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It looks like 2014 is beginning in earnest this week. We've got three All-New Marvel NOW! re-launches, the beginning of zero issues at Valiant, the return of the Gold Key heroes and, of course, a couple of hundred other titles to talk about.
Read more…Per The Beat: DC to spend $250,000 on Vertigo marketing
I think is noteworthy, in that comic book publishers very rarely advertise their books outside comic book specific avenues. Really noteworthy, because it is for the Vertigo imprint which isn't
Read more…I've heard of Robot Chicken but I've never seen it, anyone know if Sunday's show will be any good?
Read more…Hey folks! Some of you may have (or soon will) receive an invite from me to "like" the page for the Thundercast - The Thunder Agents Podcast. This is a new podcast where Bill Zanowitz (one of the Comic Book Bears) and I will be going issue by issue t
Read more…If you have a book you'd like to start a discussion on, just post a message in this thread and we'll see about getting you scheduled in.
Any genre of TPB or GN will work, although we have been trying to spread things out for variety's sake. If th
Read more…The above is a scan of the program of the first Dallas Fantasy Fair (DFF) that was held in 1982. The man who ran the show, Larry Lankford, I found out last week passed away on Christmas.
Unbelievably he was only 53 at his time of passing. Which meant
Read more…Has anyone seen this? It's supposed to be released in May but it looks like some people have already seen it.
Read more…The original Baltar anyway and the story gives a nice rundown on it. It takes place after they strand Baltar on a planet. I've often wondered about Baltar's motivations and the inconsistencies between the Baltar who's watching a city burn and orderin
Read more…I picked up a bunch of comics at the Asbury Park Comicon today, including a handful of the Charlton kung-fu series Yang. When I was looking on the GCD to see how long the series ran, I discovered something interesting. The original 1973 series ran 13
Read more…While its long-term survival was a long shot, I'm really sorry to see this one go. I don't think it necessarily got off on the right foot, both with its marketing (pitting it against the Green Team) and an opening issue the kept a lot of readers at a
Read more…I picked up My Little Pony today and was struck, as I was struck a while back by Adventure Time, on how much more flexible an all ages comic can be. Adventure Time has gone through noir style detective stories, horror stories and alternate romance
Read more…It's this Saturday and Sunday, in Asbury Park, NJ! Anyone going? I'll be there on Saturday.
The panel highlight for me will be an 11 a.m. discussion on lettering between Todd Klein and John Workman. I've never been to a lettering panel in all my yea
Read more…The discussion about problems with superhero movies got me to thinking about the essence of some comic book characters. I would like to get as many comments as possible on what exactly comprises the definitive version of Green Lantern. Who is the re
Read more…He wrote a lot more than I realized and they've got some good tributes to him, as well as a run down of his career. They also have a feature on pulps, comics and others. I'm not sure if this is a new format but it's a good issue.
Read more…Welcome to another edition of the world-famous* Captain Comics Comics Guide! It's another big week, as manga has made a comeback and a number of publishers are shipping first issues. The bad news: There's something amiss with Archie. But we'll get to
Read more…Welcome back, Legionnaires, for another startling Comics Guide! This one is chock-full of not only a lot of new and interesting books (see "The Captain's Picks"), but an unusually large number of previews -- especially Image, Marvel and Valiant. This
Read more…So I buy 5 different Avengers issues of what I thought were 5 different title down at the ol' LCS , moved in part by an employee there's expression of enthusiasm for Marvel today , saying that Marvel's gotten back to good storytelling or similar . Tw
Read more…I wish I hadn't seen this, and really wish they weren't doing this.
From CNN: "Farewell, Archie: Beloved Comic Book Character to Die"
Read more…I don't know in which thread I wondered about this, but a while back, I wondered what the first canceled New 52 title to be relaunched with a new number 1 would be. Hawkman seemed like a decent contender; OMAC, on the other hand, was a real long shot
Read more…I wanted to share this interesting sighting of Silver Age comics. The Naked City was a TV show that ran from 1959-1963. Season 4, episode 1, original airdate 9-19-62, episode title "Hold For Gloria Christmas", had the following comics connection. At
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