Feeding Ghosts – A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls: winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography.
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THIS WEEK'S COMICS
Week of June 16, 2025
SOME POPULAR THREADS
The Massive, Extravagant, Over-the-top Golden Age JSA Re-read
Welcome to our re-read of the first and greatest superhero team in comics ... and quite a bit more! My plan is to re-read and discuss the Golden Age Justice Society of America, which ran from All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940) to All-Star Comics #57…
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Ka-Zar the Savage
The first character called "Ka-Zar" came from the pulps, but when Martin Goodman decided to publish comic books, he moved that character over to his very first, Marvel Comics #1. The first Ka-zar was a boy whose parents' plane crashed in the African…
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Comic Collecting Precepts
Ever since the '80s, I've held two precepts regarding comic book collecting: Don't buy what you don't read. Don't read what you don't enjoy. I thought this pair clever because the unstated third is therefore, "Don't buy what you don't enjoy."…
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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…
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What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Music? What song? By whom? Podcasts? Which ones? Who's on it? The whir of your hard drive while you defrag? Whatever you're listening to, share it with the Legion of Superfluous Heroes!
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Superman from the Beginning
This painting by pulp artist H.J. Ward, best known for his Spicy Detective covers, hung for years in the DC offices.
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Silver Surfer: Return to the Spaceways (Plus)
This shipped today...But how does it compare to the Epic Collection "Freedom"?The Epic Collection contains..."The Answer" from Epic Illustrated #1Silver Surfer (one-shot, 1982)Silver Surfer (1987) #1-14Super-Villain Classics (Galactus) #1 Marvel…
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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,…
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New History of the DC Universe - Comments and Questions (SPOILERS)
Issue #1Barry Allen describes himself as "retired". Is this some development that I missed, or is this meant to be "future" Barry?Barry seems to have a large collections of "trophies" from various heroes and villlains. I wonder how he obtained all…
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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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