My recent re-reading of Martin Pasko's Swamp Thing (plus the comment below) put me in the mood to re-read the first few issues of one of the few examples of his other work I am familiar with.
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Alice in Leatherland #1
Black Mask Studios | $3.99
Writer: Iolanda Zanfardino | Art/Cover: Elisa Romboli
I've looked up whatever Google could find on this book, since Black Mask doesn't send me DRCs. It's called an LGBTQIA+ rom
Read more…I have long felt that any good online discussion of a comic book series requires at least two active participants... not just two people posting, but two actually reading along... one to provide "play-by-play" and the other "color commentary." Tracy
Read more…The following is based on my current (mis?)understanding of what's going on with super-hero comics, movies and TV shows.
1)It is my understanding that Marvel and DC are currently making shedloads more money from movies and TV shows based on their su
Read more…Over the years as Superman's mythos has expanded, we've been given relatively plausible explanations for his superhuman abilities(I'm not going to say it makes scientific sense for a difference in solar radiation to enhance his physical abilities but
Read more…My earliest memory of Tarzan (I think) is watching the movie Tarzan's Three Challenges on television. (This would have been circa 1969.) By the time I read my first Tarzan comic book, I was already familiar with the Ron Ely television show as well as
Read more…So, DC's next big event is going to be called Dark Crisis. Dunno if I'm gonna follow this one or not. I'm kinda Crisis'd out.
Read more…Spider-Man is Marvel's #1 Super-Hero. There is no doubt about that, despite the popularity of the Hulk, Wolverine and other heroes featured in today's films. But when did it actually happen?
Marvel had been promoting Fantastic Four as "The World's Gr
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DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES #11 (OF 12)
DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES VOL 2 HC
EAT THE RICH #3 (OF 5)
JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY OGN
MAW #2 (OF 5)
ORIGINS TPB
DARK HORSE COMICS
ART OF FAR CRY 6 HC
COMPLETE AMERICAN GODS HC
CRITICAL ROLE: TALES OF EXANDRIA #1 (OF
Read more…"Truth, Justice and the American Way" is being officially replaced by "Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow", and I'm liking it.
Superman's motto gets a modern update: 'Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow' - CNN
Read more…Story Well, we knew it was coming, but it's still incredibly sad. One of my all-time favorites, and gone so young, too.
Nexus: the Newspaper Strips, Vol. 1 - "The Coming of Gourmando
I haven't read this yet. But I've got so much to say about it that I wanted to get the other stuff off my chest first. In 2016, Baron & Rude launched a HUGE (think Marvel "MONSTER"-size)
Read more…If Jaime Hernandez agreed to do a mini series for Marvel and was allowed to do anything he wanted, what character/plot would you want to see him work on? No wrong answers.
Read more…Canto: Tales of the Unnamed World #2—Cover A: Drew Zucker
David M. Booher (w) • Drew Zucker, Shawn Daley (a) • Drew Zucker (c)
Canto, his fellow knights, and their trusty Malorex grow fretful as the mysterious and foreboding Bard continues to detain
Read more…DON'T MISS:
Aquaman: King of Atlantis
"Chapter One: Dead Sea"
The three-part animated miniseries event begins with 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
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The Butchery HC
Fantagraphics | $19.99
Story/Art: Bastien Vives
This poetic graphic novel explores the emotional bloodbath of a romance gone awry.
A young man and woman fall for each other and all is sweetness and light. But when their rel
Read more…GENRE TV OF NOTE
The Expanse, "Oyedeng" (Amazon Prime, Jan. 13)
The Stand, "Suspicious Minds" (CBS All Access, Jan. 14)
WandaVision, season 1 premiere, "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience" (Disney+, Jan. 15)
WandaVision, "Don't Touch That Dial" (Di
Read more…The Complete Collection of Charles Biro's Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series:
From their inception in 1935, comic books - starring Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel - had been primarily written for and aimed at adolescents. There were always the occasio
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ANGEL #1
Script: Christopher Cantwell | Art: Daniel Bayliss | Cover: Nimit Malavia | $4.99
BOOM! Studios reveals a first look at ANGEL #1, the premiere issue of a brand new eight-issue comic book series. Producer and director of AMC’s
Read more…Like many old-schoolers, I lost my connection to the Marvel Universe soon after Joe Quesada and Bill Jemas took over. So I decided to create a new comic book company that gives talented folks like Roger Stern, Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema a superhero
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