From Image Comics
Jan. 17, 2012
Preview: 'Prophet' #21
From TaylorVerse
March 15, 2012
GANGSTERS & GUNMOLLS
Airship 27 Productions dons its tough-guy mantle, as it premiers its newest pulp star in THE RUBY FILES
It was the 1930s and America was locked in the grip ofthe Great Depression. Gangsterscontro
Read more…From Image Comics
March 15, 2012
In 1916, twelve-year-old Jack Garron's boxcar-hopping adventure turns into a flight from a ravenous, razor-toothed man who haunts the
I bought Blackjacked and Pistol-Whipped: A Crime Does Not Pay Primer (a tpb collecting the best of the infamous 1950s crime-themed anthology comic book) a while ago, and though I had a pretty good idea of what to expect from CDNP Archives volume one.
Read more…I’m not going to say a whole lot about this collection because the foreword and introduction covers everything I would want to say quite well. Briefly, Ernie Bushmiller did not create the Nancy strip. (Well, he did and he didn’t.) Fritzi Ritz began i
Read more…I am just starting Neal Gabler's lengthy biography WALT DISNEY " , of Guess Who ? - Brrr !!!!!!!!!!! - .
I'm just 10-ish pages in .
This lets me: (1) express again the question of Why are the " traditional " Disney titles now absent from the shop
Read more…Just recently, Marvel has released the original Avengers Omnibus... a collection of the first 30 issues of the Earth's Mightest Heroes from 1963 through 1965 or so.
It occurs to me that there's another great Omnibus just waiting to be collected and r
Read more…“I have to say that if you are a reader that just wanted your favorite characters on tap forever, and never cared about the creators, then actually you’re probably not the kind of reader that I was looking for. I have a huge respect for my audience.
Read more…http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2012/03/12
If your city is like mine, the local newspaper isn't running the current Doonesbury strips this week. This is because the strip is talking about the Texas law which requires women seeking an abortion
Read more…Star Wars had a big impact on me in 1977 but, perhaps surprisingly, I didn’t read Marvel’s comic book series, originally by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin. When the new movies were released a couple of years ago, I loosened up a little and began to re
Read more…And away we go for comics that are supposed to be coming out in May.
1. I guess Becky Cloonan, was only on the first arc of the new Conan series. Hopefully, she is just taking a break on the new arc though.
2. I don't know why Dark Horse put Dragon
Read more…As Jeff of Earth-J and others are fond of saying, we live in a Golden Age of Reprints. We have Masterworks and Archives, Showcases and Essentials, Omnibuses and Absolute Editions, not to mentions your everday TPBs and hardcovers that collect storyli
Read more…Marvel Entertainment
March 8, 2012
SPIDER-MEN
This June - history will be made for the Marvel Universe.
SPIDER-MEN #1
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Art by SARA PICHELLI
Cover by JIM CHEUNG
ON SALE THIS JUNE!
From Image Comics
March 8, 2012
Berkeley, CA -- PETER PANZERFAUST, the Image Comics/Shadowline series that places the classic character Peter Pan in World War II-era F
Sheldon Moldoff died recently. There is an account of his career by Mark Evanier here and some remarks of appreciation by Jim Shooter here.
I'm sure many Batman stories I remember fondly were drawn by him, and his Alex Raymond-inspired Golden Age w
Read more…This will hopefully be an insightful part of our Grant Morrison Reading Project and a continuation of my own Bat-Journey. As I gather some references and take some notes before I delve deep into the Morrisonian version of the Greater DCU, I want to l
Read more…From Paul Castiglia
March 7, 2012
Comic creators enjoy fervent fan base,
award nomination for motley crew of internet monsters
(March, 2012) – What happens when an acclaimed indy comic art
Read more…From Image Comics
March 9, 2012
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San Diego – What happens when mystery, sorcery, different planes of existence, comic books, and trading card gaming co
