Wow! Look at what family-friendly Comics Buyers Guide is publishing!
Is this why we can't get sequels to Baby Boomer Comics and 1,000 Comics You Must Read?
Hoy
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Following the announcement of Essential Sgt. Fury Vol. 1, now we get this! I'm really excited about this, seeing more Kirby art I've never seen before. Some people, including, I believe, our own Dave Blanchard, consider this series to be the first "r
Read more…In addition to the Marvel Masterworks that have been coming out for twenty years or so now,
Marvel is also issuing Atlas Comics era Masterworks that collect approximately four volumes for each of the series "Tales of Suspense", "Tales to Astonish", "
Read more…I posed this on the JLA-JSA thread, and am giving it its own post here at the Captain's suggestion:
"I can see a reading of the "Luma Lynai" scene from another direction. Remember, Supergirl is the one who's messing about in Superman's love life a
Read more…If the title of this thread seems overly clever or familiar, it's because I've stolen/ borrowed this title from the four page introduction to the final Tales of Suspense Masterworks volume #186, penned by Barry Pearl, because I think it's very appro
Read more…I've been re-watching this, so I thought I'd try and do a timeline for it. The things in parentheses are the episode titles that I based the references on.
17 years before the Big Bang: The Nibblonians come into existence. ("The Day the Earth Stood
Read more…Having started reading comics in the 70s and experiencing the Silver Age through reprints, I am wondering what you guys who read them when they first came out felt about certain occurances. My reactions were in hindsight, sometimes already knowing wh
Read more…Really the way Helena and Karen have been written is just rare in comic books. Good friends, no lesbian subtext (Not that I mind that sometimes), willing and able to back each other up emotionally and physically despite the power difference between t
Read more…Space Family Robinson Volume Five
Dark Horse Comics
$49.99, color, 219 pgs.
Writer: Gaylord DuBois
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Collecting Space Family Robinson #32-39 (Feb 69-Apr 74), March of Comics #328 (Jan 69)
While Western Publishing’s Space Family Ro
Read more…If you have read Black Widow since the new series began, you know what a phenomenal job artist Phil Noto has done on this book.
I am pointing this out because I think before this series began, he was known as a great pinup artist, but his sequential
Read more…I haven't read it, but from what I understand, fans of the pre-New-52 Birds of Prey might want to pick up this week's Batgirl and the next few issues. It looks like Babs is getting a few familiar guest stars...
Read more…Someone mentioned publisher Goodwin's habit of having various companies on paper, and having complicated publishing deals as a method of protecting them from having one go under and dragging the whole operation under.
Can anyone shed more light on
Read more…As most everyone else I liked Birds of Prey and when Simone moved off that to Wonder Woman and then was shoved off of Wonder Woman I wasn't happy. She has a gift for small team dynamics and characterization that fits stuff like Birds of Prey or the S
Read more…Checking In On the X-Men
Back in June, I brought home my usual stack of comic books. That’s always fun. But I noticed that this particular stack had not one, not two, but seven different issues of X-Men- the latest issue of five separate ongoing t
Read more…GRAYSON #1 (Sep 14)
"Grayson"
Writer: TIM SEELEY
Plot: TIM SEELEY, TOM KING
Art: MIKEL JANIN
Colors: JEROMY COX
Letters: CARLOS M. MANGUAL
Cover: ANDREW ROBINSON
Well, this is fun.
I've never been what you'd call a Dick Grayson fan. For reasons that
Read more…We've all done it as kids...
Thought we could trust one of our friends, perhaps a neighborhood kid, with the loan of a comic book or two.
It goes well at first, you let them one or two issues, they get them back to you.... or perhaps they offer a few
Read more…BEST BETS
100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- SPIDER-MAN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of 75th-anniversary books -- Marvel Comics #1 debuted in 1939 -- that shows what Marvel heroes might look like in 2061, 100 years after Fantastic Four #1. If do
Read more…The Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Volume 2
Collecting Teen Titans (first series) #6-20, Brave and Bold #83, Nov 66-May 69
Writers: Bob Haney, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams
Artists: Bill Molno, Sal Trapani, Nick Cardy, Irv Novic
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