Anyone else read the 0.1 issue? This was the first Guardians story I've ever read, and I have to say that Bendis did a fantastic job. McNiven provides the art quite nicely also.
The book features the origin of Peter Quill, who I found out from readi
Read more…This a collection of two different stories by Jack Jackson. Both of them are about Texas History, and are really well done. They would fit in perfectly with Luke's discussion on educational comics.
Jack Jackson was part of of the underground comic mo
Read more…Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton
Fantagraphics Books
$39.99, color, 266 pages
Writer and artist: Basil Wolverton
Reprinting "Spacehawk" stories in Target Comics (vol. 1) #5-12 (Jun 40-Jan 41), Target Comics (vol. 2) #1-12 (Mar 41-Feb 42), Target Comics (
Read more…Adventures into the Unknown Volumes One-Two
Reprinting Adventures into the Unknown #1-10 (Fall 48-April 50)
Forbidden Worlds Volume One
Reprinting Forbidden Worlds #1-5 (Jan 51-April 52)
Out of the Night Volume One
Reprinting Out of the Night #1-6
Read more…Over in the 12 Questions thread
Kirk G said:
In some ways, the questions that were selected are interesting in themselves. Are there others that would be fun to answer? What comic book did you either defend against friends' criticism or refuse to sha
Read more…MAD Archives Volume 4
DC Comics
$59.99, color, 243 pages
Writers and artists: The Usual Gang of Idiots
Reprinting MAD #19-24 (Jan-Jul 55)
This is such a wonderful and wonderfully perfect book, it makes me weep that it's the last.
Let's start at the
Read more…Hellblazer #300
Vertigo, $4.99, color, 48 pages
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artists: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Landini
What kind of send-off do you give a character like John Constantine?
He's not really gone, of course -- he's just moved to The New 5
Read more…Here is it at last, the last Ask Mr. Silver Age column, from CBG #1699"
Imitation was the sincerest form of getting a plot started in DC’s Silver Age
DC’s Great Pretenders!
Dear Mr. Silver Age,
Your column on heroes and villains who disguised thems
Read more…There's been some interest in Don Rosa's work here on the site, and I thought I'd point anyone interested towards this epilogue that he wrote for a 9-book prestige collection of his work.
Not hard to guess what his number one reason for quitting wa
Read more…Vibe #1
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artists: Andrew Kreisberg, Pete Woods, Wean Parsons
Amazingly, it does not suck.
The new Vibe is kinda interesting. He's an earnest young man who is a double victim of Darkseid's invasio
Read more…Green Arrow #17
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Andrea Sorrentino
OK, this is more like it.
I read the first issue of The New 52 Green Arrow, then a year later the "zero" issue, and neither interested me in the least.
Read more…Katana #1
DC Comics, $2.99, color, 32 pages
Writer: Ann Nocenti
Artist: Alex Sanchez
It's early yet, but so far, so good.
The New 52 Katana shares her name and her possessed sword with her pre-New 52 predecessor, but that seems to be all. This new
Read more…Injustice: Gods Among Us #1
DC Comics, $3.99, color, 40 pages
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artists: Jeremy Raapack, Mike S. Miller, Axel Gimenez, Marc Deering
From Dark Knight Returns to Kingdom Come, we've all read a lot of possible dystopic futures for the
Read more…Vampirella Archives Volume Six
Dynamite, $49.99, B&W and color, 392 pages
Writers and Artists: Various
Reprinting Vampirella #36-42 (Sep 74-May 75)
The issues of Vampirella reprinted here by Dynamite were coming out at roughly the same time (mid-197
Read more…A New 52 Valentine's Day Special #1
DC Comics, $7.99, color, 64 pages
Writers and artists: Various
OK, I admit it: It's cute.
DC's Valentine's Day Special offers six stories mixing adventure and romance, with varying degrees of success. Catwoman re
Read more…Publisher To Serve As Home for Comics Based on Network’s Classic Hits!
San Diego, CA (February 25, 2013) – IDW Publishing and Cartoon Network Enterprises today announced that the two companies have forged a partnership to produce and release comics
Marvel #1
Begin with the best super heroes in comics--Marvel does it FIRST!!
HUGE story coming soon to fans, worldwide.
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From
Feb. 12, 2013
Los Angeles -- From the mind of Keu Cha (Witchblade, Rising Stars) comes a fantasy unheard off. Join Keu Cha this February as he uncovers a once great land, now steeped in darkness and decay.
The project of HEX started off with a
New York City Center Encores is staging a revival of 1966's musical It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! from March 20-24. I never thought I'd get a chance to see this... and yet here it comes, next month!
Don't know which day I'm going yet
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