Author Archives: Dafna Pleban

Ultimate Spider-Man #101 By Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley (artist) MARVEL COMICS I dread the day that Mark Bagley leaves “Ultimate Spider-Man.” Bagley’s pencils along with Brian Michael Bendis’ words have, for 101 issues, served up some of the most consistent, exciting and unique storytelling on the racks today. Retelling the story of how […]

Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson “The Boys” #1-3 WILDSTORM COMICS (Out of 5) It wouldn’t be wrong to say that “The Boys” is what Garth Ennis does best: grotesque set-pieces, needless violence and human misery played for laughs. Normally all this ““ as with his seminal work “Preacher” ““ is underscored with a deep appreciation for […]

The Red Rock on Sunset might be the perfect place for students looking to ignore their homework for just one more day. With the “Audience First Comedy” show tonight at 8:30, procrastinating during the first week of school just got a little bit easier. Put on every first and third Tuesday of the month by […]

Gabe Cardenas just can’t get enough of comedy. Cardenas, an ethnomusicology student who graduated from UCLA in 2005, and the rest of Bruin United Improvisational Comedy Kraze recently performed their last show of the year on June 2 in De Neve Auditorium. For Cardenas, BUICK offered a chance to participate in something he might not […]

For one day this year, Superman, Batman and Spider-Man will join forces. Free Comic Book Day will sweep the nation Saturday, leaving at least one comic in the hands of every man, woman, child and college student who walks into a comic store, or at least the ones participating in this year’s nationwide event. Created […]

In Powell 228, the man responsible for the death of Captain Marvel sat among UCLA students, laughing. He is Mark Waid, comic author and now UCLA lecturer, at least for the hour, for English 88S, “Comic Books As Literature.” On Tuesday, Waid, a veteran of over 20 years in the comic book industry and one […]