If you ask DC’s new boss James Gunn, the answer is, of course, Creature Commandos. Wait, creature what-now? Slated to premiere on Max on December 5, Creature Commandos is a new adult-oriented animated ...

"My idea of comedy, humor, irreverent drawing comes from this." Mad began in 1952 as a comic book that made fun of other comic books. But if you came of age during Mad's peak - the sixties ...

Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got six exciting picks, plus a recommendation for a ...

And also adding City Boy, a recent new DC Comics character to the list of Century Babies. He was compared to Jack Hawksmoor before, does this make that official? And is The Hex going to be Jinny Hex?

As a general rule, those wicked biomechanics nightmares known in the "Alien" universe as xenomorphs don’t exactly mix well at holiday gatherings, kids' birthday parties, or luxury beach retreats ...

This duality is a common technique in comedy writing. As comic writer Steve Kaplan notes in The Hidden Tools of Comedy (2013), comedy emerges in the gap between the wavy-line character (the ...

There's only one common thread linking every version of the team in the comics - they're villains masquerading as heroes to further their own agenda. But though the various leaders of the ...