Hermes says "Looks like the snow has us all stuck inside — and we thought, why not make the best of it?" Which sounds swell, but I don't know who they expect to deliver product to us. I haven't seen a car or truck -- certainly not UPS or DHL -- on my
I can't believe we've gone this long without starting a beer thread. I enjoyed the one on the old board and actually tried some of the beverages that were liked by others.
I've discovered that I really like Sam Adams Oktoberfest. I've never enjoyed
I still remember the day I bought Warlord #1 new off the spinner rack at Ahmann's Newsstand. It was the first (but not the last!) time I thought I was getting in on the beginning of a new series, when in fact I was not. I bought the second issue as w
On January 14, 2026, my mother, MaryAnn Portelli passed away quietly at home at the age of 87.
She went to the hospital on December 12, 2025, was almost sent to a rehab facility then took a turn for the worst. By Dec.19, doctors began to tell us to p
I have not read the Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series in its entirety for 30 years. I keep meaning to re-read the whole thing, but I have read just #11-12 many many times, most recently in 2010 and 2019. For the past year (almost), DC has been re
Has anyone heard of a show called Selling Superman? I'd never heard of it, but Jim Cornette discusses it here. (Language Warning) I hadn't heard of it, but apparently, it's about this guy who collected 300,000 comics - including some rare Golden and
As I said with Nova: Centurion last week, I'm on the fence on the titles emerging from Jonathan Hickman's "Imperial." In fact, I somehow missed Black Panther: Intergalactic #1 and Planet She-Hulk #2, a
In my columns over the years, I've sometimes referred to the "Nerd Canon" (which has amused my editors no end). These are the books that the fanboys and fangirls in my generation sought out as the seminal works we needed to have read to have nerd cre
By conventional superheroes, I mean the ones the people here are likely thinking of when we hear about superheroes: Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Forbush Man, and so forth. They have always existed in a version of ou
I'm starting this thread for the little things that I've discovered while re-reading my old books. This will probably be trivia of the most trivial nature but it is what it is!
Today I picked out TWO things from Detective Comics #446 (Ap'75):
The destruction of Krypton has been shown so many different times that you wouldn't think there was anything new to be learned, but this time it's told from an entirely different point of view: Krypto's! Writer Ryan North has almo
