Though I wrote for the zine somewhat, I'm not fishing for recognition. But I'm curious if the various brouhahas that involved the magazine ever impacted on your comics reading in any way.
Read more…Volume two ships today so I thought I'd move my look at volume one into a thread dedicated to discussing all three volumes.
VOLUME ONE: "THE END OF ERAS":
This collection is divided into six parts: 1) Heroes, 2) Mysteries, 3) The Last Battles, 4) Ot
Read more…I know we don't usually get into politics here, but I felt this story was sufficiently comics-related.
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GENRE TV
Next, season 1 premiere, "FILE #1" (Fox, Oct. 6)
Swamp Thing, broadcast premiere (CW, Oct. 6)
Archer, "Best Friends" (FX, Oct. 7)
Doctor Who, special, "Faceless Ones" (BBC America, Oct. 8)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, s
Read more…In today's Stargirl comic, Oliver tells Emiko that he and Roy were the Golden Age Green Arrow and Speedy that were in the original Seven Soldiers of Victory.
Apparently, early in their careers, one of the Clock King's time traps blew up and Ollie and
Once again, there is speculation that DC and Marvel could end up under the same corporate "roof", growing out of the events we're discussing here.
I have no idea how probable any of this is. My suspicion is "not very", but what do I know?
Setti
Read more…Manga creator Shotaro Ishinomori created a television series called Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (Secret Squadron FiveRangers), which was the first of the Super Sentai series and which, like Kamen Rider (another Ishinomori creation) and Ultraman, has prod
Read more…Today is Thursday, so I'm sitting around reading the new comics I bought on Wednesday. Usually I post a line or two to "What Comics Have You Read Today?"; sometimes I devote an entire post to a single comic; other times I break the series off into a
Read more…Has anyone here framed their comics for display? It is something I've been wanting to do for awhile, but when I looked they aren't cheap. You can find them on Amazon from $6/ea (when you buy a 5 pack) on up. So I started looking online for a cheap DI
Read more…GENRE TV
His Dark Materials, season 2 finale, "Æsahættr" (HBO, Dec. 28)
The Expanse, "Down and Out" (Amazon Prime, Dec. 30)
Vikings, second half season 6, series finale (Amazon Prime, Dec. 30)
Star Trek: Discovery, "The Good of the People" (CBS All A
Read more…Story Apparently no official confirmation on this, but if it's true, it doesn't sound good.
Read more…GENRE TV
Next, "File #6" (Fox, Nov. 10)
Star Trek: Discovery, "Die Trying" (CBS All Access, Nov. 12)
The Mandalorian, "Chapter 11" (Disney+, Nov. 13)
Fargo, "East/West" (FX, Nov. 15)
Fear the Walking Dead, "Bury Her Next to Jasper's Leg" (AMC, Nov. 1
Read more…From Cracked: "4 Reasons Anyone Who Says 'Superman Is a Boring Superhero' Is Full of It"
It begins:
Cracked wrote:
Read more…A common complaint about Superman is that he's just too damn powerful, which is kind of like saying that the Grand Canyon is too damn g
This post will be updated.
GENRE TV
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Temporal Edict" (CBS All Access, Aug. 20)
Lucifer, Season 5 (Netflix, Aug. 21)
Wynonna Earp, "Holy War Part One" (Syfy, Aug. 23)
NOS4A2, "Bats" (AMC, Aug. 23)
Lovecraft Country, "Whitey's
Read more…It was Monday night, and since I know how to party, I was reading Titans #47 from 2009. This issue features Tempest, and he is going on and on about how he was shunned, hated, and also cast ouy by the other Atlanteans because he has purple eyes. Purp
Read more…I've recently stumbled into buying Image's " old school Image " title, THE SAVAGE DRAGON, by Erik K. Larsen. I bought #252 which turned into #253 and now I guess I'll make it for keeps with #254, which I guess is not out yet. I have had extremely lit
Read more…GENRE TV
His Dark Materials, "The Scholar" (HBO, Dec. 14)
The Expanse, season 5 premiere, "Exodus" (Amazon Prime, Dec. 16)
The Expanse, "Churn" (Amazon Prime, Dec. 16)
The Expanse, "Mother" (Amazon Prime, Dec. 16)
Star Trek: Discovery, "Terra Firma
Read more…ISSUE #1:
The series opens in 1944, a few weeks prior to the D-Day Invasion. the Howlers are introduced in a double-page spread: Sgt. Fury (the leader of the squad), Cpl. "Dum-Dum" Dugan (former circus strangman), "Rebel" Ralston (ex-jockey), "Junio
Read more…I have often identified the Incredible Hulk as "my first favorite character" but I don't think I've ever mentioned that Captain America is "my second favorite character" (in sequence, not in rank). I think I probably started collecting Captain Americ
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