- The opening sequence with Matt Hawk was very reminiscent of Wesley Dodds at the beginning of Kingdom Come. - Namor rising out of a wave to kill Nazis as if he were a force of nature was a very powerful image. - FDR knew about the Human Torch before
Read more…http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/cr_sunday_feature_lets_you_and_i_make_a_list_nominees_for_best_of_decade_20/ Spurgeon is looking for suggestions of books he might have missed...
Read more…http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090921-dc-dec-09-solicitations.html Some really cool covers this month...Secret Six, World's Finest, the Holiday Special...
Read more…Why did John Ostrander feel the need to include several of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words in this comic? Now I have to move it to the Mature Readers section. Other than that, it was awesome!
Read more…Reading the Shadow mini I saw this ad and remembered it from way back when:
This was a freebie this week. For the most part these Marvel Sagas have been hit and miss. I liked this one though. I really knew nothing about Moon Knight. I think the only story I every read with him was Round Robin in Amazing Spider-man which was
Read more…http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/ Bully is doing a post an hour for 24 hours today! I had no idea that Jack had a cameo as a police sketch artist on an episode of the Bill Bixby Hulk television show! See it at Bully's site!
Read more…'Point's blog about the Black Widow got me to thinking about how since our heroes don't age normally, they often outlive elements of their origins, i.e., as the USSR recedes into the past, Natasha's past as a Soviet spy will doubtless recede with it.
Read more…I stopped reading the X-Men regularly quite some time ago. Then John Byrne began doing The Hidden Years and that became my one “go to” X-Men title for many months until Joe Quesada unceremoniously pulled the plug on it. Since then I read and enjoyed
Read more…http://www.comixology.com/articles/302/All-the-Comics-in-the-World-Silent-Interlude- This is a really nice bit of writing...
Read more…...I totally jumped the gun in my criticism of Peter's characterization in Waid's recent issue...I should have known better...
Read more…I haven't seen any mention of this (mostly because I'm way behind on my spoiler-thread reading) but Amazing Spider-Man #599 has ret-conned away Sins Past. How? (here comes the spoiler) In #599, Norman Osborn mentions that he thought he was sterile b
Read more…...and this review reminds me why... http://www.the-isb.com/?p=2151
Read more…http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/167895 So it begins...
Read more…Pretty simple. Someone proposes a comics character that was either an utter failure, a laughing stock, a Mopee, a character that's had a hard time finding a good direction, or something similar. Someone else takes their best shot at breathing life in
Read more…My "Mr. Vertigo Reviews Again" postings used to appear in this category on the old board. So I thought I'd mention that they are continuing in the Vertigo group here. I just posted my monthly installment in the thread Mr. Vertigo Reviews Again - 2009
Read more…After I heard that Marvel had acquired the rights to the Marvelman/Miracleman franchise, it sent me scrambling to find my back issues published by Eclipse. I had read the Alan Moore run in TPB form shortly after its U.S. publication and most of the N
Read more…Both were launched in the Silver Age, both were the premiere super-team of their respective universes. Which one is your favorite? Which series did you like reading better? Which one reads better today?
Read more…There sure have been a lot of them ... here are some of the ones I enjoyed. Hobgoblin Lives - Back in the 80's, Roger Stern created the Hobgoblin, a worthy successor to the original (and then dead) Green Goblin. He also crafted a great mystery aroun
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