Love Everlasting Volume 1; and Ice Cream Man Volume 11- Horror, Horror. Ice Cream Man is great as always, but Love Everlasting was a surprise, despite the all-star creative team (Tom King, writer; Elsa Charretier, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer). I was not…
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Ultraman (Back to the Beginning)
I was a big fan of Ultraman when I was a kid. In the early ‘90s I discovered there was a new “Ultraman” show, but unfortunately I was more interested in acquiring episodes of the old show on VHS than I was episodes of the new one. Somewhat later I…
Read more…A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
Read more…Movies I Have Seen Lately
Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his…
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BATTLEFIELD:I'm not a big fan of war comics. I have read all of Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, but when it comes to Sgt. Rock or Sgt. Fury, I've never been able to get more than a Marvel Masterworks or DC Archives volume in before losing…
Read more…My Turn in the Barrel
I've always felt blessed at the good fortune of my senior years. A wonderful wife of thirty-three years. Financial security. Good health. Matinée-idol good looks. (O.K., maybe not that, heh.) I've been particularly smug over my good health. …
Read more…DC Finest line
A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line,…
Read more…The End of a Long Time Collector - Bye bye?
Hey guys! I've kinda given up collecting comics - too expensive and too confusing. But I want to go out on something intriguing* and to me, Stargirl and Justice Society kinda look like it. Is it worth quitting after getting these two TPB's or is…
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Read more…Comics for April 1, 2026
There are press releases for a lot of this material in Comics for April 2026. TOP PUBLISHERS NO. 1: DC COMICS BIZARRO: YEAR NONE #1 (OF 4) (W) Kevin Smith, Eric Carrasco (A/CA) Nick Pitarra KEVIN SMITH, ERIC CARRASCO, AND NICK PITARRA TELL THE…
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