Okay, I hate to be the one to do this, but I just read this TPB this morning and I want to talk about it. I wasn't going to ever read it, but I found it at Half Price Books, so I grabbed it and I thought it was a really great story! A few observation
Read more…I invite everyone to go to the Kevin Keller review in the blog area to read genuine hate mail! It's the first, and I imagine the last, I'll get on that review (it's been a couple of weeks). Still, I'm as proud as I can be. I'm important enough for co
Read more…What do you think of ratings , as they are applied now to comic books , especially now that the Code is officially 100% kaputo and it seems like many companies have adopted the same system/set'o'lettes that Marvel uses ?????
For reference , what is
Read more…I had discussed something similar back in the day on the CBG forum but something brought the idea back to mind. I was just looking over Essential Avengers vol. 4 and there is the story originally presented in Avengers # 87, "Look Homeward, Avenger !"
Read more…Prepare yourself for a Grandpa Simpson good old fashion tirade ;)
I am going to make a provocative statement. I enjoy the work of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee but I have had my fill. Same goes for the work of Gardner Fox, Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegal, Bob
Read more…While going through my Marvel Team-Ups, I recalled how excited I was as a kid that #17 (Ja'74) featured Reed Richards, Mister Fantastic as the co-star. I never saw him guest star by himself in another comic. He was always with the Fantastic Four. And
Read more…The recent mention of TCJ in another line gives me excuse to mention it .
TCJ started as a free adzine named THE NOSTALGIA JOURNAL , which IIRC I had a ( Unsolicited ? ) subscription to in 1977 when Gary Groth bought it and turned it into THE COMIC
Read more…When the relaunch was announced, I knew there would books I knew I'd be picking up, no matter what -- the Legion books and Flash are always sure sales for me. And Jonah Hex has become a very steady favorite.
But there are some where my interest in th
FOREVER PEOPLE #1 / Mar’71 – “IN SEARCH OF A DREAM!”
When Jack Kirby went to DC in late 1971, the first thing he did were the first issues of FOREVER PEOPLE, NEW GODS, and MISTER MIRACLE. However, in order to get a quicker return on their “investme
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At least that carried their own title , STARTING during the SA , for over 25 issues , into ( by cover date anyway ) Gerald Ford's presidency...
Read more…The story behind this story is as interesting as the story itself. Back when Kurt Busiek and Erik Larsen were doing The Defenders, editor Tom Breevoort commissioned a fill-in from Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley. Nicieza wrote the plot and Mark Bagley
Read more…I just got an Android phone (an HTC Inspire 4G from AT&T). There's a Comixology app plus lots of free comics to download, so I had to try it out. I came into it with serious doubts about reading comics on a 4.3 inch screen, but it actually works surp
Read more…http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/23/robin-damian-wayne-letters-dick-grayson-nightwing/
This is how fan fiction should be done.
During the 60s and 70s, Amazing Spider-Man featured the Wall-Crawler meeting a lot of super-heroes from the early days of the Fantastic Four and especially the Human Torch, the Hulk and Daredevil to Romita era Iceman, Quicksilver, Ka-Zar, Medusa and
Read more…It's an old question, but a good summer one. You're trapped on an island...you have food, water, and shelter. A seagull flies over once a month and drops five comics...which five comic series do you hope fall from the sky?
For me:
Amazing Spide
Read more…I went to see the movie X-Men: First Class last week, and as with the Wolverine movie a couple of years ago, it put me in the mood to read some X-Men comics. Luckily, “Lifedeath” (a collection of X-Men stories by Barry Windsor-Smith) shipped last Wed
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With the upcoming changes to the DCnU, it seems to me that the "underwear-on-the-outside" tradition of costuming is all but gone. Will there be any contemporary costumes that you can think of that still retain this look at either DC or Marvel?
When a two-volume edition of “The Generations Saga” was solicited a few months ago, the first thing I did was to begin re-reading the entire Infinity, Inc. series in order. Back in the ‘80s, I started reading right around the time of Crisis on Infini
Read more…My comics shop got shorted this month on its Life With Archie order, so I got it only last week. I'm still enjoying it, although the "Archie Marries Betty" half is at the moment less interesting than the "Archie Marries Veronica" part.
In "Archie M
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