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
Read more…I’m not certain if this series is ongoing or limited or what, but it represents an opportunity for creators other than Dave Stevens to play around in the Rocketeer universe. Issue #1 features stories by John Cassiday, Mike Allred, and Kurt Busiek & M
Read more…I have decided to post this final item after replies I've received about some of my own posts - most recently from Dagwan, on the "Thor material published 2009-2011" and "Fear Itself."
My great sorrow is seeing things happening on this board that I
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In a recent blog post thread, Emerkeith Davyjack asked the following:
“… anyhow, CC, I thought from the heading that you might as well be list and describing, even if not reviewing, all the Thor stuff that has been published by Marvel in anticipat
Read more…‘Breed is probably my least favorite of Jim Starlin’s recent work (if the first two mid-nineties Bravura mini-series can be considered “recent”), but I liked the first issue of the third mini more than I remember liking any of the previous two (which
Read more…Let's make this a line for discussion of nespaper comic strip ( Web/whatever ones , too . ) , old , new.........hey .
I have moved from San Francisco to Berkeley and so my " local paper " has switched to the Oakland Tribune , which runs slightly di
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