Let's try something new this week. Instead of leading with the titles the publishers recommend, I'll lead with the ones *I* recommend. Hey, I actually get paid to be a critic, so it's not as egotistical as it sounds! OK, maybe it is. But let's give i
Read more…Who has already seen Captain America? I saw it last night.
It's a good movie. I know a lot of people are saying it's their favorite of the Marvel movies. Not sure I'd go that far. It came close. I had a headache when I saw it so I may need to see i
Read more…Matt Kindt's current series revisits the espionage theme he has used before (most notably in the Super Spy books). But this time we are dealing with a secret organization that can actually rewrite reality, through various sophisticated, powerful mind
Read more…When you think of Thanksgiving, you think of turkey, of course. And the Macy’s parade. And football. But Thanksgiving is not associated with gift giving. Not usually, anyway. This, however, will be a story of a most remarkable Thanksgiving gift.
Harlan Ellison has announced Volume Five of his Brain Movies series, featuring teleplays. Among the stories in this volume is a Two-Face story he pitched for Batman. Link
Read more…1)I like Brian Williams, he's a fun character. Nice of NBC to give him the time off to do it.
2)"Nice to meet you." Wouldn't he have met him at the wedding, or did Brian have the same flu Wilfred Mott had?
3)This time the logo is all scaly, very am
Read more…1)Skaro? Didn't the Seventh Doctor blow it up 25 years ago? I guess it got better.
2)I'm not buying the Amy/Rory divorce scenario. Not that our heroes couldn't have marital troubles, more that the scenario as presented seems too "manufactured", too
Read more…So, many years ago, I bought a two pack of model kits on eBay for my kids for Xmas. One was the Hulk, and the other was Spidey. I remember these ads from the backs of silver age Marvel comics, but I never bought nor built one.
My kids turned their
Meet Bonnie Taylor, the high-flying stewardess who ended almost every story with a broken heart. She cruised the skies for over two years, from Nov. 1963 through Dec. 1965/Jan. 1966, in DC's romance comic, Young Romance. Peter Parker never knew so
Read more…Ask not what your Comics Guide can do for you, ask what you can do for your Comics Guide! (Which is read it, of course.)
Let's start, as usual, with the books with press releases and previews:
PUBLISHERS PICKS
ALL-NEW X-MEN #19
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
A behind the scenes sort of movie that I just spotted on BBC America. I hadn't heard about this but according to the schedule they are doing a lot of Doctor Who tomorrow with a new team up episode with the Matt Smith and David Tennent. Meanwhile the
Read more…The latest creator-owned Jonathan Hickman series has the credits Story By: Jonathan Hickman;
Art By: Nick Dragotta. It's notable that the TPB collection doesn't show the subtitle anywhere, nor does it contain the usual blurb summarizing what the stor
Read more…Some final thoughts on how DC’s JSA comics addressed the early years of the ‘War on Terror’. This third column will focus on how the Princes of Darkness storyline looked forward to what it would involve in the longer term.
JSA #41 – 51 (published
Read more…I'm not reading either book. Are any of you? What are your thoughts?
Read more…Has anyone noticed a small one-dollar book that snuck onto the shelves this month?
It's part of the Hundred Penny press reprint line from IDW.
It's a reprinting of THUNDER Agents #1....featuring Dynamo, Noman and the Iron Maiden....
How nice to see
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The Interpretation of Art
Or
The Art of Interpretation
So begins a fascinating set of interconnected storylines that DC published in JSA, between December 2002 and September 2003. JSA was a comics series that gave us the latest incarnati
Read more…I've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks now, trying to see what I could find out myself and these questions may be more speculative than factual. Still the Original Teen Titans always get shunted aside for the New Teen Titans so here's to Com
Read more…There are also discussions about the 60s JLA/JSA team-ups and the 70s JLA/JSA team-ups so feel free to read, comment or add on to those as well!
JUSTICE LEAGUE # 183-185 (O-D'80): Where Have All The New Gods Gone?/ Apokolips Now!/Darkseid Rising!
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Read more…I just saw this movie the other night and all I can say is....wow.
It's like they took a comic book and turned it into a movie. If you've read comics for any length of time you'll recognize the story pattern and tempo, the fights are massive and comi
Read more…In book-length collections , what stuff gets included ~ and what gets LEFT OUT ?????????
How about censorings/expurgation , whether for legal or changing tastes , eh ?????????
Some collections (as I'll call all book-length collections here , though I
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