Erik Amaya, our
Editor-in-Chief, is a film and television critic, specializing in comic book media and genre work since 2007. His work has appeared on Rotten Tomatoes, Bleeding Cool, CBR and Comics Alliance. He is the Comics on TV columnist at Rotten Tomatoes and a contributor to
Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten Movies We Love, the book about the lowest rated movies on the site’s infamous Tomatometer. He is also a co-host of the television podcast
Tread Perilously and a life-long fan of visual storytelling. He considers
The Legion of Superheroes (v4) #4 as the moment he truly fell in love with comics and
Robotech as a seminal experience in long-form storytelling.
Olly MacNamee, one of our
Senior Editors, has been reporting about comics for a number of years now, having cut his teeth at
Bleeding Cool before taking up the gauntlet as thrown down by
comicon.com. A comic book fan since his very early years, Olly is a life-long DC Comics fan, but that hasn’t stopped him developing a larger addiction to other books by other publishers. To him, we are living in a new Golden Age of comic book publishing and just wishes he had more time to read all the great comics out there. When he’s not reading, reviewing or breaking comic book news, he teaches too, where he has often used comics in the classroom to support the literacy development of his students over the years. He lives in the UK’s second city, Birmingham, where he is also involved in the organisation of Birmingham’s premium graffiti and street art festival, High Vis Fest, his second love after comic books.
Brendan M. Allen, one of our
Senior Editors, has probably had more jobs than you would reasonably believe. Flooring contractor? Yep! Dog trainer? He’s done it. EMT? Army NBC specialist? Road dog for a Celtic rock band? Yes, yes, and och aye! Now he reads comics and writes about them. Brendan’s comic book interests tend to lean into horror, noir, weird indies, and pro wrestling. You can follow him on Twitter @SaintAmish where he mostly rants about comic books and cystic fibrosis.