It all started here...
And it ends here...
Seems like a nice bookend. Anyway...not to panic anyone (especially my local shop owner...hi, Doug)...I'll still be at the store every Wednesday to pick up some comics...but I'm not keeping an
Read more…What do you think of Marvel's point one initiative, in which they insert jumping-on issues between regular issues of a series? I've heard retailers complain about the troubles of filing it (which was also true of 0 issues and Minus One issues). I'm
Read more…I don’t mean to reopen old wounds (yes I do), but Day of Judgment is not the redemption of Hal Jordan; Final Night is the redemption of Hal Jordan. As DCU Legacies #9 would have it, Final Night is the fall, but “Emerald Twilight” is the fall. IOW, “E
Read more…The first issue of The Defenders I ever saw was #12, at Droste Drug Store, my secondary source for comics books in those days. (My primary source was Ahmann’s Newsstand.) It was late 1973 and my favorite character was the Incredible Hulk. I already k
Read more…Like Robert Kirkman’s Ant-Man before it, Tim Seeley’s Ant-Man & Wasp is a series I like, but then hate myself for liking it. The storytelling is good, but the humor is decidedly adolescent. Henry Pym is the foil and Eric O’Grady is the fool. The lang
Read more…Hey, Legionnaires! I've got a tight turnaround for a Human Torch story, and one aspect is "Dumb/Immature Things Johnny Does or Did." Anyone got any favorite bonehead moments for the FF's Human Torch?
Thanks in advance!
Read more…Well here we are to my third box of unread comics. For those who haven't followed, theoretically I read a comic a day of comics I bought and never got around to reading. Some of them going back to the early '90s (well when I bought them I should say)
Read more…In The Avengers #120-123, our heroes took on the crime cartel known as Zodiac, based on the constellations. Now only two of these guys had super powers and they had some advanced weapondry from somewhere. But I vividly recall how seven of them, and n
Read more…In comments that I have made here and in Mister Silver Age's forum (may it rise again), I have asserted that the DC Multiverse (Pre-Crisis) had contained several versions of Plastic Man and, by extension, Blackhawk. But then I started thinking down a
Read more…I started researching this subject because I wanted to know more about what was going on at Marvel in the period leading up to the Fantastic Four's introduction and the couple of years after. In any post of this kind it's easy to make mistakes, so an
Read more…Back in the 1970s and '80s Marvel tried their best to integrate most of the licensed properties they obtained into the Marvel Universe proper - ROM, the Transformers (later retconned out), Godzilla, the Micronauts... they all existed in the mainstrea
Read more…In Justice League #54, the new JLA takes on a new version of longtime DC unattached villain, Eclipso. Of course, Eclipso debuted in House of Secrets #61(Au'63) and lasted until #80 (O'66). He was remembered for three main reasons. One, from #63 to #6
Read more…CBG has the story (which is amusing in its own right)
Read more…Most of the polls have closed, and the remaining ones will close in the next few minutes. There will most likely be some run-off polls. However, I'm ready to start announcing the winners here.
The following is my personal observations about the upcoming mega-event across the DC Universe.
Flashpoint is a five issue limited series looking at alternate timelines of past DC Comics events. Think of it as Elseworlds tales temporarily affecting
Read more…I miss my comics, but it remains financially infeasible for me to purchase them. While I've been able to work around this with the odd title or two I could find at the book store or the library, I'm missing much more than I'm catching.
But then I figu
Just some comments on Jan/Feb Bat-titles:
Detective Comics Annual #12/Batman Annual #28: The Two Batmen are in France. They set up the French representative of Batman, Inc, a new hero, Nightrunner. I have to admit that I was under-whelmed. Like the J
Read more…Recently read Ayako, by Osamu Tezuka. This is one of his more serious works, from the early 1970's. By "serious", I mean that there's none of the various sight gags that the Doc tended to include even in stuff like Phoenix or Buddha. I also don't s
Read more…Some fun clips of Conan hanging out with Bruce Timm at the Warner Animation Studio.
http://www.tbs.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=237436
http://www.tbs.com/video/index.jsp?oid=239470
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