Timothy K Callahan

The Dragon's Rocketship Presents: The Ship's Log

On The Dragon’s Rocketship, tales of things you never knew existed wait to be discovered in every hold, behind every bulkhead, in every passage and accessway—even inside that mysterious crate that just, ‘teleported aboard’, all by itself It’s a very big ship, and the tales within are waiting to be d...

Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide

PLANETARY excavated the secret history of the super-hero genre and in the process helped set that genre's future. KEEPING THE WORLD STRANGE offers an archaeology of the archaeologists, examining PLANETARY and revisionism, decompression, future studies, proactive vs. reactive super-heroes, conception...

Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters

From 1966 to 1968, both on ABC and in theaters, America embraced Batman as a campy cultural icon. But in the ensuing decades, many vilified the show as an embarrassment that needed to be swept under the rug if Batman -- and super-heroes -- were to be taken seriously. Now, we can return to Adam West'...

Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles

Grant Morrison's THE INVISIBLES has been hailed as an ambitious comics masterpiece, the key to Morrison's entire body of work, and the inspiration for THE MATRIX. But it's also frequently written off as incomprehensible. Using a conversational, accessible style, Patrick Meaney (director of GRANT MOR...

Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen

MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT examines WATCHMEN from a variety of perspectives and uncovers surprising answers about the history of scientific theory, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, WATCHMEN's murder mystery, Rorschach and Steve Ditko, the secrets of Captain Metropolis and the Minutemen, whether the Comedia...

Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes

This essay collection, from fans and scholars alike, is as diverse as Legion history. Essays examine significant runs (by Jim Shooter, Paul Levitz, and Keith Giffen); the Legion's science, future architecture, and fashion; the role of women, homosexuality, and race; the early Legion's classical adap...

Grant Morrison: The Early Years

Grant Morrison redefined comics in the 1980s and early '90s, from his trailblazing creation of ZENITH, through his metatextual innovations in ANIMAL MAN, to his Dadaist super-heroes in DOOM PATROL. Along the way, he also addressed Batman with his multi-layered ARKHAM ASYLUM and his literary "Gothic"...

The Arwen Book Two: Manifest Destiny (Volume 2)

The Handlers, a race of centipede like aliens, want nothing less than to rid the universe of all intelligent life. The lifespan of each Handler is longer than most suns and there are countless trillions of them living in Dyson Spheres scattered throughout the galaxy. The Arwen, lead by Captain Marjo...

Fire Service and the Law

Fables (comics)

… Written by novelist and publisher Chris Roberson (another of Willingham and Sturges's fellow Clockwork Storybook alumni) with painted cover art by Chrissie Zullo, the miniseries was drawn by Shawn McManus,[5] and (according to Comic Book Resources ' Timothy Callahan) "answers the question o...