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…
Read more…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
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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
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