http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/batman_yale_bruce_wayne.html Chip Kidd was a primary investigator. No word, as yet, if he knew Rory Gilmore's father or was a member of the Whiffenpoofs.
Read more…If Fantastic Four #1 had never started the Marvel comeback and Timely had ended with the monster comics. Then if Stan Lee had been asked over to DC - what titles could you have seen him take over?
I ask because I was thinking he would have been exc
Read more…MARVEL TALES became the last survivor of what I like to call the " Marvel's Miteist Reprints " era/line of titles when all of the others were cancelled , around the into-the-middish-80s , I believe .
Yes , I am referring to those 32-page titles tha
Read more…This can be a line for all comic book-y things - and related - involving the phrase " The Defenders " .
Most of all , I'm sure , there would be Marvel's Non-Team here , and their Bronze-into-the-um , it lasted through 1986 , didn't it , which was s
Read more…Joanne Siegel, wife of Superman co-creator and model for Lois Lane, died on Feb.12. In Newsday, it was told how she met Siegel and Joe Shuster in Cleveland in 1935 when she was hired to model as Lois for their at-the-time future newspaper strip. She
Read more…Stumbled onto it, context-less, and am intrigued. Anyone know where it came from or what's going on here?
Last nite , I was reading an ish of DC's LOONEY TOONS comic book , #194 . I buy it pretty regular .
Yes , that's coming up towards #200 , THAT irridate your lil' fanboy heart ?
Traditionally , comic-book versions of the Warner Brothers roup of pr
Read more…Here we go another month, and some more numbered thoughts for comics supposedly shipping in April.
1. Dark Horse Presents seems to be pulling out all of the stops for the first issue at least: Paul Chadwick and "Concrete", Frank Miller, Neal Adams,
Read more…Good afternoon. For those who don't know me, my name's Mike, and I'm a comics addict. On the old boards, I conducted a couple of polls to find what we thought were the greatest comics continuing and limited series of all time - someone may have an
Read more…Should comic book and strip reprints reprint " lesser " things , like advertisments and colorized/edited reprints ?
I just saw a listing on Amazon for Fantagraphics' Mickey Mouse newpaper strip reprints and a Boom! " Walt Disney's Comics And Storie
Read more…From Jason Aaron:
If I ever turn out to be one of those guys who only bitches and complains about comics, who only talks about them to tear them down and seems to never take any joy from the medium they claim to love, I hope somebody comes up and slRead more…
Gwen's just died...Pete breaks down...and Mary Jane reveals she's way more than a party girl.
Read more…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!
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