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.
Read more…"Where?" says I.
"COMICON!" He shouts.
All he said was he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows someone who was able to score him a pass for today. Once he got there, he sat in on a discussion with Stan Lee (which in and of itself is cooler that coo
Back in the 1980's, one of my favorite titles was All-Star Squadron. I thought It was great up until issue 50 or so. But in 1985, along came Crisis On Infinite Earths, and it really played havoc with this title and its modern day companion Infinity I
Read more…I figure, why not set up a thread for us to cheer the verious bits of news coming out of San Diego this weekend.
My first fave (and possibly the one to beat for the whole con): Astro City's been optioned as a movie, and Kurth Busiek gets first pass at
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Why Tubby is the uncle to David Brent, Sarah Silverman, and Larry David...
Read more…In December, Marvel is releasing the hardcover "Avengers: The Coming of the Beast" which reprints #137-140 and #145-146 (Jl-O'75) and (Ma-Ap'76). Those issues are vivid ones from my childhood so I will walk through them again with some comments. Of c
Read more…Ever get a craving ... an urge ... a yen ... a whim ... to dip deep into a dusty longbox and read something you haven't read in years?
For no discernible reason whatsoever?
Something that may have no particular redeeming qualities except, maybe,
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I read a bunch of stuff last night, but the three comics I enjoyed the most were Batgirl, New Avengers, and Archie.
Batgirl - I've been reading good things about this new series on the net for awhile, especially regarding Bryan Miller's use of
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