Jessica Plummer has lived her whole life in New York City, but she prefers to think of it as Metropolis. Her day job is in books, her side hustle is in books, and she writes books on the side (including a short story in Sword Stone Table from Vintage). She loves running, knitting, and thinking about superheroes, and knows an unnecessary amount of things about Donald Duck. Follow her on Twitter at @jess_plummer.
In 1962, a Fantastic Four movie was made that by all appearances is amazing. Tragically, we can’t see it, because it took place in a comic.
If you're wondering what a "retcon" is or just how and why comics can jump from issue #14 to #642, we've got just the explainer for you.
Comics continue to have a whitewashing problem and it needs to be addressed. It's a systemic issue that needs to be nipped in the bud.
The history of comics corner boxes is basically the history of superhero comics, but only one inch tall.
How odd do you think comics made for ~20 years about Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis got? If you guessed "pretty odd," you'd be right.
We know Marvel's Thor now as the lovable space-dwelling god of thunder, but his start in comics was completely different.
In this series, I look at the first appearances of iconic superheroes to see what’s familiar and what’s goofy as heck. Today: Batman!
Here's what we know so far about the the upcoming The Batman, Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom movies.
This is actually a story of a teenage girl being groomed and manipulated by a much (much, much) older man. Y’all, it’s creepy.
From the banning of vampire comics to the new Morbius movie, here's how vampires have appeared in Western comics in the last 100 years.