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
Read more…MORE FREE JUNK!
Comic book fans! You probably think you know the
story behind Dr. Fredric Wertham, "Seduction of the Innocent," the
Comics Code Authority, and the fall of the EC Comics horror line.
You're
wrong. The truth can finally be told. Join the
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
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