Hi, friends! I wasn't around last week because I was off on vacation, leading up to my 25th wedding anniversary today.
Read more…Fist off great cover, a tribute to D&D artist David Trampier http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/03/david-a-trampier-obituary The main story has all of the characters in the element. They are all having the time of their lives, despite the antagonism betw
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Hi. My name is Tim Lawrence and I was the Creature Shop supervisor for Ghostbusters 2. I have kept a few things over the years and here is a link. Thanks for the look! ~T.~
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171331085398?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984
Read more…This is another one of the largely lost stories. Episode Three still exists, and was included in the "Lost in Time" collection. The story is set in the not-too-distant future, and the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria get caught up in the politica
Read more…Check out some of the suitcases I've painted! I buy them at yard sales and make them into kids' storage bins.
If you're interested in how I do it, check out my "how-to" blog here: http://www.yardsalesofyork.com/2014/05/21/turn-a-yard-sale-suitcase-
Read more…Still not sure about this title. It doesn't help that the Forever Evil ending is still un-known and that I'm still getting used to these new characters who have the same names and faces of the old ones but aren't. It's like walking into a room full o
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Forever Evil #7: DC Comics finally brings their epic Trinity War/Forever Evil storyline to its climax with three books this week: Justice League #30, Justice League of America #14 (the final issue) and Forever Evil #7 (of 7). I
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1:1 SCALE RED POWER BATTERY AND RING PROP REPLICA
With blood and rage of crimson red, ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, together with our hellish hate, we'll burn you all—that is your fate! Spread rage across the galaxy with this replic
ABE SAPIEN #15
Writers: MIKE MIGNOLA, SCOTT ALLIE
Art: JUAN FERREYRA
Cover: SEBASTIAN FIUMARA
On sale Aug 13
FC, 32 pages, $3.50
Ongoing
Roger returns!
Before the Black Flame, Hell on Earth, and the death of Roger, Abe faces a creature that threatens
Read more…I have to say I'm nut sure which Ragdoll this is, but I think it might be a re-boot of the original, not the one in the Secret Six. Even so Simone as a gift for this type of crazy villain (or villainess, it's hard to tell with Ragdoll). There is some
Read more…Avengers #158
April 1977
Cover art by: Jack Kirby & John Romita (these are the 2 that GCD and CBDB agree on)
Story: When Avengers Clash!
Writer: Jim Shooter
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Pablo Marcos
Man, that Wonder Man costume is really hard for m
Read more…This was the first Marvel Annual I bought, Fantastic Four Annual #3, 1965. I had only been reading Marvel for a few months by this time, so seeing all these characters in one story was quite a revelation to young Hoy. It also was my first comic book
Got this press release from DC today, which is just a glorified link. But the stuff they've posted is pretty interesting -- from an old fan's POV:
Today we posted new, exciting details on DC Comics’ September publishing event on DCComics.com, includ
Read more…I wanted to share this interesting sighting of Silver Age comics. The Naked City was a TV show that ran from 1959-1963. Season 4, episode 1, original airdate 9-19-62, episode title "Hold For Gloria Christmas", had the following comics connection. At
Read more…EDITOR'S NOTE: After assembling the Comics Guide throughout the week, and spending six hours writing and editing it today (Sunday, April 27), I have accidentally deleted it.
Yes, the whole damn thing. Twelve takes, an untold number of man hours, a c
Read more…With Archie being dead in another part of the Archie universe... Just strange. It's amazing how the character are and are not like the Archie characters I've always known. Archie is still ernest, determined, Betty is still sweet, Veronica is still a
Read more…One of the things I do like about this book is the sharp contrast between the two main characters and how they can be traced to the differences of their fathers. Helena (in her case her mother as well) is subtle and moves about in costume, hugging
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Here are some of this week's noteworthy books:
Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza (Archie, $14.99): One of the greatest innovations in recent years at Archie Comics -- and there have been plenty -- has been for the publisher to ac
Read more…I bought the book header-title'd above to-day , after seeing it in a local (" real ") bookstore .
Inquiring after that at my LCS , I was told that it had been offered to comics shops as well , briefly .
It's a series of " semi-scholarly " (I hope
Read more…I enjoyed the first issue. Clear artwork and an intriguing non-linear chain of events. Good storytelling all around. Set in the '30s, black and white, with a Universal Studios moster movie feel. won't say it was decompressed, but it did end all too
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