Today on his Facebook page, Kurt Busiek tells us the folks from Westboro Baptist "Church" (quote marks mine) will protest at the San Diego Comic Con on Thursday. I won't give these people the satisfaction of linking to their site, but it's there on
Read more…http://www.downtowncomics.com/profiles/blogs/celebrate-avengers-day-with?xg_source=facebook
If you live around Indy...
Read more…The great Al Williamson passed away recently. Obituaries can be found here
and here, as well as in many other places. Rest in Peace. Read more…X-Men Forever is the only X-title I currently read, but I have been considered dropping it at the end of volume one because I’d fallen behind, thus violating my first rule of comic collecting, “Don’t buy what you don’t read.” I caught up with the mos
Read more…Not a dream, not a what if, not an imaginary story... http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/07/08/the-cover-to-action-comics-894-will-surprise-you/#more-9961
Read more…I recently read the first trade of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man by Peter David & Mike Wieringo (Thank you Lone Star Comics).During the last story arc there was an Uncle Ben from another timeline introduced. In his time Aunt May died and he had li
Read more…I know there are a lot of Scott Pilgrim fans on this board. Finally, I gave the series a shot. The movie trailer intrigued me and the concept of the series is one that I was pretty sure I'd like. I had flipped through the books before and it wasn't s
Read more…The jump from $2.99 to $3.99 is pretty substantial. First it was special issues with cardstock covers, then it was Marvel's most popular books, and then it was DC books (in the case of ongoing titles, they boosted value by adding backups, although so
Read more…When I was in the seventh grade I once used $35 of my paper route money to buy fifty issues of The Avengers between #9 and #104. In retrospect, it turned out to be one of the best comic book purchases of my life. Although the lot included all of the
Read more…I'm up to issue #50 of Amazing Spider-Man, as research for my thesis, paying particular attention to Daily Bugle scenes and newspaper headlines. And yet, I have to find the fabled "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?" headline.
Does it only exist in the pop
I've already posted about Fables & Bill Willingham in the Fables "Great Crossover" thread (since it was the active Fables thread). He was the guest I was most interested in, but there was an especially rich guest list this year. Top of the rest was
Read more…He was at the Midtown Comics near Times Square when I was in there on Saturday. I remember thinking, "Here I am, who's never read a single thing of his, and I bet there's a dozen guys on the board who'd love to meet him."
Read more…Over on the "Questions" thread, one query was, "Where has Clark Kent been while Superman was on New Krypton? Was that explained?" Among the responses was this from Rob Staeger:
(Not the original graphic novel; the recent Marvel Premiere Classic reprint.)
Read more…http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/
Very, very cool...
Read more…Over at the Comics Should Be Good website, they have a regular Friday feature called "Comic Book Legends Revealed". The most recent one was all about the late Arnold Drake. Here's a link:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/04/22/comic-boo
