When you’ve been around as many local comics shops as I have, you come to dread…
Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall is the host for the weekly "Wayne's Comics" podcast. He has interviewed comics pros including Scott Snyder, Phil Hester, Arvid Nelson, Bob Schreck, Michael Alan Nelson, Joe Harris, Jeff Cahn, Michael Jan Friedman, Mark Bertolini, David Baxter, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, Shawn Aldridge, Brendan Daneen, Sam Johnson, Michael Moreci, David Petersen, Cy Dethan, John Heffernan, and Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, to name a few. He writes the weekly "Wayne's Worlds" column (news, reviews, podcasts, comments, opinions and interviews) here at FirstComicsNews.com!
Wayne’s Worlds: Art Versus Script
What’s the most important part of a comic? The art or the script (story)?
Wayne’s Worlds: Team-Ups Are Still Fun!
Was it really years ago now that I read about Batman and the Shadow teaming up?…
Wayne’s Worlds: Great Characters Don’t Go Away Forever!
It wasn’t all that long ago that I grieved that the fifth issue of the Black…
Wayne’s Worlds: How ‘Real’ Should Comics Get?
A friend of mine was telling me just how much he doesn’t like it when “real…
Wayne’s Worlds: The Joys and Dangers of Store Subscription Services
Often I like to talk about local comics shops and why I frequent them. One of…
Wayne’s Worlds: A ‘Real’ Comics Shop!
When I buy new comics, I go to Krum’s World, a great comics store in Winter…
Wayne’s Worlds: Bring Out Your Dead!
It’s a common phrase among comics’ fans – Death in comics is only temporary! A lot has…
Wayne’s Worlds: Are Comics Too Popular Now?
Comics conventions are returning now, sometimes with more than one happening on a weekend in the…
Wayne’s Worlds: Art Versus Comics
Now that they are starting to resurface, it’s time to talk about comics conventions and how…
Wayne’s Worlds: Characters Not Originally in the Comics
Now that cons are slowly starting to resurface, I’ve been remembering many previous events, some where…
Wayne’s Worlds: I Love the Character, But I Don’t Buy the Comic!
Recently, I ended up part of a conversation that got me thinking about fans and why…
Wayne’s Worlds: Can We Trust Fan Reactions?
With the Internet providing instant contact for information, it’s given those of us who are fans…
Wayne’s Worlds: I Just Don’t Get It Sometimes!
Some very popular trends just pass me by at times. I see others diving headlong into…
Wayne’s Worlds: ‘Not My Superman’
Recently I’ve been noticing a lot of discussion online about Superman. He’s been getting a lot…
Wayne’s Worlds: Marvel Versus DC, Now More than Ever!
The same animosity between Marvel and DC not only continues in the comics, but has moved…
Wayne’s Worlds: All Too Human
The comics industry continues to deal with a difficult subject – sexual harassment among the members…
Wayne’s Worlds: Expensive Signatures
Even though cons haven’t been happening for a while now, there’s still been a lot of…
Wayne’s Worlds: The Indie Explosion Continues!
I’m reliving some cons I’ve attended in the past as I long for comic conventions to…
Wayne’s Worlds: Biggest, Baddest Baddies
It’s long been said that what makes good movies are the bad guys. If that person…
Wayne’s Worlds: Nothing Lasts Forever
As the old saying goes, the one constant in life is change. The sad thing is…
Wayne’s Worlds: Choosing a Comics Shop
Every once in a while, I find it helpful to re-examine why you do what you…
Wayne’s Worlds: Bring Back the Bi-Weeklies!
For a while there, it seemed as if more bi-weekly (every other week) comics were going…
Wayne’s Worlds: Trade Paperback or Individual Issues?
Every so often, I re-examine the idea of trade paperbacks versus individual issues. Now that I’m…
Wayne’s Worlds: Are Adult Coloring Books Still a Thing?
Now, more than ever, comics companies will do literally anything to sell you their product. Variant covers, blank…
Wayne’s Worlds: Why Crossovers?
The recent news that The CW is renewing The Flash and other superheroic shows on their…
Wayne’s Worlds: Whatever Happened to Movie Adaptations?
With all the hubbub surrounding the Star Wars franchise, I started wondering if Marvel was going…
Wayne’s Worlds: The Dark Influence of the Internet
The Internet can be a wonderful thing! For instance, I learn so much reading this very…
Wayne’s Worlds: Scout’s Honor #1 Review
I thought I would take a week away from looking at the entire industry to focus…
Wayne’s Worlds: Recognizing Bill Finger
Maybe some of us have now gotten used to this, but when the Dark Knight appears,…
Wayne’s Worlds: Issues, Please, Not Politics!
The year 2020 is coming to an end, and it looks like politics will be more…
Wayne’s Worlds: Are Some Stories Just Too Old?
Not too long ago I brought home the last hardcover of Grant Morrison’s Zenith series, a…