The latest addition to Oni Press's "EC" imprint is Blood Type, a four-issue limited series featuring a single character, a vampire named Ada, spun out of a single story from Epitaphs from the Abyss #3 about a vampire in a lifeboat. This series picks
I've just received word that Jim Shooter passed away of esophogeal cancer, which he's been battling for some time. I realize that for many he's been a controversial figure i
Charlton's Blue Beetle was not the first... he was not even the first named "Dan Garrett." The original Blue Beetle was a police officer in his civilian identity who first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1, published by Fox Publi
My earliest memory of Tarzan (I think) is watching the movie Tarzan's Three Challenges on television. (This would have been circa 1969.) By the time I read my first Tarzan comic book, I was already familiar with the Ron Ely television show as well as
It's difficult these days to discuss a television show when all of the episodes drop at once and everyone watches at his own pace, but the Paper Girls discussion (short as it was) went all right, so let's try one for Sandman... let's say an episode a
Here is a complete episode guide for the strip. All art is by Jack Kirby, inked first by Wally Wood and later by Dick Ayers. The only credited scripters were Dick and Dave Wood, but it is widely believed that Jack Kirby wrote the later scripts.
Nexus: the Newspaper Strips, Vol. 1 - "The Coming of Gourmando
I haven't read this yet. But I've got so much to say about it that I wanted to get the other stuff off my chest first. In 2016, Baron & Rude launched a HUGE (think Marvel "MONSTER"-size)
There was a brief time in the early 1980s when Moon Knight was my favorite character (basically the Moench/Sienkiewicz run of the character's solo series). Although I have reread Moon Knight from time-to-time over the years, I always go back to his e
I didn't want to infringe on the Skipper's JSA conversation by cluttering it up with things thst he hasn't gotten to yet, but I wanted to commit this to electrons before it vanished from that scrapheap that I call a brain.
I remember when Spectacular Spider-Man debuted (or PeterParker the Spectacuar Spider-Man, as it was called then). The series' initial raison d'être was to focus on the "Peter Parker" side of "Spider-Man." I turned my nose up at it (same as I did wit
DC's Swamp Thing and Marvel's Man-Thing burst on the comics scene at roughly the same time, but little is ever heard about the muck-monster which predated them both: Skywald Comics' The Heap (SEP 1971). I plucked mine out a bargain bin somewh
DC Finest: Hawkman -- Wings Across Time TP (DC, $39.99): I have all of the original comics, and the Silver Age Hawkman Archives, but I'm still excited! I won't mind getting these again, and reading them in order -- especially
KAIJU GO!, the premier kaiju event in Dallas-Fort Worth, returns to the historic TEXAS THEATRE on AUGUST 16, 2025. This showcase of Japanese monster films, art, and toys will, once again, bring fans a Go
