Quoted from the introduction to volume one of Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series: “One of the things I tried to do [with Dark Shadows] and with most of my comics was to bring as much of the real world as I could — to try to write out of the h
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I hope Kal throws an awesome party for ya!
Read more…I read last week’s freebie Spider-Man Saga over the weekend and I think I now understand not only why I myself have rejected the post “Brand New Day” cycle of stories, but also why so many readers a decade ago rejected the so-called “Clone Saga.” In
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I think most of us with kids have been there...
Read more…The art was good through-out. "Armistice Night" made me laugh out loud, which very few comics manage to do. "The Hell Above Us" and "Private Parker Sees Thunder Lizards" were OK but weren't especially distinctive from any number of similar stories
Read more…The current story arc ended with #870. I was impressed with the work of David Hine and Scott McDaniel. I'm glad that Batman is starring in Detective again. Gotham City was torn apart by roving Joker and Batman "gangs", all part of a very sinister pla
Read more…I must admit I’ve never read even a single issue of The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor. But the archival reprints of old Gold Key material from Dark Horse and other publishers have piqued an interest in the output of this company that is not one of t
Read more…I've been making my way through Showcase Presents: Booster Gold for the second time (nothing earth-shattering, but fun ad solid all the way), and I was struck by something, and I was wondering how others felt about this at the time.
As I recall, when
I do not purport to be an expert in Native American Indian culture, but according to William Stout, “Turok and Andar were Plains Indians, specifically from the Mandan tribe. Their visual depiction was fairly accurate for a comic book; Turok and Andar
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This a great, very thoughtful review of the second issue of this Married Archie series...
Read more…Kid Eternity was a big star over at Quality Comics during the 40s, being featured in Hit Comics #25-60 (D'42-S'49) and 18 issues of his own titles (Spr'46-N'49). A good career in anyone's eyes. In fact, based on popularity and longevity, he should ha
Read more…It was last year that I attended Big Apple comic convention & got the pictures of the Batmobile (which can be found posted on the main site here). A friend sent me this link;
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-batmobile-replicas.html
I have
Read more…This is a great time to be a Captain America fan. With two ongoing series written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America and Secret Avengers) several limited series either already begun or on the way, I thought it would be nice to have a thread in place to
Read more…IDW is publishing some of the most consistently good Star Trek comic books ever. Several months ago, although she refeuses to watch them with me, my wife bought a DVD set of the TOS with enhanced special effects for me. I tried working my way through
Read more…Because seriously, it could happen.
I've been hearing really good things about Paul Cornell's Luthor stories, but I've been resisting it so far, because Luthor doesn't really interest me (his evil peaked in that diner years ago). But now there's gonna
The latest issue of Jonah Hex, #61, features a character we haven't seen in many a moon: Hex's first wife, Mei Ling!
You'll want to check this out on Bob Rozakis' blog... "The high cost of being a comics fanboy"
http://bobrozakis.blogspot.com/2010/10/high-cost-of-being-comics-fanboy.html
One of the admins ought to ask Mr. Rozakis if he'd consider doing a regular (mon
As I stated, I will re-read (or in some cases, really read) Grant Morrison's epic Seven Soldiers saga.
First is Seven Soldiers #0 (Ap'05). Has it been five years already?
It begins in Slaughter Swamp, birthplace of Solomon Grundy and already the
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