CAPTAIN'S NOTE: I flat ran out of time this week. I've cobbled together what books I think are shipping and added most of what PR I've been sent, but that's all I've got time for. The rest is up to you!
Yesterday, Kathy and I caught a matinee of the Broadway adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, starring John Berenthal as Sonny and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Sal -- the bank robbers played by Al Pacino and John Cazale in the movie. It was a really entertaining
I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no
Right now I'm looking through the longbox I have labled "Manga Prime." Lone Wolf & Cub was the first manga series I collected. I was led to it by Frank Miller (in much the same way I was led to the work of Alex Toth by Howard Chaykin, and the work of
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
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
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
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.
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
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
