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!
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
Jim Cornette, of all people, was talking about the history of Diamond, and it got me to thinking that I don't remember the name of the first dedicated comic book store that I ever saw. I'm pretty sure that I saw my first one in the early 1980's, but
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
I still remember the day I bought Warlord #1 new off the spinner rack at Ahmann's Newsstand. It was the first (but not the last!) time I thought I was getting in on the beginning of a new series, when in fact I was not. I bought the second issue as w
The Election Results Are In!
The Democratic Party of Japan has won an impressive electoral victory over the Liberal Democratic Party, which, despite its name, is the more conservative of the two parties. The DPJ is promising new social programs and
Today Marvel shipped the last ever volume of Marvel Masterworks, v389. It began with Spider-Man, and so too did it end. If I had my 'druthers, I would have liked to have seen a 28th volume (of Spider-Man) to bring the series up to issue #300 and the
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
As I did with "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" discussion, I borrowed the title from a tpb collection but I plan to go beyond the actual contents of the collection itself. Catwoman has the unique distinction of appearing in the first three cons
I don't remember when it was, exactly, that I lost interest in Superman. There was a time, from Crisis on Infinite Earths until well into the 2Ks, that I had complete collections of every Superman title published (Superman, Action Comics, Adventures
[In Two-Face's earliest appearances he was known as Harvey Kent, but that was later changed, apparently to avoid confusion with a well-known denizen of Metropolis. Also, his girlfriend Gilda repeatedly
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
Diamond Comics Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. They also announced that they were selling off pieces of their large company - Alliance Games and Diamond UK were two mentioned today with others likely to happen soon.
