I have all the Black Centipede/Vionna Valis novels and short stories
posted at my blog, and they are available for free downloading as pdf
files!
"The Optimist Book One"
"Vionna and the Vampires"
"Forty Whacks"
"Wisconsin Death Trip"
"Close Encounter
I've been thinking more and more lately about how much I do that is bad for the Earth. One thing I decided this morning, just out of the blue, is to stop bagging my comics. I'm not sure why I do bag them. It's just, well, what we collectors do. Thing
Read more…Newsarama has been doing a series of articles about Captain Marvel. I havne't read any of them yet but I thought some of you here may find it interesting. You can find it here.
The article I linked to is the most current one but there's links to the
Read more…This story was originally plotted, penciled and inked in 1998 for the eighth issue of the series Marvel Universe. In his brief introduction, writer Roger Stern explains that the two or three pages of script he had roughed out were “lost a couple of c
Read more…By request: earlier AND with numbers!!!!
1.First I would like to thank Caleb at Every Day Is Like Wednesday for for doing some counting for me: 12 Captain America titles, and that doesn't even include the Avengers titles he appears in.
2. I
Lee Falk's creations , the King Features Syndicate characters The Phantom and Mandrake The Magician , are still published as syndicated strips , but I don't know , for instance , how many people here follow those versions , even .
There have been m
Read more…Can anyone here , please , point me to confirmation that the " Casper And The Spectrals " TPB , collected the first trhree issues of the magizine format miniseries plus some extra material , is actually coming out ?
A few weeks back , at a comics s
Read more…My fingers are crossed that people will order the HOPE: The Hero Initiative anthology http://tinyurl.com/26gqws5 because artist Mario Gonzalez http://www.wyliman.com/ and I are in it, and because it's for a great cause (The Hero Initiative).
It's i
I gave a pass to this collection when it was originally released in 2008 because only half of it dealt with the classic (i.e., pre-1953) period. However, I’ve since come to realize that quite a bit of the “new” material (i.e., post-1973) which I have
Read more…Your local paper may or may not be carrying this story, but you can certainly find it on the Internet.
Basically, all those cups from the 1970s and 1980s are chocked full of lead where they were painted.
It's unclear, but it looks like the cups now car
Hi everybody,
It's been awhile since I've been here, but I thank those of you who have taken the time to friend me on Facebook.
Anyhow, onto the topic at hand. I am the editor of Panels for Primates, an ongoing charity anthology at http://act-i-
Read more…When I was in the seventh grade I had a friend, Billy, who was in the eighth grade. Billy didn’t know too much about comics but was eager to learn. When I showed him my stack of Marvel and DC treasury editions he was a little disappointed that the ar
Read more…I had little interest in the new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents series until I read in a recent “DC Nation” column that it is to be a continuation of the original series rather than a re-start. That’s cool, I think. It inspired me to work my way completely th
Read more…In the current issues of Thor, our Hammer-Hurler is in a bad mood. Asgard is in ruins, Odin is dead (at least for now) and the Thunder God is sulking. He pushes Sif away when she tries to comfort and does the same to the Warriors Three when they try
Read more…DC has just announced a Red Lantern Corps ongoing to launch later this year, written by Peter Milligan. Thoughts?
Read more…Might as well start now. Put anything that stands out while reading you're favorite comics this year. It'll make it easy during the nomination process in December.
Read more…Spoiler space.
Read more…The A/V Club apologizes to its readers because another website, Comics Comics, flags its review of the book Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth as being bogus, owing to the fact that not only is the book not published yet, its still in th
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