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AVENGERS #1
Publisher: MARVEL COMICS
Written by MARK WAID
Art by MIKE DEL MUNDO
Cover by ALEX ROSS
Variant Covers by ADAM KUBERT, LORENZO PASTROVICCHIO
Hip-Hop Variant by DANIEL ACUNA
Action Figure Variant by JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHE
Read more…Discussion on another thread that mentioned Mike's Amazing World of Comics prompted me to take a look to see if I could pinpoint exactly when my comic book addiction began in the 1960s. Sure enough, I was able to narrow it down to May and June of 196
Read more…Horrible news: Preacher, Punisher, and Judge Dredd* artist Steve Dillon has died. I always loved his art -- he had a way of drawing the reader right into the scene and keeping emotions at the forefront. I'm so sorry to hear that he's passed.
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Read more…Some reviews from 10/26/16 books:
ACTION COMICS #966
Publisher: DC COMICS
Written by DAN JURGENS • Art by STEPHEN SEGOVIA and ART THIBERT • Covers by CLAY MANN • Variant covers by GARY FRANK
2 pg • FC • $2.99 U.S. • RATED T
“BACK IN THE PLANET” part
Read more…Satellite Sam Volume Two: Satellite Sam And The Snuff-F* Kinescope
Matt Fraction, writer; Howard Chaykin, artist
Image Comics, 2014
The second collection of Satellite Sam delivers the noir mystery in spades. Michael's investigation continues--aided
Read more…Descender Vol. 2: Machine Moon
Jeff Lemire, story; Dustin Nguyen, art
Image Comics, 2016
The further adventures of robot boy TIM-21. He spends most of this issue in the company of the Hardwire, the robot resistance. He agrees to come with them on t
Read more…Following up on discussion about ugly Silver Age comic book covers on another thread, I'm going to make this my first attempt at starting a new thread and posting an image.
Here's my nomination, Wonder Woman #159. It's got that good purple thing g
Read more…Say what you will about our Jack, and I've said plenty myself, but his stuff was unforgettable.
Read more…FIVE BOOKS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
BLOODSHOT U.S.A #1 (of 4)
Publisher: VALIANT COMICS
Written by JEFF LEMIRE
Art by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover A by KANO
Cover B by DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Cover C by DAVE JOHNSON
Cover D by RYAN STEGMAN
Cover E by CULLY HAMNER
Read more…We started discussing digital comics in the what should be collected next thread, and since that often becomes a longer topic, I figured I'd see if I could separate it out and possibly draw more attention to it and keep it from being a tangent there.
Read more…Wow! I'm on the iPad and will say more later on a proper keyboard. tl;dr: We likee.
Read more…Satellite Sam Volume One
Matt Fraction, writer; Howard Chaykin, artist
Image Comics, 2014
I knew I'd had this eComic for awhile, but I had no idea it had been this long. Fraction and Chaykin created a B&W noir mystery story set in the early years o
Read more…Yup, I threatened to do this, now it's going to happen. I'd thought about waiting until I was finished with Howard the Duck but I decided to go ahead and get started.
For this discussion, I'll be covering Luke Cage: Hero For Hire #1-16, Luke Cage:
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
Forget Batman v Superman. The most interesting battle is Marvel v DC.
The rivalry between the two publishers goes back to the Golden Age of Comics (roughly 1938-1950), when DC was still National Comics and Ma
Read more…Marvel released five teasers this week, one a day, titled "ResurrXion." They were subtitled "A Beginning" as well. Your guess is as good as mine:
I've had the Superman and Shazam! companion volumes since childhood, but this one didn't come my way. But I picked up a Taiwanese copy at a sale on Saturday and I thought I'd blog the stories.
Although I only learned to read in the 70s, most of my e
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
The season premiere of The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow on Oct. 13 introduced the Justice Society of America. If you said, “Who?” – well, you’re in for a treat.
Superhero teams are a commonplace today, with Aveng
Read more…With no Doctor Who on television from Christmas day last year until Christmas day this year, 2016 was going to be my “Year of the Eighth Doctor.” But I finished The Eighth Doctor Adventures quite some time ago, and after that I took a nearly six mont
Read more…I’d had a hard day at work and my divorce was pending. It was raining cows and elephants as I trudged down the street to my new home.
When I got inside at last I slumped in my recliner and poured myself a drink. But before I even got to it I noticed
Read more…The below is a timeline I made up to try to reconcile all of the movies in the various Universal "classic horror" collections that I own. I ended up folidng in a bunch of Abbott and Costello movies, plus Young Frankenstein, just for fun. Enjoy!
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