was trying to do this in less than 100 words, for the challenge of it.
If you read comic books, I think you’ll notice the little …

This was originally meant to be for an anthology to be published next year. I had written other pieces for the anthology that explored horror movie and police drama cliches, and I thought it would be fun to apply the same thing to comic books. The word limit for the stories were 1000 words, and once I decided to do this story visually, the trick was trying to do this in less than 100 words, for the challenge of it.
If you read comic books, I think you’ll notice the little …