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BATMAN ‘66 MEETS GREEN HORNET #1 (DC Comics, $2.99): If you're old enough (or watch Boomerang), you'll know that Green Hornet and Kato guest starred a couple of times on the 1966-68 Batman TV show. (Green Hornet was also a TV show running c
Read more…Back in 2007, I picked up a copy of John Ridley’s “The American Way.” A TPB which collected an 8 issue Wildstorm mini-series. I’m not sure what prompted me to pick it up. Maybe a positive review or Ridley’s involvement in the film “Three Kings.” In
Read more…So, we've discussed Hulk vs. Superman ad infinitum, and we're pretty sure that if Superman chose to, he could win the fight from outer space with heat vision.
However, what about Doomsday? Would this be anywhere close to an even fight? The monste
Read more…We're three issues into this weekly DC megaseries. It started with chaos and violence in the Free Comic Book Day issue 0. There was a lot of action -- and one gloriously creepy moment -- but with the dystopic 35-year future didn't have a lot of emoti
Read more…I enjoyed the first issue. Clear artwork and an intriguing non-linear chain of events. Good storytelling all around. Set in the '30s, black and white, with a Universal Studios moster movie feel. won't say it was decompressed, but it did end all too
Read more…Thing #1)This isn't really about the series - for aught I know, it's in all of the DC books this week, it just happens that this is the DC book I bought this week. Anyway, what it is is a house ad for the latest way DC is mis-handling the character o
Read more…Astro City: Confession (unnumbered, but third collected volume of Astro City)
Writer - Kurt Busiek
Pencils - Brent E. Anderson
Inks - Will Blyberg
Colors - Alex Sinclair
Covers(all) - Alex Ross
Letters - John G. Roshell; Comicraft
Collects issues
Read more…IMAGE EXPO ANNOUNCEMENTS
Image Comics made 12 earth-shattering announcements today
For the first time ever, the eagerly-anticipated Image Expo—a showcase for exciting new projects and creators as they join the Image Comics team—went on-location to
Read more…With Archie being dead in another part of the Archie universe... Just strange. It's amazing how the character are and are not like the Archie characters I've always known. Archie is still ernest, determined, Betty is still sweet, Veronica is still a
Read more…DC is selling several Batman collections for $2.99 each today only (it's Batman Day). These are seriously cheap. I've already read Year One and the other classics, but there are several recent collections that tempt me. Quickly, Bat fans! There's no
Read more…Still not sure about this title. It doesn't help that the Forever Evil ending is still un-known and that I'm still getting used to these new characters who have the same names and faces of the old ones but aren't. It's like walking into a room full o
Read more…I've been reading some early Superboy recently, and I had a handful of questions.
* Humpty Dumpty? Really? Really?
* When did Superboy start using Superboy robots and Clark Kent robots and robots in general?
* How big was Smallville supposed to b
Read more…I bought the book header-title'd above to-day , after seeing it in a local (" real ") bookstore .
Inquiring after that at my LCS , I was told that it had been offered to comics shops as well , briefly .
It's a series of " semi-scholarly " (I hope
Read more…BO, PLUSHY GANGSTA: KINGDOM OF BO (TPB)
Writer/Art/Cover: PAVEL BALABANOV
128 Pgs./ Mature Readers/FC/$14.99
Are the legends of Bo, the “teddy bear” gangsta, true? And, did we just say teddy bear gangsta?! You’re about to find out-- when the soul of
Read more…As most everyone else I liked Birds of Prey and when Simone moved off that to Wonder Woman and then was shoved off of Wonder Woman I wasn't happy. She has a gift for small team dynamics and characterization that fits stuff like Birds of Prey or the S
Read more…Guogg
During the 1960s I was a big reader of the Silver Age comics. I especially enjoyed such types as Unknown Worlds, Forbidden Worlds, Adventures Into the Unknown, and similar genre.
In one of the many I read was one story titled GUOGG. Guogg was
Read more…IDW PUBLISHING
24 #5
ED BRISSON (W)
MICHAEL GAYDOS (A)
PAUL SHIPPER (C)
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“Underground” comes to a fiery conclusion! With both the CIA and the Russian mafia hot on his heels, Jack Bauer must find a way to escape them and res
Read more…Really the way Helena and Karen have been written is just rare in comic books. Good friends, no lesbian subtext (Not that I mind that sometimes), willing and able to back each other up emotionally and physically despite the power difference between t
Read more…I wish I'd known about this before I wrote my Archie column!
WELCOME TO DARK CIRCLE COMICS
About a year ago I bought a longbox at a show and I'm only now having a chance to go through it. Been a rough year. Anyway one of the titles I've found is Mario Gully's Ant. Only one issue and I've never heard of it before. Anyone know the character?
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