Go!
Secret Six
20th Century Boys
The X-books as a whole currently
Golly!
Flash (just because of that AMAZING Manapul art)
Read more…So today I found myself reading two of Geoff Johns' recent mini-epics: Flash Rebirth and Legion of 3 Worlds. And with both of them, when I put them down, I just felt this feeling of fatigue from trying to keep up with the almost overwhelming amount o
Read more…...I really wish he'd get some references when he's doing a period piece like First Wave. As gorgeous as the art is, about the only things that he used to indicate a late '30s time frame were the double-breasted police uniforms and the fedoras on th
Read more…I thought we had a "Member Appreciation" thread somewhere, but I can't find it. So I'm creating my own.
Read more…[Note: I accidentally posted this under the "Newsboy" login I use for PR, so I'm re-posting under my correct name. I've also added the one response before I caught the error, from Luke Blanchard. Mea culpa!]
Hail, Legionnaires! The Emergency Signal sh
Taking a tip from my friend, the Baron, I'm going to keep a record of all the comics I read in 30 days, starting with today. I will include any issues contained in TPB format, and any OGNs as well.
I don't know what the character/line number limits Ni
Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine #1 - Highly developed mammals in that period of prehistory? I guess I can write it off to evolution in the Marvel universe being different, but it still bothered me.
Brightest Day #1 - Man, if you're a person of co
Read more…Renumbering series for "anniversary" issues is all the rage, after rejiggering the numbers time and again on various titles to give us new #1 issues. Fortunately, DC didn't go whole hog with this nonsense and (mostly) left alone Batman, Detective Com
Read more…I've mentioned before that I must have the most common tastes in comics in America, because books I have medium or little interest in get canceled with such regularity. (Sometimes books that I DO like are canceled, but often I assumed they would beca
Read more…Despite changing the last "Iron Man" title to "War Machine" which led to its cancellation, it seemed that "Invincilbe Iron Man" would be the main Iron-title. But now there's "Iron Man:Legacy" (IM:L) which appears to portray Tony Stark as he is in the
Read more…Moving my volume-by-volume examination of the Fantastic Four out of "What Comic Books Have You Read Today?" and into a thread of its own.
Read more…At the lovely Comic Store West, the wife, daughter and I picked up:
HeroClix War Machine -- Nice, and a powerful playing piece to boot!
FCBD Iron Man -- Daughter selected this.
FCBD DC Kids -- Daughter selected this.
FCBD Bongo Comics -- Both my daughter
Bill DuBay died recently. An article here has an account of his career. Rest in peace.
Read more…Hail, Legionnaires! The Emergency Signal shines forth once again!
As most of you know, I'm pursuing my Master's degree in Journalism at the University of Memphis -- and my thesis combines journalism and comics. But I've narrowed down the topic, and ne
http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner~y2010m4d16-The-50-best-author-vs-author-putdowns-of-all-time
Refreshing to see that a lot of the greats don't consider other greats...uh great. Plus, the critics can really turn a phrase.
