Frank Miller

It's Not Every Day You Get to See an Original Calvin and Hobbes Piece In Person. (Or Buy It.)

Courtesy Heritage AuctionsOne of the few Calvin and Hobbes originals ever to come on the auction market's now residing at the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple. For now.​That was quite the Heritage Auctions infomercial ABC aired during prime-time last night: Unfair Park's cross-the-street neighbor got ... More >>

Holy Half a Million, Batman, That Dark Knight Art Sure Did Set a Record at Auction Last Night

Everyone scoffed when Barry Sandoval said this Batman would go for $100,000 in March. Though, technically, he was way off.​At the end of March, Heritage Auction Galleries invited some of us to walk across Oak Lawn to take a long, hard look at a never-before-offered original Frank Miller splash pag ... More >>

Wherein Heritage Invites the Dork Knights Over to See Frank Miller's Original Dark Knight

A close-up look at the Frank Miller Dark Knight going on sale in May for the very first time​From time to time, Heritage Auction Galleries' public relations director Noah Fleisher extends us the invite to walk across Oak Lawn Ave. to sneak a peek at some of the latest items on the auction block. I ... More >>

Battle Royale

See 300 Spartans represent at the Inwood

Fuzz Busters

Car Lust

Take a ride with Forza 2, the greatest car sim ever

Man-on-Man Action

It's Spartan hotties vs. Persian trannies in 300

Gary Cogill Will Put You To Sleep, Apparently

Future Imperfect

Renaissance is black and white and a little dead all over

Living in Sin

The Inwood Theatre gets graphic

Love the Sin

Sweat Along with Russell

New releases available this week

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

Dream On

Neil Gaiman returns to his influential, beloved Sandman

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

Dr. Strange

Grant Morrison's the best writer in comics--and maybe the oddest

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Paradise Found

Terry Moore's characters aren't super heroes, but they'll hang out with some this weekend

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

Dirty Pictures

The city will go to great lengths to keep you from seeing women having sex with trees

Pain & Ink

Creatively, comic books are healthier than they've ever been. So why is everyone rushing to bury the industry?

Win, lose, or draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Revenge of The Fanboy

Alex Ross, painter of supermen and superwomen, makes it easy to believe in heroes

Letters

Wonder women; Cool Kidd; Give it a rest

Fatal femmes

Why do women in comics become Women in Refrigerators?

Dead on Arrival

Big-screen Spawn is as flat as a comic-book page

Batman on ice

Joel Schumacher, not Mr. Freeze, kills the Dark Knight

Time is not on your side

Real time movies like Nick of Time are the clever antithesis of real cinema

Paint it Black

Haunted by his mother's suicide, Dallas-born artist barron Storey has won fame drawing the darkness

Batman finally

Joel Schumacher's Caped Crusader epic proves the third time's the charm