I was thinking about writing a column about the five Captain America stories you should read after seeing "Winter Soldier," like I did for Superman after "Man of Steel." But with Superman it was really easy to think of five great stories; in fact, I
Read more…If you have not seen the new documentary, PARTICLE FEVER, do so. It is a film which documents the building and launch of the Hadron Particle Collider in Switzerland. If you are familiar with DC Comic History and the role of Krona, you will understa
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Above is a cover for an Australian-market reprint album titled "" SUPER-VILLAINS ALBUM " from the 80s with a plenty dang spiffy! cover by Jim Aparo !
Was this cover published in America ? After al
Read more…Was it the Brain from the Doom Patrol comics?
Read more…Much of the dialog in Alan Moore’s latest, “The Roses of Berlin”, is in German. It’s a language that’s been the bane of my existence through two years of high school and four years of college during which I proved I have no facility for learning a fo
Read more…I was thinking about Reed Richards recently. When Fantastic Four began, Reed was a gutsy, he-man type who also happened to be extremely smart. These days he's a guy who's really smart, but it seems all the rest has been left by the wayside. If you
Read more…Since Fox Studios' rights to the X-Men for movies apparently requires them to have a new movie out every - three ? four ? - years or lose the movie rights , and I guess that solo X-men movies count against that (Perhaps with a requirement of " X-MEN
Read more…What a piece of crap. 18 of its 20 pages were done in "funny animal" style. (Okay, I guess that makes it 90% crap.) I wish I had flipped through it befor I bought it. Oh, well. at least there were two issues of Stray Bullets last week to make up for
Read more…There aren’t many comics I’ve sold or traded over the years that I haven’t come to regret, but G.I. Joe #1is one of them. I used to play with G.I. Joes when I was little… the real dolls, not the little plastic “action figures”… but by the time the Ma
Read more…Usually I think that the modern printing methods are a bit wasted on comics. It's nice to see a good blur effect and brighter colors but to me it's mostly been an excuse to ramp up the price. Tales of Honor is a space opera though and in this case th
Read more…This is my line started for all titles/companies-lines published by Archie Comics , including MLJ Comics , Radio Comics , Red Circle Comics , Stan Lee Comics...Including , most of all , <<"THOSE">> Riverdale teenagers...But since I did this with " Co
Read more…At my LCS I bought the TPB 2day (Cut down on the abbreviations , PDQ ? :-)) of the MARVEL MASTERWORKS , FANTASTIC FOUR , Vol. 10 , by Lee and Kirby (+ Jazzy Johnny) !
It contains the LOST ADVENTURE " directors' cut " of that Jack Kirby story , whic
Read more…The first time I encountered the name of Kitty Genovese was reading Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' origin of Rorschach in Watchmen. At the time, I did not know that she was a real person who was really murdered. But I soon discovered the true story. In
Sometimes it seems like I just get used to a character at DC and they kill him off. This issue featured three deaths, maybe more. It also featured Lex taunting Batman, a battle between Lex's motley assortment of villains and the crime syndicate and j
Read more…I sometimes wonder if any comic book world with superheroes has ever had a competent government. The world government of Earth 2 locked up the people who could helped it prepare for this latest crisis and harassed and tried to lock up others and it's
Read more…I have seven boxes of old comics that I need to get rid of. They're mostly from the last 15 - 20 years, and mostly from the Big Two. There's nothing wrong with them, but I'm not likely to read them again and they're taking up space, space that I rea
Read more…I'm curious, was this a knock against the X-men?
Some of you might be interested to know that there is a campaign to get some small, belated recognition for Bill Finger for his outstanding work on Batman, via a Google Doodle in his honour on the 100th anniversary of his date of birth 08 Feb 2014.
Read more…Today, from In Stock Trades, I received a box containing Doug Moench and Kelley Jones's Batman. This was like a huge dream come true for me. Next thing they'll tell me, they will publish Batman: Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1.
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