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…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…TOP 10 PUBLISHERS
NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS
FANTASTIC FOUR #12 FACSIMILE EDITION, $4.99: The last of a 12-issue run, and yes, I got them all.
FANTASTIC FOUR BY WAID AND WIERINGO : AUTHORITATIVE ACTION TP, $34.99, collects Fantastic Four #503-508, right af
Read more…This hefty tome can be broken into three sections (the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s), and that's how I'm going to handle it. the introduction by Peter J. Sanderson is dated 2005 and was obviously originally written for an earlier collection of the
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BATMAN #1 - "The Joker"
The Joker got off to a strong start with not one but two stories in the very first issue of Batman. No clown, he, but a psychopathic thief and serial killer from the very beginning whose murders were nothing short of inventive.
Read more…LISA'S LEGACY TRILOGY:
1. PRELUDE: Lisa's Story Begins
2. LISA'S STORY: The Other Shoe
3. THE LAST LEAF: Lisa's Story Concludes
I recently (yesterday) completed a months-long project of reading all of The Complete Funky Winkerbean from 1972-2007, twelve
Read more…What does it all mean? Beats me, Sarge. But I bet that it'll be ever so momentous.
Read more…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, i
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?
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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
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DETECTIVE COMICS #66 - "The Crimes of Two-Face!"
[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
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The Penguin first appeared in two consecutive issues of Detective Comics.
DETECTIVE COMICS #58 - "The Penguin"
Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting an art exhibition when they take note of an odd little man who resembles a penguin. Suddenly, one o
Read more…There were but two Riddler stories published during the Golden Age,* the first being...
DETECTIVE COMICS #140 - "The Riddler"
The Riddler has a fairly nondescipt origin story: basically he was a kid who cheated at puzzles. When he grew up, he got himse
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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…Up until now, we have made due with a single "Dark Shadows" thread which comprises all related topics lumped together, but now I find it preferable to break out "Seances and Sources" for ease of reference and update.
SEANCE SCORECARD:
SEANCE #1: Episod
Read more…One doesn't have to read too many of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels (in sequence) before smacking headlong into "The Great Korak Time Discrepancy." Briefly, Tarzan son Jack was introduced as an infant in The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), but when he
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
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