Did you ever think about what life must be like for Bruce Banner? Imagine and endless stream of "rude awakenings"... on a missile headed toward Manhattan... in the hold of a sinking ship filling with water... on a sacrificial alter with a knife raise
Read more…TALES TO ASTONISH #90-91:
Emil Blonsky has led a tragic and convoluted live every since the spy mission he undertook in the Spring of 1967 to steal secrets from General Ross's missile base to sell behind the "Bamboo Curtain." First he tried three se
Read more…Elsewhere, some of us were talking about the Silver Samurai, which led me to think of the time he fought John Belushi, which led me to think that the Peter Parker of 2023 cannot be the same Peter Parker that met the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players
Read more…Our recent discussions of Supergirl have made me want to re-read these. i'm not as good at this sort of thing as Jeff is, but I'll try my best.
We start with Volume One:
The cover art isn't bad, but I have to say that Miller isn't who i would pick
Read more…When I was heavily ordering books going through the monthly Previews, my brother admonished me one day and said that I can't buy EVERYTHING!
I retorted that he had no idea what EVERYTHING meant!
I started reading comics in the winter of 1972/73 and
Read more…These are my best guesses. There are some that I think are pretty much inarguable There's a number of the others that I'm uncertain about, myself, though.
(Side Note: When I make these kinds of lists, I really miss Randy. He always had something
Read more…MARVEL COMICS: AAPI HERITAGE COVERS IN MAY
This May, Marvel Comics is proud to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with variant covers highlighting some of its most pro
Read more…A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY
A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY OMEGA #1
KIERON GILLEN (W) • GUIU VILANOVA (A) • COVER BY PASQUAL FERRY • Variant Cover by PEACH MOMOKO • Variant cover by ALAN DAVIS • VARIANT COVER BY ALEXANDER LOZANO
THE FALLOUT OF JUDGMENT DAY IS FELT!
A
Read more…Bets as to how long this will last?
Read more…Some time back (I can't find the thread) some of us discussed the Twomorrows publication Our Artists at War, which is a comprehensive (AFAIK) collection of commentary on the war comics of the 60s and 70s. One of the highlights of this genre was the
Read more…Luke Blanchard brought up some interesting ideas in the "Silver Age Superman" thread, and I didn't want to thread-jack it. So I'm following up on his ideas in this thread.
Luke said:
DC's line was shaken up coming into the 1960s in multiple ways. It
Read more…This could be interesting. I wonder how the characters will be adapted.
Read more…We were just discussing Lily Renee over in the Comics You Have Read Lately thread a few weeks ago. I did not know then that she was still alive! But she was, and now she's not.
IN THIS POST
AVENGERS: 1,000,000 B.C. #1
JASON AARON (W) • KEV WALKER (A) • Cover by ED McGUINNESS
VARIANT COVER BY ALEX HORLEY
PREHISTORIC HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY RYAN STEGMAN
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
THE SECRET ORIGIN OF THOR – REVEALED!
They are the defe
Read more…This topic has come up, again, on a recent discussion. We have some current members who weren't around when this topic was originally posted on the old board, so I thought I'd "bump it up" as it were.
Yesterday you [addressing Captain Comics] sugges
Read more…Story What's to say? Another of the Great Ones of my youth, the invertor of the MAD Fold-In, has died.
Read more…Good afternoon, culture vultures! Here's an overview of the week to come in comics and related pop culture. It's a little late — I usually post on Sunday — but as you can see, we're trying something new.
For the record, in the outside world the Johns
Read more…Mastermind is a British TV quiz show where members of the public are subjected to two rounds of questions against the clock. The first round is one and a half minutes long on a specialist subject of their choice. The second, general knowledge round
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