It was so much easier when Captain America could just punch prominent Nazis. Ed Brubaker and Marvel Comics recently came under fire by Fox News due to the characterization of a small town protest group in Captain America #602. In the issue, Bucky and the Falcon, tracking down the faux 1950's Captain America, find themselves in rural Idaho at the center of a gathering anti-government storm. And ...

The NBA has a storied relationship with comic book superheroes. As a league of men who don outlandish costumes are possess physiques, powers and capabilities far beyond their mortal kin, professional basketball players are about the closest thing to real-life super-beings to walk the Earth. And they seem to know it. ESPN's latest "This is SportsCenter" ad spot riffs on Orlando Magic center ...

It's been three years since DC writer Gail Simone ended her epic 50+ issue run on "Birds of Prey," an experience that she once called "physically painful," but we've got big news today that we hope will stop the pain: Simone will be heading back to "Birds of Prey" in 2010. While DC Comics typically thrives on the strength of its universally-recognized icons, Simone used her previous run on ...

Heavy is the hand that wields the hammer. Or something. There's never been a better time for fans that pledge themselves to the Mighty Thor. He's got a top-selling book, a major motion picture active in the works, and a central role in "Siege," Marvel's next major miniseries event. But amidst all of this prospective excitement, a great change has occurred: The much lauded run by writer J. Michael ...

Mashups are mad scientists' greatest legacy to us, the ADD generation, wherein a combination of disparate images and audio work together so effortlessly, they create something wholly new. Lo, and also behold, this Reservoir Dogs/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mashup is one of those instances. Quentin Tarantino's breakout "Reservoir Dogs" script was brazen and unapologetically violent, challenging ...

If you like the movie "District 9," check out Marc Guggenheim's comic book "Resurrection" from Oni Press. "District 9," the summer's unsuspecting breakout blockbuster from producer Peter Jackson, takes alien-invasion tropes and teases them out in innovative, original ways -- something it shares with the Oni Press comic "Resurrection," from TV and comics writer Marc Guggenheim. While the alien ...

The Rec Room: Where ComicsAlliance's Brendan McGuirk uses the stuff you already love to suggest the comics that you will. If you like "Mad Men," then try "Parker: The Hunter." Both the AMC television series and Darwyn Cooke's comic adaptation of the Richard Stark crime novels are highly stylized portrayals of 1960's New York City where men are men, women are foxy and submissive, and the world is ...

Okay, I'm just going to come out and say it. These days, Cyclops is just about the coolest cat with an X-gene. It doesn't sound right, does it? I mean, Scott Summers has a long tradition of being the X-Men's wet blanket. He was the wedge that separated the simmering passions of Wolverine and Jean Grey. He lacked charisma or personality; he was Captain America-lite; he was boring. But in Matt ...

You can't recommend a comic to someone without context -- a broader sense of what they enjoy, in both comics and other media. In the Rec Room, ComicsAlliance uses the graphic novels, books, television and movies that you do know as a gateway to the great comics that you don't. If you like... "The Wire" Try... "Gotham Central" For fans of the HBO drama "The Wire," ComicsAlliance recommends DC's ...