It has been said (by me) that buying new comics and not reading them is stupid. Yet I have spent a good portion of my life doing just that, a state of affairs I have spent a not insignificant portion of the last year, year-and-a-half, stiving to rect
Read more…Superman is widely considered to have entered the Silver Age with Action Comics #241 (June 1958) and Superman #122 (July 1958). Unlike the Flash and Green Lantern (for example), Superman was published continuously from the Golden Age into the Silver
Read more…I've changed the title of this thread from "Comic Book Sales Trends in 2016" because I keep coming back to it.
My friendly neighborhood comics shop, Fantom Comics of Washington, DC, breaks down what sold at the store in 2016. This information, of cou
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Lone Wolf & Cub was the first manga I ever read. (I didn't read Akira until years after it was first released in America.) Those First Comics issues had their flaws (skipped stories, uncompleted series, "flipped" artwork, published out of order, infe
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SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM HC (MR)
(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A/CA) Martin Morazzo
THE MIND-BENDING SERIES FROM THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT YOU THE ICE CREAM MAN! Superman faces his own worst weakness in a story where Kryptonite reveals
Read more…Adam Hughes' wife has revealed that he has cancer. Sad news. At least he's in with a chance, but a hard row to hoe, I'm sure.
Read more…I was looking through some old comics when I thought of a new game. I call it Three of a Kind. Here's my first entry.
Hoy
Diamond Comics Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. They also announced that they were selling off pieces of their large company - Alliance Games and Diamond UK were two mentioned today with others likely to happen soon.
What
Read more…I've saved the original thread, and I'll transfer the posts across as time permits. Painting of the Day (original series): Winter by Nicolas Poussin, a French painter of the 17th century who worked for most of his career in Rome. This is one of hi
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WONDER WOMAN #32
(W) Tom King (A/CA) Daniel Sampere
THE WONDER WAR CONTINUES! ALL HAIL THE MATRIARCH! After a disastrous attempt at stopping the Matriarch, she has risen more powerful than ever. Now it's up to Tri
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Didn't know what to expect from this new series. Different publishers have tried to bring back The Twilight Zone as a comic book series from time to time, but the results have never been all that impressive (to me), even with names such as Harlan Ell
Read more…In my estimation, Bill Everett is the most underrated talent of the Golden Age. His style continued to improve right up until his untimely death. Back in the ‘90s, I bought five sets of five issues each of GA Marvel Comics on microfiche just so I cou
Read more…1)This is the last of the "orphaned" episodes from the "Lost in Time" collections. Only Episode Two remains of this early effort from Robert Holmes.
2)Probably the only thing of interest here is the character of eccentric space miner Milo Clancey,
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FURY OF FIRESTORM #1 (OF 6)
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Rafael De Latorre
THE NUCLEAR MAN GOES NEXT LEVEL WITH JEFF LEMIRE AND RAFAEL DE LATORRE! The community of Bedford, Colorado, is a sleepy small town. The people say
Read more…I realized that I had access to all of RED RAVEN's Golden, Silver and Bronze Age appearances, few as they are and thought I would focus on this anomaly of Timely Comics. I will be going in publishing order because that's easier and will hightlight ce
Read more…I have been very much looking forward to the release of this audio, not only because it is from one of the legendary missing stories, not only because it features the Daleks, not only because it’s the longest Doctor Who serial ever (12 episodes plus
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*(a.k.a. "The Captain America of the 1950s," a.k.a. "The Other Steve Rogers"; this post largely transcribed from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index v1 #8A).
Captain America and Bucky returned to comics in the middle 1950s when stories of Marve
Read more…So after many years of gentle and not so gentle prodding I have finally started watching Doctor Who. In the past I have seen snippets of the new series, and generally walked away muttering “… all right … that was odd. … Don’t see much point in that.
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I'm not a big fan of war comics. I have read all of Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, but when it comes to Sgt. Rock or Sgt. Fury, I've never been able to get more than a Marvel Masterworks or DC Archives volume in before losing inte
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