I must admit I’ve never read even a single issue of The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor. But the archival reprints of old Gold Key material from Dark Horse and other publishers have piqued an interest in the output of this company that is not one of t
Read more…I've been making my way through Showcase Presents: Booster Gold for the second time (nothing earth-shattering, but fun ad solid all the way), and I was struck by something, and I was wondering how others felt about this at the time.
As I recall, when
I do not purport to be an expert in Native American Indian culture, but according to William Stout, “Turok and Andar were Plains Indians, specifically from the Mandan tribe. Their visual depiction was fairly accurate for a comic book; Turok and Andar
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This a great, very thoughtful review of the second issue of this Married Archie series...
Read more…Kid Eternity was a big star over at Quality Comics during the 40s, being featured in Hit Comics #25-60 (D'42-S'49) and 18 issues of his own titles (Spr'46-N'49). A good career in anyone's eyes. In fact, based on popularity and longevity, he should ha
Read more…It was last year that I attended Big Apple comic convention & got the pictures of the Batmobile (which can be found posted on the main site here). A friend sent me this link;
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-batmobile-replicas.html
I have
Read more…This is a great time to be a Captain America fan. With two ongoing series written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America and Secret Avengers) several limited series either already begun or on the way, I thought it would be nice to have a thread in place to
Read more…IDW is publishing some of the most consistently good Star Trek comic books ever. Several months ago, although she refeuses to watch them with me, my wife bought a DVD set of the TOS with enhanced special effects for me. I tried working my way through
Read more…Because seriously, it could happen.
I've been hearing really good things about Paul Cornell's Luthor stories, but I've been resisting it so far, because Luthor doesn't really interest me (his evil peaked in that diner years ago). But now there's gonna
The latest issue of Jonah Hex, #61, features a character we haven't seen in many a moon: Hex's first wife, Mei Ling!
You'll want to check this out on Bob Rozakis' blog... "The high cost of being a comics fanboy"
http://bobrozakis.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-cost-of-being-comics-fanboy.html
One of the admins ought to ask Mr. Rozakis if he'd consider doing a regular (mon
As I stated, I will re-read (or in some cases, really read) Grant Morrison's epic Seven Soldiers saga.
First is Seven Soldiers #0 (Ap'05). Has it been five years already?
It begins in Slaughter Swamp, birthplace of Solomon Grundy and already the
Read more…As I need a holiday (a long holiday) from Morrison's Gotham, I decided to revisit Central City from a more innocent time. Or was it? The first year or so that I read comics was a particularly fatal time as both the Invisible Kid and the Swordsman die
Read more…I don’t have the energy to follow all the Bat-titles anymore, but I do like to read a Batman story from time-to-time, and Howard Chaykin’s “Follow the Money” one-shot fills the bill of what I am looking for in a Batman story quite nicely: done-in-one
Read more…..... how are the Hulk books now? I'm considering giving Hulk and Incredible Hulks a try, now that the big crossover (s) are done.
I am less enthusiastic about a new Superboy comic book featuring Conner Kent than I would be about one featuring Clark Kent, but the first issue is off to a good start. What interests me the most, though, is the “Coming Soon” page at the end of the i
Read more…One of the best of Marvels' 70th Anniversary one-shots from last year was Young Allies Comics. Here's what I posted about it on June 18, 2009:
Usually, when it comes to interpreting what “really” happened in Golden Age comics in terms of modern con
Read more…I'm wondering if anyone has anything to say about the issues by Kieron Gillen ( # 604-614), or Matt Fraction's first issue ( #615)? I've heard a few positive things but it's been minimal.
As I unwrapped the Question Classic DC Figurine to put on display here in the store, it got me thinking.
What characters with "proper" super-hero (or villain, or whatever) get called by some other name in-story?
The Question was often referred to as "N
First there was Doctor Strange, then Iron Man, this week Daredevil. I'm enjoying these one-shots designed to look like '70s era b&w magazines (well, the covers, anyway; the stories themselves are modern). These comics are a good opprtunity to catch u
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