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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…
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…
Read more…Comical Comic Cuts
So - I know I've only been here a week, but I thought I might be able to brighten up everyone's lives a little with a new thread devoted to comical cartoons based around superheroes. I have loads of funny material that I've picked up over the…
Read more…Three of a Kind
I was looking through some old comics when I thought of a new game. I call it Three of a Kind. Here's my first entry. Hoy
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…Bad Halloween Pun Countdown!
Hmmm.... puns..... Halloween.... As these are a few of my favorite things, I'm counting down with Halloween-themed AI-generated visual puns. They start, boys and ghouls, with the terrifically obvious and get (I think) more challenging. They might…
Read more…Epitaphs from the Abyss
Oni Press's new "EC" imprint first came to my attention when my retailer gave me a double-sided promotional poster (because I buy all those archival EC reprints published by Dark Horse and Fantagraphics and IDW). I thought it was a good sign that…
Read more…The DC Comics "All In" and "Absolute" discussion
It begins. Next month, DC Comics will split in two. When "Absolute Power" comes to an end -- and we have a thread on that HERE -- something happens that creates, for lack of a better term, a new Earth-2. This new parallel universe will be published…
Read more…Comics shipping week of Oct. 21, 2024
TOP PUBLISHERS MARVEL COMICS ALIEN: ROMULUS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99) AVENGERS #19 ($3.99) BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5) RED FOIL VAR (POLYBAGGED, $PI) BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99) CAPTAIN AMERICA MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 2: DEATH OF D TP ($49.99) CAPTAIN MARVEL…
Read more…Comic Guide for week of Oct. 14, 2024
TOP PUBLISHERS MARVEL COMICS CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99): Marvel takes an old horror title and revives it as an anthology one-shot—with Agatha Harkness as host. Here are the stories, as described by Marvel: Prepare to be spellbound Agatha…
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