Hi everybody,
It's been awhile since I've been here, but I thank those of you who have taken the time to friend me on Facebook.
Anyhow, onto the topic at hand. I am the editor of Panels for Primates, an ongoing charity anthology at http://act-i-
Read more…When I was in the seventh grade I had a friend, Billy, who was in the eighth grade. Billy didn’t know too much about comics but was eager to learn. When I showed him my stack of Marvel and DC treasury editions he was a little disappointed that the ar
Read more…I had little interest in the new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents series until I read in a recent “DC Nation” column that it is to be a continuation of the original series rather than a re-start. That’s cool, I think. It inspired me to work my way completely th
Read more…In the current issues of Thor, our Hammer-Hurler is in a bad mood. Asgard is in ruins, Odin is dead (at least for now) and the Thunder God is sulking. He pushes Sif away when she tries to comfort and does the same to the Warriors Three when they try
Read more…DC has just announced a Red Lantern Corps ongoing to launch later this year, written by Peter Milligan. Thoughts?
Read more…Might as well start now. Put anything that stands out while reading you're favorite comics this year. It'll make it easy during the nomination process in December.
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Read more…The A/V Club apologizes to its readers because another website, Comics Comics, flags its review of the book Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth as being bogus, owing to the fact that not only is the book not published yet, its still in th
Read more…I've been thinking for a while of doing some reviews of pre-Silver Age features, covering their whole runs or periods within their runs. "Pre-Silver Age Reviews" reviews would be a clumsy title for a thread, so I've titled it "Golden Age Reviews" ins
Read more…... is Brightest Day #14.
I'm not kidding. I'm not exaggerating. I don't mean "this week" or "this month." This comic was so dramatic, so emotional, so life-affirming.
(spoilers)
Boston Brand has spent this series trying to find "the chosen one" a
I didn't want to completely threadjack Figserello's JLA retrospective so I decided to move part of the discussion over here.
I'm still surprised that that period of 'reconstruction' wasn't a high-selling point for comics. Just cause I was buyin
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I'm considering picking up Tomb of Dracula in trades at some point. It might not be soon, but I at least want to add it to my wish list. Should I get the Essential Tomb of Draculas in black and white, or the color trades that are coming
Read more…OK, Scott's plan to make vampire Wolerine his secret weapon was great, but having a priest bless Iceman, creating a holy water superhero? Genius!
Read more…They're one of the "big five" now. Here are the March comics from IDW
Read more…Trashed, traded, lost or sold - I was thinking of items I have collected through the years that for one reason or another are no longer in my possession but wish they were -
- a nearly complete set of Batman and Detective Comics 1964 - 1966, covering
Read more…With his return in Chaos War: Dead Avengers, the Swordsman has reappeared in the Marvel Universe after thirty-five years. His death was the first true Avenger fatality and one that had, until now, stuck. The French Fencer debuted in Avengers #19 (Au'
Read more…For a long time — I wanna say at least as far back as immediately post-Crisis; I'm not sure how actively it was stated before then — it was more-or-less established canon that the start of the superhero age (the appearances of Superman and Batman & e
Read more…What's behind door number two. It's DC Comics solicitations for March.
Read more…With the January 2011 releases, most DC Comic books are now at $2.99; a 32 page, full cover book with only 20 pages of story/art instead of 22 of the last decade +.
At first I thought the two pages would revert back to advertising, but according to a
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