More powerful team: the original X-Men, or the Legion of Substitute Heroes?
Read more…So, I wasn't going to buy this. But I like big summer stories and I'm not buying Fear Itself...and I like Johns and Kubert. So...
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Read more…Faced with the challenge to lead a little discussion, I'll start with something that's been on my mind for a bit, something I hope other people might be willing to chime in with their own examples, too: Covers that were so compelling, you just HAD to
Read more…If 'Mazing Man fought Sgt. Rock, who would get the girl? Or the Ice Cream Soldier? Or the Guido?
Read more…...is Power Girl #24. It says more about the current state of politics, bigotry, and fear in the United States than anything I've read in years.
Read more…Over the past few years I've bought more than a few back issues. Actually I see nearly complete sets of issues and decide to buy them for a really good price. Then I spend years trying to fill in the gaps. I've decided to start these threads to help
Read more…If Jack Kirby had been Spider-Man's artist instead of Steve Ditko, would the title have had the same success?
Read more…Johnny Comet is a fascinating failure. It is the first of two (so far) volumes in the Vangard Classics: Frank Frazetta series. Frazetta’s Johnny Comet line work is exquisite, but the “stories” exist only as a framework upon which to hang the gorgeous
Read more…This is the thread to talk about bagging, boarding, filing etc. Yeah it's kind of boring but I saw we started discussing this sort of thing on a number of threads. We can just use this to ask questions or discuss habits.
I have a few questions. I'm
Read more…The other day, I was at my friendly neighborhood comics shop, shooting the breeze with another customer and the store clerk. The conversation turned to the best inkers, and the other customer named his top three: Josef Rubenstein, Dick Giordano, and
Read more…I want to discuss the degree to which we see standard comic books - and other formats for comic book material - distributed to non-comics shop , or " newsstand , accounts - Um , stores . Retail outlets .
Also , I want to discuss " magazine-sized "
Read more…I found a copy , for $5 , of the 1982 " Beano Book " , the annual of The Beano , one of the two ( I believe by now . ) " traditional " UK market anthologies of kid's material . ( " THe Dandy " is the other one . )
I presume that this came out in th
Read more…With all the curiosity, anger, suspense, excitement and out-right dread over DC's upcoming brand new changes that will have universe-shaking events that will alter our heroes forever, I thought that it would only be fitting to discuss when the same t
Read more…As I pondered a bit about the original X-Men, I remembered how the Beast got stronger, faster and hairier in Amazing Adventures #11. Jean Grey was improved from Marvel Girl to Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men #102. (And yes, I know about all the retcons but
Read more…I bought #22 of DOOM PATROL recently , having bought this series from its start but having fallen away over the last few months , about when they switched to 32 pages/$2.99 .
I ( Spoilers ! ) was not real suprised to find that this was the last iss
Read more…... what, exactly, is the difference between "General Comics Discussions" and "In Depth Comics Discussions"?
Read more…I thought we already had a thread started about Fear Itslef but I couldn't find it.
This thread can be for discussion of Marvel's Summer Event, Feat Itself and it's many tie-ins and miniseries.
So far the daughter of the Red Skull, Sin, has uncov
Read more…I really like the DC Comics Presents format, yet this is only the second one I’ve bought. The price took me by surprise when I bought the first, but when one considers the cost of today’s comics ($3 or $4 apiece), $8 for four issues of content is not
Read more…I haven't seen this discussed, but it's a few weeks old, so I may've missed it...
The podcast Coverville, which is a music show of all cover songs, did a special Free Comic Book Day episode, The Comic Book Cover Story. I'm a bit behind in my podcas
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