Story Seems loke 2022 has been a rough year for comics creators.
Read more…There are a few more Archies in October than usual, thanks to the horror one-shots. But it always depresses me how few comics Archie actually publishes monthly in the 21st century. Still, they have gotten good at this horror bit, haven't they?
On Sa
Read more…This topic is the last in a series (linked below) and likely my last post of the year. It has taken me a week to post the series, but I've been thinking about it for much longer than that. What was holding me back was the thought of posting my ration
Read more…Think back to when you were 12 years old.
You were likely in 6th grade at school.
There's a good chance you were entering puberty as well, and it was both exciting and scary at the same time.
Presuming you were a comics fan, your tastes probably ran
Read more…Kominsky-Crumb was an important part of the underground comix movement and co-creator of Drawn Together. She was also the wife of underground cartoonist R. Crumb.
This is the fourth thread in a series which includes...
Up until now, the
Read more…The decade of the 1970s began a period of transition. Total annual sales figures can no longer be used to help determine when an "Age" might begin or end. Once sales fell to around 3 million in 1970, that's where they stayed for the entire decade. I'
Read more…When I was a lad, common knowledge held that the so-called "Silver Age" was ushered in by Showcase #4 in 1956. (The same "common knowledge" had it that the Bronze Age began in 1970 with the release of Conan #1, but we'll get to that soon enough.) But
Read more…I have been working on a "Grand Unified Theory of Comic Book Ages" (one that everyone can agree on - Ha!) for some time now, but I'm having trouble getting started. I think I might be able to break up the logjam, however, if I divide it into more ma
Read more…BOOM! STUDIOS
Dark Blood #1 (of 6)
FCBD 2021 Enter the Slaughter
FCBD 2021 Just Beyond Monstrosity #1
Firefly Brand New Verse #5 (of 6)
Many Deaths of Laila Starr #4 (of 5)
Once & Future Vol 3 TPB
Power Rangers #9
Proctor Valley Road #5 (of 5)
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Bermuda #1 (of 4)
IDW | $4.99
Writer: John Layman | Art/Cover: Nick Bradshaw | Variant: Nick Bradshaw | Variant: Arthur Adams.
There's a region in the Atlantic Ocean where planes disappear, ships are lost, and souls go missing ... never to
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First, full disclosure: I was an avid fan of these dolls when I was a little boy. Second, these were dolls, not the tiny bits of plastic the Gen-Xers would come to call "action figures" a decade later. My across-the-street neighbor (Scotty) had one
Read more…When Superman is exposed to green kryptonite, I know he's incapacitated. Would that prevent him from signaling for help by utilizing his heat vision, superbreath, super ventriloquism, etc.?
Just something I was thinking about recently.
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Read more…It looks like Marvel is putting the best face on it, but the license owners -- Heroic Signatures -- is going to launch its own publishing arm in cooperation with an as-yet-unnamed publishe
Read more…I bought MMW Hulk v15 just today and decided to make a discussion of it going forward. To get us started, here is what I posted about v14 to the "What Comics Have you read today?" discussion back in September of last year.
My first issue of Incredib
Read more…Thought this might be of interest to podcast-listeners, a group of which I am not a part.
MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT AND SIRIUSXM TO PREMIERE FIRST ORIGINAL SCRIPTED PODCAST SERIES, ‘MARVEL’S WASTELANDERS: OLD MAN STAR-LORD’ ON JUNE 1
First two episodes d
Story I wonder what - if any- effect this will have on movies and TV shows based on DC Comics.
Read more…The Big Stuff
Fantastic Four: Life Story #1 (of 6)
Marvel Comics | 40 pages | Teen | $4.99
Writer: Mark Russell | Art: Sean Izaakse | Colors: Nolan Woodward | Cover: Daniel Acuña | Variant: Brett Booth | Variant: Marcos Martin | Variant: Paolo Rivera
Read more…IN THIS POST:
DC's New Golden Age
The Ones #1
Edge of Spider-Verse #4
Bad Idea
Ranger Stranger #1
DC returns to '90s
Kroma #1
Hell to Pay #1
Two Graves #1
Creepshow #3
The New Golden Age from DC Starts This November
Spinning out of the Conclusion o
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