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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Comic Book Sales Trends
I've changed the title of this thread from "Comic Book Sales Trends in 2016" because I keep coming back to it. My friendly neighborhood comics shop, Fantom Comics of Washington, DC, breaks down what sold at the store in 2016. This information, of…
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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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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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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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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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Catacomb of Torment
This is the sixth "EC" title from Oni Press following...Epitaphs from the AbyssCruel UniverseShiver SuspenStoriesCruel KingdomBlood TypeISSUE #1:"What's the Deal with Voodoo?" - A culturally insenstitive stand-up comedian intentionally baits his…
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Lone Wolf & Cub (Deluxe Edition)
Lone Wolf & Cub was the first manga I ever read. (I didn't read Akira until years after it was first released in America.) Those First Comics issues had their flaws (skipped stories, uncompleted series, "flipped" artwork, published out of order,…
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Swamp Thing 1989
Over three decades since the controversy and cancellation, Rick Veitch's legendary lost issues are completed. After a renowned two year run on the series, Veitch's grand finale to Swamp Thing was cut short, and never to see print. Whispers and leaks…
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