Welcome to the discussion of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese.
Spoilers ahoy, everybody! Because there’s certainly one big surprise here to spoil.
American Born Chinese was published in 2006 by First Second as an original graphic
Read more…I've gotten the beta machine to work and on those longer tapes I've found other stuff I'd forgotten I'd taped. Genesis 2, New Adventures of Beans Baxture, an episode of Lady Blue, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, a clip from the Killer Tomatoes cartoo
Read more…Hey everybody,
Here's an interview I conducted with Mimi Pond for the Village Voice, about her graphic novel Over Easy.
I couldn't find a discussion topic on Batman Eternal, so I thought I'd start one here. I am actually only a sporadic reader of it, but I know some of you are reading it, at least as regularly as I.
Here's a spot for discussion!
Read more…One more press release of interest:
THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS
Here are some of this week's noteworthy books:
Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza (Archie, $14.99): One of the greatest innovations in recent years at Archie Comics -- and there have been plenty -- has been for the publisher to ac
Read more…CRIMSON SOCIETY#1
Writer: Mike Hunau
Art: Carlos Trigo
Cover: Carlos Trigo
Variant: Daniel Logan
In the very near future, supernatural beings live among humans in peace, yet Jack Crimson finds his life as a werewolf frustrating, and wants nothing mor
Read more…I don't usually post PR about e-comics, but this one sounds like it might be of interest to the Legion:
VIZ IS NOW ON COMIXOLOGY
More than 500 VIZ Media manga titles are now available on comiXology throughout North America including NARUTO, ONE PIEC
Read more… Saga #1
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art & Cover by Fiona Staples
Saga is the story of two soldiers from opposite sides of a war that fall in love and bring a child into a very dangerous universe. Alana is from Landfall, the largest planet in the ga
Read more…Yup, I threatened to do this, now it's going to happen. I'd thought about waiting until I was finished with Howard the Duck but I decided to go ahead and get started.
For this discussion, I'll be covering Luke Cage: Hero For Hire #1-16, Luke Cage:
Read more…If you have read Black Widow since the new series began, you know what a phenomenal job artist Phil Noto has done on this book.
I am pointing this out because I think before this series began, he was known as a great pinup artist, but his sequential
Read more…HULK VS. IRON MAN #1: An unsuccessful attempt to shoehorn Tony Stark behind-the-scenes of Hulk #1. It’s an Original Sin spin-off mini-series which is set in the present but flashes back to the past. It’s co-plotted and scripted by Mark Waid and the a
Read more…I've been looking forward to this. Crossovers are common of course, but this reminds me of the original Scooby Doo crossovers. I don't think that Cartoon Network is as creative as it used to be, but there was a time when they were really dynamic with
Read more…I recently bought the first issue of Evan Dorkin's THE ELTINGVILLE CLUB , from Dark Horse (Actually , judging from the next-issue promo in the issue , and what I saw when I looked up its listing at DH's site this nite ~ It seems like #2 has been dela
Read more…So, after reading through Mark Ogilvie's thread "Are comic book writers limited to no new characters?" one of the things I began thinking about was whether anything even close to an iconic superhero/supervillain character has been created since Wolve
Read more…Read issue #1 earlier. Three origins in this one.
Superman: They had to start with Supes, I suppose. Pretty much the familiar origin, told with alternate voice-overs from Lara and Ma Kent. Apparently, New 52 Lara was a soldier, which I'm pretty s
Read more…The present issue of ROLLING STONE (Jack White cover) has a cover-blurbed mini-/potted history of the X-Men , cover the comics first start , then re-start , and how the movies started . I don't know whether it's on-line or no .
Read more…I was in the LCS and the conversation mentioned that another version of the Green Goblin was going to appear. I questioned why there were no new villains and the guy behind the counter said that it was all money. According to him new villains and cha
Read more…The Great Disaster” is an epic tale spanning many titles and manu years in the DC Universe. The stories in this volume are presented in chronological order within the DCU’s timeline rather than in the order of the issues’ original release dates. In a
Read more…ACTION LAB
Writers: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT, DEWAYNE FEENSTRA
Art: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT, NOTE LOVETT
Cover: JEREMY DALE, RAY-ANTHONY HEIGHT
32 pgs./ All Ages/ FC Free
Action Lab Entertainment, The most exciting new comic book publi
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