Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up to pick up All-Star Western 34 if you can. It's a truly great issue. Palmiotti, Gray, and Darwyn Cooke deliver an excellent capstone to Palmiotti & Grey's over 100-issue run on Jonah Hex.
I've read that back in the 1940's Superman sold a million copies a month.
What if a single series started selling like that now? Never mind why. To be extremely silly, we'll say that a wizard secretly compels people to start buying copies of a pa
Read more…Moon Knight: Divided We Fall
January 1992
Cover art by: Denys Cowan
Story: Divided We Fall
Writer: Bruce Jones
Pencils: Denys Cowan
Inks: Mike Manley & Tom Palmer.
Marc Spector ticks off both Frenchie and Marlene, so they leave him on his own. He
Read more…Did anyone else see this in Previews? A twenty pack of mini comics featuring Vamplets, Angry Birds, Betty and Veronica, Mermin, Boom Halloween, LBX an Plants versus Zombies for 4.99. Might be a fun idea to try.
Read more…HULK VS. IRON MAN #1: An unsuccessful attempt to shoehorn Tony Stark behind-the-scenes of Hulk #1. It’s an Original Sin spin-off mini-series which is set in the present but flashes back to the past. It’s co-plotted and scripted by Mark Waid and the a
Read more…This was a lot more fun that I thought it would be. Putting the cast into the first star wars film works. A lot of in-jokes and some nice background jokes as well. Casting Isabella as Han Solo's rival, Candace's quest to get Darth Vader some socks...
Read more…Two semi-related press releases of interest:
I've only got a few of the issues and I just scanned in 225, 1984, "Hellrazor is comming" and I wondered once she was on the team did they face more magical threats than scientific/supervillain/alien style threats?
Read more…Roy Thomas Presents The Heap Volume One
PS Artbooks
$47.99, color, 240 pgs.
Writers and Artists: Various
Collecting "The Heap" stories Dec 42-May 48
This is a fascinating book.
Not for the art or stories, which never rise above pedestrian. But the
Read more…If you like “Jim Starlin’s “cosmic” work, you’ll like this. If you don’t, you won’t.
(I wrote this up as a lengthier review but I wasn’t happy with it so I decided to do it as a “Quick Hit.”)
Read more…I should have posted all this on Tuesday, Aug. 12, but better late than never!
GET READY TO ROOT FOR THE BAD GUYS IN BATMAN: ASSAULT ON ARKHAM AVAILABLE FROM WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT ON AUGUST 12, 2014!
Stellar Voice Cast Includes Kevin Conro
Read more…The best “Star Trek” since Star Trek.
NOTE TO CAPTAIN COMICS: If you’re reading this, I’d really like to hear your opinion.
Read more…The Teen Titans Project, Part IV: The “Joker’s Daughter” Years (1976-1979)
“They’re back at last!” At least that’s what DC proclaimed on the cover of Teen Titans #44 (Nov. 1976). After a three-year hiatus, the Teen Titans were back in costume and
Read more…I’m enjoy this this as much as any (and more than most) of “The New 52” but it suffers from rotating artists syndrome: three artists in three months: Kieth Giffen, Tom Grummett, Jim Starlin. All of them are fine artists and any of them would be good
Read more…Here's a line for DC's TRINITY OF SIN: THE PHANTOM STRANGER title .
And with apparently only one issue left !
Well , I've been buying it ~ Going from comic shp to comic shop , and having to special-order it , as they were not actually stocking it
Read more…I bought a MMPB of the most recent Sue Grafton mystery in her Casey Malone series , W IS FOR WASTED , indulging myself in advance in anticipation of another hospital stay (a week-and-a halfish after the last one) .
I have moved to Olympia , Washing
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While he was most famous as the announcer for Saturday Night Live, if you're an American TV watcher between the ages of ten and ninety, you've almost certainly heard his voice, even if you've never seen SNL. I remember first hearing him
Read more…CAPTAIN VICTORY & THE GALACTIC RANGERS: Writer Joe Casey is taking a somewhat different approach to this title than he did toward the Kirby-ish Godland. Frankly, the art is a bit too “experimental” for my taste, but I’ll give it another issue or two.
Read more…Who got killed ? (Spoilers) I saw a Bleeding Cool column that some character was being killed " in a really final way ~ even if they do come back to life , it will be like never before " , etcetera , at least I think 'twas BC .
The writer made a bi
Read more…ODYC #1
story: MATT FRACTION
art / cover: CHRISTIAN WARD
NOVEMBER 26 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
An epic 26 centuries in the making: In the aftermath of a galactic war a hundred years long, Odyssia the Clever Champion and her compatriots begin their
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