COMICS
LENORE: THE TIME WAR #1 (OF 3)
(W/A) Roman Dirge
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99, On Sale January 29, 2025
The much-celebrated return of Roman Dirge’s unique, anarchic and cult classic character LENORE: THE CUTE LITTLE DEAD GIRL in her
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IRON MAN #1 ($4.99): Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror; DC’s Waller vs. Wildstorm) in his exciting Marvel debut and artist Julius Ohta (Hellverine, Alien). Roxxon an
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…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:
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #60 ($7.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 ($4.99)
CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE #3 (OF 4, $3.99)
DEADPOOL #6 2ND PTG ROGE ANTONIO VARIANT ($3.99)
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
GHOST RIDER EPIC COLLECT VOL 2: THE SA
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JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #3
Written by MARK WAID
Art and cover by DAN MORA
Variant covers by SIMONE DI MEO, NATHAN SZERDY,
and RICCARDO FEDERICI
1:25 variant cover by TYLER KIRKHAM
1:50 variant cover by DEREK KIRK KIM
RAISED UV FOIL variant cover by
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I've always said that if Marvel had just had Jim Starlin put out a book once a year of all double page spreads of all of Marvel's heroes and villains fighting each other in interesting locales and without bothering with any
Read more…No one usually known as "Doc" (so no Samson or Savage) and no one who's just "The Doctor".
Over the course of a long weekend in the '90s, I once watched Lawrence Olivier's movie version of Hamlet, followed by Mel Gibson's, followed by Kenneth Branagh's. Then I read First Comics' Classics Illustrated version. As truncated as it was (to fit
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Despite being a life-long G-fan, I didn't buy this series (written by Doug Moench and drawn by Herb Trimpe) when it was new. I did buy the first and last issues years later, but didn't feel the need to collect the series as backissues. When I had the
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ALIEN: ROMULUS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99)
AVENGERS #19 ($3.99)
BLADE RED BAND #1 (OF 5) RED FOIL VAR (POLYBAGGED, $PI)
BLOOD HUNT TP ($19.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION VOL 2: DEATH OF D TP ($49.99)
CAPTAIN MARVEL
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CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99): Marvel takes an old horror title and revives it as an anthology one-shot—with Agatha Harkness as host. Here are the stories, as described by Marvel:
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ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1 2ND PTG ESAD RIBIC VARIANT (OF 4, $7.99)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #261 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #2 (OF 5, $3.99)
BLOOD HUNTERS #3 (OF 5, $3.99)
CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99)
DARE
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Grimjack remains one of my favorite characters/series despite the fact he hasn't had a regular series since 1991 or a new adventure since 2010. I think more about his entire life has been revealed than has about most other comic book characters who h
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I just finished re-reading Watchmen for the first time in many years. Every time I read I notice some new detail or nuance I had never noticed before. I used to pretend that non-comics readers might one day ask me to recommend a comic book or series
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #59: Here's an homage to Uncanny X-Men #268. I guess you just have to know what you're doing if you buy this, because it sure looks like an X-Men book, when it is a Spider-Man book -- abd Spidey doesn't
Read more…"The past is never dead. It's never even past." -- William Faulkner
Some company named Super7 (or maybe PX, it's unclear) has announced four glow-in-the dark action figures from pre-Code horror comics. Not ongoing characters, mind you -- just single
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"[Mike] Grell created a Celtic barbarian in the time of the Roman Empire who, at the moment of his death, is yanked into a far-flung future where he becomes a space pirate and freedom fighter aboard a star-roving vessel shaped like a Spanish Galleon
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ALIENS WHAT IF TP ($17.99)
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (NEW PTG, $100.00)
DAREDEVIL #14 ($4.99)
DEADPOOL #7 ($3.99)
DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE: WWIII TP ($15.99)
FANTASIC FOUR HALLOWEEN TRICK-OR-READ 2024
GET FURY #6 (OF 6, $3.99)
GHOS
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