I have hopes for this based on Courtney Crumrin. The art is good and the fish out of water part is familiar territory for Naifeh's.
Plus I like the idea of a girl with a pet elephant :)
To start there are five kingdoms in the lowlands and a kingdom
Though the names are the same they really are working hard to make the characters different. I think there is a bit more room for death and destruction on this alternate Earth, permanent and lasting I mean, not blow up something and have it back in s
Read more…I'm not a parent, but it strikes me that this one of those moments that produce both pride and worry. http://www.gocomics.com/stonesoup/#.Uzg2PN3GHaw
Read more…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrying_Irving I only upon the other day ran into the comics-oriented and -inspired phrase " marrying Irving " .
I think it's a good one !!!!!!!!!!!
I do recall that we ,here at CC's , discussed the eventual developmen
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In a press release touting four second printings this week, Marvel said "These red-hot titles join over 30 titles from the massively popular All-New Marvel NOW! initiative to return for second printings!"
Now, honestly, does an
Read more…I know there was Johnny Thunder and in the tv show Isis, but are there other characters who had to say a word to transform?
Read more…Marvel keeps adding to this, and it's adding up to quite a lot. So I thought I'd post it for you guys to comment.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomes you to The Art of Level 7
Top Artists Deliver Unique Vision of Marvel’s First Live-Action TV S
Read more…It can be fun. Sara in the KODT series is usually portrayed as the level headed female of the all male group. While the other three members of the group use the game to hack and slash and have fun with greed even if they do play lawful good character
Read more…This graphic novel tells the history of “The Turk,” the mechanical chess player of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has been serialized online over the course of six years, and has finally been collected in printed form. The story itself is true, but
Read more…When a hero has been around for 50 years, there are bound to be various interpretations. When I started reading Daredevil in the late 70s / early 80s, Frank Miller was first the artist and later the writer and artist on the title. He put a stamp o
Read more…I was watching the Kirk Allen Superman serial Superman versus the Atom Man when I realized I couldn't recall if there was ever a Lex Luthor in the 1952 tv series. Was there?
Read more…Say this today, it was on the ME tv channel and they've been running Dragnet. I dvr it sometimes if there is an episode I sort of remember from when I was a kid. I remember this one for some reason and this was long before I knew what comic books or
Read more…I was going through the dvr yesterday and I spotted the episode of Avengers Earth's Mightiest cartoon where the Enchantress is going after Zemo and looses, then gets dragged into some sort of hell to serve Surtur (?). That reminded me that I hear
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It's a week chock-full of first issues, and for a change they're not all Marvels!
Dyamite has an exceptional week, with the first issues of Solar: Man of the Atom and Captain Action Cat: The Timestream Catastrophe, and the 100t
Read more…Disney now owns both Star wars and Marvel. It's fun to think that, after all the snide disrespect hurled at it over the years, the Marvel Star Wars series would be the most logical thing for them to keep in continuity.
Read more…OK, just read issue #0. It involves the current iteration of Nova, who is apparently a kid named Sam Alexander, whose father was an old drunk who claimed to have been an intergalactic space hero, and who eventually disappeared. In time, the son disc
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Every week Marvel hogs the Comments section with a flood of number ones, and this week is no different. But at least we get to start with a number one from another publisher: Dynamite. Because Flash Gordon #1 comes out this wee
Read more…One of my favorite books growing up in the 70s was The Defenders with their seemingly mismatched yet powerful though hardly stable roster. But it was clear that they won because of the leadership and mystic prowess of DOCTOR STRANGE and the sheer pow
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Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:
START ME UP
Two big summer stories launch this week with single issues.
The biggest is Original Sin #0 (Marvel, $3.99), which is numbered accurately -- it isn't the firs
Read more…Usually publishers have to jump through a number of hoops to get signed to Diamond. That these guys did it so fast tells me Diamond is bending over backwards. That's just speculation, though.
Anyway, I post this as a public service, in case any Legio
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