This will contain my initial reactions to the thirteen "lost" characters, based on the information provided in the New Golden Age #1. As is my custom, here are some irrelevant pictures to serve as spoiler space:
Thanos would live to regret interr
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Aquaman 80th Anniversary Special 100-Page Super Spectacular
DC Comics | $9.99
Story: Dan Jurgens, Geoff Johns, Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown, Stephanie Phillips, Michael Moreci, Marguerite Bennett, Dan Watters, Jeff Parker, Shawn Aldridge,
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When I was in elementary school I would buy every first issue I saw... not because I thought it would be "worth something someday" but because I wanted to be in on the beginning of something. (I had grand visions of Skull the Slayer #200, for exampl
Read more…Over on The Maze Agency thread the subject of Ellery Queen has arisen since he and his father Inspector Richard Queen guest starred in issue 9 of that series, "The English Channeler Mystery".
For those interested and not to tie up that thread, below
Read more…Inspired by today's read of Secret Society of Super Villains #3, in which we see Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang use incredible technology to steal some hamburgers, I'm staring up this new thread. Use this place to post pictures and sequences of
Read more…I have been in the mood to reread Alan Moore's Miracleman for some time now, but I decided to wait for the "omnibus" edition to be released so that I can read it in the format it deserves. In the meantime, I decided to reread Alan Moore's Captain Bri
Read more…Ever since the '80s, I've held two precepts regarding comic book collecting:
I thought this pair clever because the unstated third is therefore, "Don't buy what you don't enjoy." ("Obv
Read more…Let's catalog a list of Superhuman characters with pre-cognitive abilities, or the ability to accurately predict the future. No charlatans or scanners, just the real deal. Also, the character needs to use the power more than once in multiple stories
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Aquaman: King of Atlantis (Thursday, Oct. 21)
"Chapter Two: Primordeous"
It's Aquaman’s first day on the job as King of Atlantis and he’s got a LOT of catching up to do. Luckily, he has his two royal advisors to back him up — Vulko, th
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I read a lot of comic books back in the '80s, but I didn't read everything. One title I was aware of, had heard good things about but never tried, was The Maze Agency. Over the years, The Maze Agency had seven issues at Comico, #8-23 (plus an annua
Read more…When I first started reading comic books back in 1974, the average issue was 20 pages of story and art within a 32 page (counting covers) magazine for 20 cents.
In contrast, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with 64 pages for TEN CENTS.
The first m
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MIRACLEMAN #0 ONE-SHOT
Story: Neil Gaiman, Jason Aaron, Mike Carey, Ty Templeton, Peach Momoko & More! | Art: Mark Buckingham, Leinil Francis Yu, Ty Templeton, Peach Momoko & More! | Cover: Alan Davis | Variants: Peach Momoko, Terry Dodson
We're all aware that the X-men and the Doom Patrol debuted pretty closely to one another. Assuming sales data is available, which one sold better initially? Was either one considered a hit, sales-wise?
Read more…Given Wolverine's ability to regenerate his body, what good did grafting Adamantium to his bones do? I can understand doing the claws to make them sharper and stronger, but none of the rest of it makes sense to me. It didn't make him stronger and I d
Read more…Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft - Orphan of Agony Isle #3
Aaron Harvey, Ro Mediavilla (w) • Bayleigh Underwood, Kayla Felty (a)
When Miranda’s situation in
Read more…I started reading Swamp Thing from the very beginning... sort of. When I was a kid, I liked superhero comics and not much else (no western, no war, etc.). I also gravitated toward Marvel, so Swamp Thing had two strikes against it right out of the gat
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GRAPHIC NOVELS
Afterlift #1
Art: Jason Loo
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
136 pages / FC / $19.99 / $25.99
Collecting the Eisner Award-winning issues #1-5 — for the first time in print!
Written by
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