"A secret agent resigns, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in "The Village"... a bizarre community with a cheery veneer, but an underbelly of mystery and threat. All occupants of the Village have numbers instead of names, with our secret agent
I direct your attention to the article which appeared in this week's Comic Shop News, #2012, March 11, 2026. It's not available online, so those of you who still read comics will have to pick it up at your LCS. The folks who publish CSN these days ar
Every once in a while a comic book story which doesn’t meet with universal fan approval is published. Soon after, a letter to the editor or a post to a message board such as this one calls for that story to be “Mopeed out of continuity.” But Mopee is
Alan Scott first appeared in All-America Comics #16 in 1940 as a construction engineer (although he later switched professions and became a radio engineer). As Green Lantern, he was a founding member of the J
Question: when is an Imaginary Story not an Imaginary Story?
While you think on that for a moment, I’ll set the Wayback Machine for a little trip. The time: 1959. The place: the National Periodical Publications building at 2d and Dickey Streets,
One doesn't have to read too many of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels (in sequence) before smacking headlong into "The Great Korak Time Discrepancy." Briefly, Tarzan son Jack was introduced as an infant in The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), but when he
Anthony Tollin has posted the below on Facebook. Haven't seen anything about it elsewhere yet.
"RIP legendary DC Comics colorist TATJANA WOOD who just passed away at age 99. Tatjana had decades long runs on OUR AT WAR/SGT. ROCK and SWAMP THING, and in
It's another week where I have to cobble together the guide. It worries me how many errors might creep in. And it doesn't leave me a lot of time to actually talk about the books! Annoying.
I was flipping through the new Lost Marvels: Savage Tales collection when I came across a beautifully-rendered aerial battle drawn by an artist whose style I didn't recognize. Checking the credits, to my surprise the artist was Herb Trimpe! Editor La
Story The RiffTrax team of Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, along with Mary Jo Pehl, will be making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, reprising their roles from the show's Sci-Fi Channel era. Apparently, their kicks
GoCollect.com pooped out on me this week. I was starting to feel confident in its list, and the separation by publisher was convenient. Since it's unavailable this week (and for all I know forever) I'm looking at other sites, which aren't quite as co
I am enjoying this mini-series more than I probably should. I liked Stern/Romita Spider-Man in the ‘80s and was interested in the mystery surrounding the Hobgoblin’s identity. As soon as Tom DeFalco took over the writing from Roger Stern, though, he
I don't remember when it was, exactly, that I lost interest in Superman. There was a time, from Crisis on Infinite Earths until well into the 2Ks, that I had complete collections of every Superman title published (Superman, Action Comics, Adventures
