I was skimming the channels yesterday and landed on a My Little Pony 90 minute special, where one of the pony's goes through a magic mirror and ends up a human girl. There were some fun bits because she is used to grabbing things with her mouth, n
Read more…I was just watching an episode of "Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends," which you can watch right here or in the window below.
In it, they suggest that Spider-Man was a really, really popular wrestler/entertainer. So popular that he was attracting
Pre-Marvel super-heroes, Atlas had all those gioant monsters with names that terrified the world!!!!
But every once in a while, there would be a name that was destined to bring a "Are you kidding? That's pitiful." And you know the monster walked a
Read more…Has anyone been reading this? I read issues 1 and 2 yesterday. They were funny. I had worried that they wouldn't be, because Christopher Priest, the original writer, is off the title. But James Asmus (who writes Gambit, but I don't read that...) does
Read more…Anybody going to Dragon Con this year? Has anyone been before?
My parents now live in Atlanta. I'll be visiting them the same weekend as Dragon Con and thought about checking it out. Just seeing if anyone would recommend it.
Read more…When I glanced through this at the store, I was a little reluctant to buy it.
In general, I think that people give Frank Miller too much credit for his RoboCop chops. Sure, he's the storyman for RoboCop 2, but he's also gave us RoboCop 3. Yeah, I kn
Read more…Comic Book Resources has the list of Top 10 superhero role-playing games, as compiled by columnist Timothy Callahan.
Here are his picks for Numbers 10 to 6: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=47270
And here are the selections for Numb
Read more…I spotted the Previews description and the magazine is going to have final columns and comments from Maggie Thompson. Thought I'd mention this in case anyone missed it.
Read more…OK, bear with me here, a point is coming. :) I finally got around to watching The Amazing Race Canada tonight and I was just flabergasted that of 9 teams chosen to compete, 5 were from Ontario and there wasn't a single team chosen from the 4 Atlanti
Read more…Her latest introduction seems a little over the top to me, but I haven't read too much and mostly know her from the Crisis on Two Worlds animated movie. But I'd say her new lasso definitely looks more dangerous than Diana's ever did.
Read more…...Okay , what about:
the 5 (if GCD is absolutely correct) Spider-man titles - series and one-shots - issued during this century with the title of SPIDER-MAN FAMILY (or some close variant of that) (plus a TPB bearing that title , listed but non-pic
Read more…Help, I can't find the place where we used to post requests for help to locate specific issues or collections...not that it ever got much traffic.
I need a little help here, and don't know where to post this.
I bought the first Atlas Masterworks vol
Read more…Last week, my wife to be Tracy and I attended Fan Expo 2013. This was my first big convention, and for Tracy, a lot of firsts - first time flying, first visit to Toronto, first time on a subway car, etc. We arrived Tuesday night, spent all day Wedn
Read more…WatchMojo does a lot of these, and they are great "Cliff's Notes" versions of a variety of superhero and supervillian origins.
This one covers the birth and confusion over the identity of the Hobgoblin.http://youtu.be/YCnW5jpSXxM
And here's one for
Read more…The Toronto Star is reporting that next spring, Justice League America will be renamed Justice League Canada, as the team restructures and relocates. Jeff Lemire,
a Toronto native, will continue to write it, and it will be drawn by Mike McKone.
Th
Read more…http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany
According to the article linked above, a contemporary of the Grimm Brothers, was a dedicated folklore researcher who collected 500 unique fairy tales on his own,
Forget Free Comic Book Day, forget Christmas and Boxing Day, a new holiday is fast approaching that will eclipse such laughable newcomers as Talk Like A Pirate Day ... it's right around the corner ... it's ...
Now you may be wondering a few things ..
Thought I'd go ahead and start a thread for Marvel's newest event Infinity. I have the first issue but haven't read it yet. I did read the FCBD issue which was pretty good, though it didn't spotlight any of the popular characters for long.
This one
Read more…Knights of the Dinner Table reached 200 this month. It's gone from a small press humor title about a group of gamers to a title with a fully involved and complex group of characters and numerous back up features. It's always good to see that.
Read more…Not sure where this documentary comes from, maybe a DVD extra, but it's pretty interesting. Includes some discussion on Jack Kirby and Alex Toth's work in designing the characters.
Thundarr was one of the best cartoon shows from the Saturday mor
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