Wow, what a great year for Flash Gordon comics! First there was Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon, an over-sized hardcover which reprinted all of that artist’s work on the character over the decades. After that, was the Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Vo
Read more…I'm thinking of getting a few of the Marvel Essentials. I'm leaning towards Marvel Team-up vol. 1 and Marvel two-in-one vol. 1. Or maybe two-in-one 1 & 2. What do you guys think? Is that too much team-ups? I'm looking for something light and fun and
Read more…Return of Bruce Wayne #6 - Good lord, Morrison wrapped everything happening in the last few years of DC in one book...and it made sense. With this, Batman is the center of the DC universe...hell, he may have created it!
Knight and Squire #2 - Paul
Read more…Dead Avengers is a three-issue mini-series which spun out of Chaos War. It features Captain Marvel, the Swordsman, Vision, Dr. Druid, the female Yellowjacket and Deathcry. If you’d’ve pressed me, I wouldn’t’ve been able to identify the latter two as
Read more…Green Lantern is perhaps my favorite DC character, but I haven’t been reading his adventures in his regular title for several years now. I picked up this one-shot for two reasons: 1) the unlikely pairing of two such different heroes, and 2) the creat
Read more…In the JLA Revisited thread I made mention that I had stopped reading comics around 96. So Chris asked the question:
Jason, if you dropped out of comics around '96, what brought you back?
I ask because I suspect that many of us have similar storie
I had no interest whatsoever in the premise of this series, but because I’m reading the three-issue Ant-Man & Wasp series I thought I’d pick this one up to see the next phase in Henry Pym’s storied career. I had very low expectations, but I came away
Read more…CBR tells us that CrossGen is back, starting with Ruse (bringing back Waid and Guice on it, too!) and Sigil by Mike Carey and Leonard Kirk. Keen!
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My Christmas presents arrived and I opened them to discover that Thing From Another World included a special holiday gift certificate. Except I don't need to buy any more trades right now because I already got a bunch as a Christmas pres
Read more…Is today's strip hacking on Veterans' Day, or did someone in the Jim Davis Organization not pay attention to what day this strip was going out?
Read more…The Captain's Rock the vote thread on Top Cow's Pilot Season books has dropped off the home page, so I thought I'd add a link here.
Read more…About a week and half ago I traveled down to Austin, TX for Wizard World
Austin Comic Con. Which I thought was note worthy since outside of
giant "W" there was nothing in the literature and signage that denoted
its affiliation with Wizard.
My highlig
Well, I am bored at work, so I am going to a little write-up on District X vol. 1. This is the "Mr. M "storyline. I was originally going to say something along the lines of, “I don’t know why I didn’t initially buy this series…” Actually, I know exa
When I was still in high school, I used to buy the heck out of the quarter-bins from my first LCS. But the first time I paid REAL money for an older comic which it was then, it was $15 for Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 (signed by Neal Freakin' Adams)
Read more…He's dead and in hell in his book.
He lost one of his best sidekicks and became a vampire in X-Men.
He just lost his best friend in Uncanny.
He was possessed by a demon and had to listen to Deadpool in X-Force.
He has to face a 15 year old Peter Park
Read more…Dan Parent announced at NY ComicCon that the character which led to the first second printing in Archie history will get a 2011 four issue mini.
Read more…I loved this thing and these annotations only make it more awesome...
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In November's Batman/Catwoman: Follow the Money one-shot, Howard Chaykin uses as the bad guy Golden Age Bat-villain, the Cavalier, out of the blue, really. The Romantic Rogue has a reputation of being a lightweight character, a reputation well-deserv
Read more…Don't think I've seen this mentioned here yet, but DC announced yesterday that JMS will be stepping down from his writing gigs on Superman and Wonder Woman to focus on a sequel GN to Superman: Earth One.
Given that they were banking on him for these b
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Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine
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Usagi Yojimbo
20th Century Boys
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