At the lovely Comic Store West, the wife, daughter and I picked up:
HeroClix War Machine -- Nice, and a powerful playing piece to boot!
FCBD Iron Man -- Daughter selected this.
FCBD DC Kids -- Daughter selected this.
FCBD Bongo Comics -- Both my daughter
I took Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn out of the library the other week. What a mistake. It wasn't so much a mistake to take the book out of the library; I'm glad that I was able to sample the story without paying for it. But it was definitely a mistake
Read more…My Iron Man collection is pretty much limited to the first Michelinie era - I have all but a handful of IM 116-154. Other than that, almost nothing. I recently browsed through an Iron Man index, released no doubt to coincide with the recent movie. It
Read more…So far, Aquaman is my favorite character to follow in Brightest Day.
Brian Cronin over at Comics Should Be Good is compiling lists of the greatest stories ever for characters and writers. You can check out the details here http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/04/25/the-greatest-_____-stories-ever-told/
The vo
Read more…Annnnd today was the day I stopped reading super-hero comics. One that I won't name finally broke me. Collection stops as of now. No joke.
He said it was just the last book in a long line of disappointing ones...
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What do you think? I've read all but the Crumb version of Genesis. The nine I've read are all amazing works of art and should be in every library.
Read more…I am a fan of Marvel’s “cosmic” characters but I haven’t been following them for some years now (not since 2004, I reckon). I’ve tried to keep my mind in over the years [including Thunderbolts #100 (2006), the Civil War: The Return one-shot (2007) an
Read more…Sad to say, the history of comics has more than one story of creators being treated badly, or editors and other company suit types behaving badly in general. I'm sure we can all think of some examples we've read about, or heard about at cons or where
Read more…I admit to not having read more than a few dozen issues of his series (due to one particular artist whose style I hated) but should have some idea, surely? Cos arch enemies tend to recur.
DC seem recently to have suggested Deathstroke the Tosser, b
Read more…Jim Shooter has revamped Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom yet again in a new series from Dark Horse Comics. The first issue was intriguing, but how often can one reinvent the wheel? Shooter’s first revamp was so spot-on that comparisons of the two are i
Read more…Bleeding cool has the story, and Dagwan's store get mentioned! http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/06/19/midnight-openings-planned-for-scott-pilgrim-vol-6/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BleedingCool+%28Bleeding+Cool+C
Read more…The original Seven Soldiers of Victory (7SV) appeared in "Leading Comics" #1-14 in the Golden Age. They were the Shining Knight, The Vigilante, the Green Arrow and Speedy, the Star Spangled Kid and (God help us all) Stripesy and the Crimson Avenger w
Read more…So, I was reading some Marvel promo thing for Spider-man's Grim Hunt thingie coming up. It has a history of Kraven the Hunter in it, and that is when I learned that he and the Chameleon are half-brothers. Has this always been the case, and I just nev
Read more…And here's what you missed in the final issue of Siege...Siege!
Now that DC has finally decided which “Legion of Three Worlds” it is going to be following for the foreseeable future…
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