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.
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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 ref
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I have been in a "Lone Ranger" mood for a while now and have been meaning to read the Dynamite series for some time. John Cassaday provided the cover art, and with his recent passing, this seems like the perfect opportunity to pay him tribute by spot
Read more…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 th
Read more…Halloween is approaching, and I thought the board might appreciate a selection of classic horror stories from the presumed public domain.
"Dead Man's Tale" is from Avon's Eerie Comics #1 (1947). The issue, a one-shot, was the first US comic wholly de
Read more…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 years.
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The first Scout series (1985) took place in 1999 (#1-7) and 2002 (#8-24). The second Scout series, War Shamen (1988), took place in 2015 (with a framing device set in 2030) and ended with ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uᴉɐɯ ǝɥʇ ɟo ɥʇɐǝp ǝɥʇ. At that point, Timothy Truman
Read more…I'm starting this thread for the little things that I've discovered while re-reading my old books. This will probably be trivia of the most trivial nature but it is what it is!
Today I picked out TWO things from Detective Comics #446 (Ap'75):
1) In th
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Read more…The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The Most
Read more…Story He was TV's first Tarzan, played Doc Savage, and was in numberless other thinga.
Read more…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 olde
Read more…As is my custom, here are some random images for spoiler space:
My version of the "Suicide Squad"
Baserd on its newsstand release date, in another universe, this could have been the last issue of Fantastic Four:
I’d like to start this continuation of the Dark Shadows discussion from the old board with a look at some of the new and upcoming Dark Shadows audio stories from Big Finish Productions. There aren’t nearly as many Dark Shadows audio adventures as the
Read more…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 di
Read more…Every week, one item or another in my pull and hold stands out for me above the rest in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a periodical, sometimes a graphic novel, sometimes a collection. Does that happen to you? If so, let’s hear about it here. It c
Read more…This thread is a companion to the "A Cover A Day" discussion. Click here to visit that discussion. It is intended for the discussion of potential new themes and topics for "A Cover A Day", voting on these themes, and the gathering and reporting of
Read more…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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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 i
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