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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Quote RED RAVEN, Never More!
I realized that I had access to all of RED RAVEN's Golden, Silver and Bronze Age appearances, few as they are and thought I would focus on this anomaly of Timely Comics. I will be going in publishing order because that's easier and will hightlight…
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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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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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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…
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Cruel Universe
This is the second of Oni Press's new EC imprint (following last month's Epitaphs from the Abyss).SPOILERS - I generally don't like to know in advance if a story has a twist ending. That itself is a spoiler for me because in the back of my mind I…
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Doctor Who Reactions: The Daleks' Master Plan
I have been very much looking forward to the release of this audio, not only because it is from one of the legendary missing stories, not only because it features the Daleks, not only because it’s the longest Doctor Who serial ever (12 episodes plus…
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What Comic Books Have You Read Today?
Report what comic books you have read today--and tell us a little something about it while you're here!
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William Burnside, Captain America*
*(a.k.a. "The Captain America of the 1950s," a.k.a. "The Other Steve Rogers"; this post largely transcribed from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index v1 #8A).Captain America and Bucky returned to comics in the middle 1950s when stories of…
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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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