Criminal Minds: "Amplification"
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…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 (
Read more…The other day, I was reading one of the old Dollar Comics issues of World's Finest -- a complete run of these is one of my current collecting quests -- and in a Hawkman story, I encountered a familiar face. The character, an elderly fortune teller na
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!
Read more…Just bringing this discussion over to ning... What books are you reading right now that don't have a narrative driven by images as well as words?
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.
Read more…Three's a trend.
Over the past couple years, DC has been releasing facsimile issues of the giant Limited Collector's Editions they printed at tabloid-size in the 70s. They've reprinted Superman vs Wonder Woman, Superman vs Muhammed Ali, various Batman
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…I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no
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Despite the emotionally-charged, sensationalisitc cover, Shellshock provides some thought-provoking fodder for discourse on war and warfare.
Report what comic books you have read today--and tell us a little something about it while you're here!
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TOP 10 PUBLISHERS
NO. 1: DC COMICS
NEW TITANS #38
A New Mission. A Rising Threat. A Hero Whose Spark Changes Everything.
Static takes on a pivotal role in the next chapter of DC’s New Titans comic book series when issue #38 arrives this August, mar
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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
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…Did I miss a post on this? Marvel will be releasing Hope Assembles, a crossover between the MCU and Star Wars, written by Kevin Smith. Is this going to be epic, or just an excuse to sell merch? And does it make a different to the "purity" of either p
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…I turned my nose up at Marvel's Star Wars comics in the late '70s/early '80s. Fast forward to the early 2K's when I found new volumes of the Dark Horse series of tpbs reprinting it on clearance at Half Price Books. I snatched them up thinking "How ba
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