I was going over some old notes about supervillains and I remembered something I didn't have time to ask way back when. How many gadgets have supervillains used that looked like they had great potential but were never used more than once. In Ms. Marv
Read more…I acquired the first half (I believe) of the last issue of Archie's LIFE WITH ARCHIE to-day , the comic book-sized version of (I believe) the first half of the story , with the " mid-Twentieth Century Life Magazine " cover .
I don't think I've even
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100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- X-MEN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of books depicting various Marvel heroes as they might exist in 2061. With a cover depicting Cyclops marrying Emma Frost, one has to wonder if both of them have a se
Read more…If you like “Jim Starlin’s “cosmic” work, you’ll like this. If you don’t, you won’t.
(I wrote this up as a lengthier review but I wasn’t happy with it so I decided to do it as a “Quick Hit.”)
Read more…I've only got a few of the issues and I just scanned in 225, 1984, "Hellrazor is comming" and I wondered once she was on the team did they face more magical threats than scientific/supervillain/alien style threats?
Read more…I'm still scanning in issues and I'm trying to get all the events or related tie-in issues, so I picked up Green Lantern at a comic book show. I can see why Harbinger didn't get Hal, he doesn't come off very well in this issue and even the Guardian w
Read more…I've read that back in the 1940's Superman sold a million copies a month.
What if a single series started selling like that now? Never mind why. To be extremely silly, we'll say that a wizard secretly compels people to start buying copies of a pa
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NOTE TO CAPTAIN COMICS: If you’re reading this, I’d really like to hear your opinion.
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Good As Lily
ClarkKent_DC starts the discussion June 22 June 30
Hello, friends! After an unexpected delay, I'm ready to begin the discussion on Good As Lily. This is a young adult graphic novel published by DC in 2007 under its
Read more…Who got killed ? (Spoilers) I saw a Bleeding Cool column that some character was being killed " in a really final way ~ even if they do come back to life , it will be like never before " , etcetera , at least I think 'twas BC .
The writer made a bi
Read more…I’m enjoy this this as much as any (and more than most) of “The New 52” but it suffers from rotating artists syndrome: three artists in three months: Kieth Giffen, Tom Grummett, Jim Starlin. All of them are fine artists and any of them would be good
Read more…I looked all over for a thread dedicated to this title, but couldn't find one.
I read issues #2-5 this morning. I really like this. I'm not sure why I like this one, because my cranky old man ways normally hate stories about teenagers. I had read iss
Read more…Though I still miss her old solo series of just a short time ago I have to admit that this title has given me one of the best Zatanna's I've ever seen. Resourceful, strong and confident. Powerful enough to be leader but not so much that she overshado
Read more…Cause the current strip strongly hints that he has now in his search for Annie.
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100th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL – FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (Marvel Comics, $3.99): This is the first in a series of comics that will publish one per week in July, looking at the Marvel Universe of 2061 -- 100 years after Fantastic Four #1 launched that
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Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art and cover by CHRIS SPROUSE and KARL STORY
1:10 B&W Variant cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
1:25 Variant cover by FRAZER IRVING
1:50 Variant cover b
Read more…"Okay, I'll bite. Did Paladin even have a first name? Or a last name for that matter?
"They did an origin episode in the last season of the series titled 'Genesis', I believe, where he told his origin to a young man someone had sent to kill Paladi
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JUSTICE MACHINE: OBJECT OF POWER
Pages: 96
Writer: Mark Ellis
Artist: David Enebral & Ivan Barriga.
Digital Price: $9.99
Print Price: $17.99
The gears of justice roll on in a new graphic novel by best-selling author
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THE ADVENTURES OF APOCALYPSE AL VOL 1 (TPB, Image Comics, $9.99): Collects the four-issue miniseries introducing Allison Carter (the Apocalypse Al of the title), who is a paranormal investigator from a long line of paranormal investigators.
Read more…I found out yesterday that the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY film will featutre , in a (one of the ???) post-credit sequences, and appearance by Howard the Duck !!!!!
I had been wondering about that ol' quacker , I thinkmaybe wondering whether Rocket Rac
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