Valiant treated Gold Key's Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. as something of a "Magnus: Year One" and they made their series a sequel, set beginning in 4001. I'm not sure that's the case with Dark Horse's series. It seems to me to be more of a ground l
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Read more…So I just finished Neil Young's Greendale, with script by Josh Dysart and art by the amazing Cliff Chiang, and... well, the art is by the amazing Cliff Chiang!
The art is gorgeous. Gorgeous! Here's a page:
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I think he's dead...if it was any other strip, I'd say it was a dream sequence...
Read more…I was born in 1969, so...
70s - Marvel's Star Wars comics
80s - Zot! by Scott McCloud (it started in the 80s)
90s - Starman by James Robinson
00s - Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
How about you?
Read more…Superman - "Grounded" began...see the big thread for thoughts
The X-Universe - Wow...Second Coming ended with a bit of "uh, oh" and a bit of hope. Scott disbanded X-Force, but Logan secretly created his own X-Force team. X-Force: Sex and Violence
Read more…"Marvel Premiere" and "Marvel Spotlight" were Marvel's 70s' version of "Showcase". Among the heroes featured were Hercules, the Warriors Three, Woodgod, the new Ant-Man, Paladin, the Falcon, the Scarecrow, Man-Wolf, Satana and Alice Cooper. I found i
Read more…I haven't bought any books from Comixology yet -- though I suspect it will be the way I catch up on Irredeemable and Incorruptible, and other Boom material that interests me -- but I was wondering if anyone knew why the last new releases on the Comix
Read more…Sometimes I feel a little unloved, being a Bronze Ager. With all the attention going either to the Silver Age or today's comics, I always think MY comics are getting ignored! So I ask any and all of you, what DC book that started or was revived in th
Read more…I've mentioned before that I must have the most common tastes in comics in America, because books I have medium or little interest in get canceled with such regularity. (Sometimes books that I DO like are canceled, but often I assumed they would beca
Read more…I've never liked the Taskmaster, because he snaps my suspension of disbelief like a garter in a cheap bordello.
I actually enjoyed his characterization in "Siege" -- it really rang true and involved me with the character. It's his super-power that bug
Recently, I found some Captain America issues in a dollar box. They were from the tail end of Volume One, all written by Mark Waid, issues 444 and 446 - 450. While I enjoyed the writing, the art was not to my liking ... Ron Garney, doing his best t
Read more…Is there a program (or online utility) that will simply create a basic bubble around the text you type in and then allow you to save it as a BMP or GIF so you can drop it on top of a picture? This seems like the simplest thing in the world but I've s
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So, it begins this week...JMS is taking Kal on a hard-travelin' hero journey across the country to reconnect after losing...again!...his people. Will it be awesome or cringe-y...or both? Let's take the trip together!
Read more…Wonder Woman - the Gail Simone/George Perez story...fantastic! Worth the price for that alone.
Secret Avengers - I was so psyched after the first issue...this one was so "blah" that I'm thinking of dropping it.
Action Comics - Lex is a much more
Read more…I went to a garage sale yesterday and they had a box of comics for 10$. I didn't go through them very far but what I did see was that I didn't have most of them but also wouldn't be keeping any. I'd just read them and pass them on. I decided that 10$
Read more…I went down my local on lunch today, and didn't see a single comic I wanted to buy. I hate these sparse weeks - good for the budget, though.
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