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Maybe I should have just created a generic "stuff I won from the Vertigo: Graphic Content blog" thread. I just won another hardcover book, the first American Vampire collection. I had already read a library copy, but it will be nice to have one of m
Read more…I have complained before about those who use the term “story arc” interchangeably with “story”. The recent release of “The Great Darkness Saga” in hardcover is a good example of the difference. “The Great Darkness Saga” is a five-part story from Legi
Read more…We were talking about the current "3" storyline in Fantastic Four recently. If anyone would like to sample the work of current writer Jonathan Hickman on the series, two of his issues (##570-571) are currently among the online free digital comic sele
Read more…Bruce or Batman...who is real?
I like his answers...a lot.
Read more…I have all the Black Centipede/Vionna Valis novels and short stories
posted at my blog, and they are available for free downloading as pdf
files!
"The Optimist Book One"
"Vionna and the Vampires"
"Forty Whacks"
"Wisconsin Death Trip"
"Close Encounter
I've been thinking more and more lately about how much I do that is bad for the Earth. One thing I decided this morning, just out of the blue, is to stop bagging my comics. I'm not sure why I do bag them. It's just, well, what we collectors do. Thing
Read more…Newsarama has been doing a series of articles about Captain Marvel. I havne't read any of them yet but I thought some of you here may find it interesting. You can find it here.
The article I linked to is the most current one but there's links to the
Read more…This story was originally plotted, penciled and inked in 1998 for the eighth issue of the series Marvel Universe. In his brief introduction, writer Roger Stern explains that the two or three pages of script he had roughed out were “lost a couple of c
Read more…By request: earlier AND with numbers!!!!
1.First I would like to thank Caleb at Every Day Is Like Wednesday for for doing some counting for me: 12 Captain America titles, and that doesn't even include the Avengers titles he appears in.
2. I
Lee Falk's creations , the King Features Syndicate characters The Phantom and Mandrake The Magician , are still published as syndicated strips , but I don't know , for instance , how many people here follow those versions , even .
There have been m
Read more…Can anyone here , please , point me to confirmation that the " Casper And The Spectrals " TPB , collected the first trhree issues of the magizine format miniseries plus some extra material , is actually coming out ?
A few weeks back , at a comics s
Read more…My fingers are crossed that people will order the HOPE: The Hero Initiative anthology http://tinyurl.com/26gqws5 because artist Mario Gonzalez http://www.wyliman.com/ and I are in it, and because it's for a great cause (The Hero Initiative).
It's i
I gave a pass to this collection when it was originally released in 2008 because only half of it dealt with the classic (i.e., pre-1953) period. However, I’ve since come to realize that quite a bit of the “new” material (i.e., post-1973) which I have
Read more…Your local paper may or may not be carrying this story, but you can certainly find it on the Internet.
Basically, all those cups from the 1970s and 1980s are chocked full of lead where they were painted.
It's unclear, but it looks like the cups now car
