Welcome to another Comics Guide, with your humble Captain as your guide, historian and court jester. Let's start, as usual, with the books the publishers have been pushing with PR and previews:
PUBLISHER PICKS
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #2
Script: Robert
From the Las Vegas Press Enterprise: "LAS VEGAS: Madame Tussauds Devotes Room to Marvel Heroes"
Read more…In my last article The Justice Society of America vs the War on Terror, I argued that issues 41 and 42 of JSA, published in late 2002, added up to a rather rueful look at the build-up to the war in Iraq, which would begin in 2003. The message only co
1)"Pterodactyls are vermin. Do not feed." "Do not feed the flying pests!"
2)Dickens!
3)"Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill"?
4)"Knitting for Girls"?
5)"The skulls eat them." Awesome.
6)"I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away." I'm gl
Read more…Mile High Comics is having an auction of stuff they had lying around, and one of the items is so cool that Chuck Rozanski is opening the bidding to people by phone. It's the complete color guide to FF #88 in its original folder.
He expects it to go
Read more…Thoughts for comics and stuff that will be coming out in January...
Tales of the Legion of Super-heroes #315
September 1984
Cover art by: Terry Shoemaker & Karl Kesel
Story: Judgement!
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Terry Shoemaker
Inks: Karl Kesel
A trio of Legionnaires are hot on the trail of Ontiir in Dark Circle
Read more…The Impossible Astronaut
1)"Says she's going to some planet called 'America'."
2)"I wear a Stetson, now. Stetsons are cool."
3)"Space 1969".
4)"I'm 1103."
5)"Or, 'Hello', as people used to say."
6)"My life in your hands, Amelia Pond."
7)"Hippie." "Arc
Read more…Oct. 10, 2013 -- We can learn a lot of lessons from old horror comics.
These lessons weren’t evident until recently. As most comics fans know, horror comics – and comics in general – were nearly wiped out when public hysteria panicked comics publishe
Read more…Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be another bumpy Comics Guide!
First up this week is a big new title from Valiant Comics: Unity #1, the publisher's first team book. It's clear Valiant has high hopes for it, because they've buried me in press rel
Read more…Justice League Dark Volume 2: The Books of Magic
Collecting Justice League Dark #0, 7-12; Justice League Dark Annual #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Mikel Janin
DC Comics, $16.99, color, 224 pages
There's a lot to like about Justice League Dark, but
Read more…I realized while scanning this in, this comic is the oldest one I own. I wasn't even around in 1951. Was Veronica ever not sexy?
Read more…Oct. 29, 2013 -- There’s been a rash of good, scary books in the comics world, and the spooky season gives us an excuse to talk about them.
At the top of my list is Zombillenium (NBM, $14.99), more a spoof of horror stories than a genuine chiller. Bu
Nov. 6, 2013 -- The Walking Dead has conquered comics and TV. Now zombies are coming for your favorite board games.
Coinciding with Halloween, USAopoly has released Walking Dead versions of old favorites Monopoly and RISK. As if those games weren’t c
Read more…Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #87
September 1965
Cover art: Curt Swan & Sheldon Moldoff
Story: The Arena of Doom
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Art: Al Plastino
Hey Superman learns that Brainiac is a robot! After getting Brainiac to put Jimmy Olsen's brain bac
Read more…Candy for Halloween? That is so 2011.
Instead, you could get – and keep or give away – free comics! Because Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. and most comic shops have teamed up to give away free funnybooks just before All Hallow’s Eve.
It’s called Hal
Read more…So I just read that Marvel and Netflix have reached agreement on 5 series'. Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones will each get a 13 episode series culminating in a Defenders series.
Here's one link. What do you think? I think Marvel's do
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