Green Lantern: Sector 2814 Volume 1 & 2
By Len Wein, Dave Gibbons, Steve Engelhardt, Joe Staton and Bruce Patterson
The Len Wein-Dave Gibbons run on Green Lantern is one of those mythical comic book creatures. I’ve heard others mention it. I’ve
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I’m back. As I mentioned in part one, I had a huge stack of comic books waiting for me at my local shop as the comic book companies tried to get everything published before the end of the year. I had so many new comics, in fact, that I didn’t ha
Read more…Invincible Iron Man Vol. 8: Unfixable and Invincible Iron Man: Fear Itself
By Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca
These two volumes collect Invincible Iron Man #501-509, as well as a few specials: Free Comic Book Day 2010: Iron Man/Thor, Rescue #1
Read more…I find comics endlessly fascinating. Not only do I enjoy reading them, I enjoy talking about them and writing about them. I enjoy reading about them historically or academically. And I enjoy shopping for them and collecting them. When it comes to
I recently read an entire year’s worth of X-Men comics in a single weekend. Well, technically it was only ten months but, with Marvel double shipping some months, it was more than 25 single issues.
The Adventure
For starters, it was a lot of f
Read more…For decades, superhero comics were viewed as disposable fiction- escapist stories for adolescent boys. However, despite the initial dismissive attitude, both superheroes and comics have endured. Far from being disposable, superheroes and the comics
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The future is a pretty interesting place to be, especially in comics. Stories set in the future have long been a comic book staple from early days of Buck Rogers in the 25th century to last year’s big hit Saga. Some of comics’ greatest stories w
Read more…I saw a couple of posts on Facebook this week as various comic book friends alerted the world that Astro City ½ was now available electronically. Every single friend mentioned the same thing- “this is the comic book that made me cry.”
Well, Kurt
Read more…We've recently moved our columnists, but older columns can't be moved without losing the Legionnaires' comments, which we value highly. So we've left older columns -- called "Blogs" in OldSpeak -- where they were originally. For older Chris Fluit col
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