comic books

With great bookshelves come great responsibilities. For writer and critic Douglas Wolk, that means consuming some 27,000 comic books – the entirety of Marvel Comics’ output spanning more than half a century. And he wrote a book about it: All of the Marvels published October 12.

For many, the pandemic was a time to catch up on modest personal projects. Or, in Douglas Wolk's case, reading every Marvel comic from 1961 to 2017. Wolk summarizes his knowledge and process in his new book All of the Marvels, out now.

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Detroit writer and activist Adrienne Maree Brown pointed out that the experience of Black Americans, is by definition, a story of science fiction.…

Today on Stateside, we look at two traditionally Republican congressional districts in West Michigan that are going through political change. Plus, we…

If writer Saladin Ahmed never typed another word, he'd already have introduced us to so many interesting people. From fantasy novels, to Westerns, to…

Today on Stateside, we hear about what's included in the auto insurance reform bill that got a fast-tracked approval from the state Senate on Tuesday.…

Metro Detroit native Saladin Ahmed has been writing for years. From poetry to short stories to novels, he has experimented in many genres. Ahmed’s most…

In the D.C. Comics universe, Superman has Metropolis, Batman has Gotham, and now Cyborg has Detroit.When D.C. rebooted its universe a few years ago, the…