And if so, how would you characterize it? Are there any blurbs or word balloons where the omniscient narrator or characters talk about the power/responsibility/nature of the press? Were there continuing characters, and if so, were they heroic charact
Read more…Had an unexpected day off, so I plunged into several Marvel cartoons someone gave me on VHS, including 1960's Cap and Sub-Mariner, 1966 Spider-Man, 1981 Spider-Man (the solo, not Amazing Friends), 1982 Hulk, RoboCop (huh?) and even the 1996 version o
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I want to live in a world where this is a real comic...
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Check out this exchange between Newsarama interviewer Chris Arrant and Evan Dorkin, in the new interview about Beasts of Burden:
Read more…Nrama: This might sound like an odd question, but as comics fans we’ve come to expect it – chances of any other crossover
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DC fans and parents...there's a lot to like here...
Read more…Andrew, in the latest Comic Buyers Guide, #1666, in your look at the Brightest Day characters, you seem to cast light on the spread in Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #3 which confused the heck out of anyone who read it.
Here's what I'm preordering from my LCS:
Dark Horse - I love the character, Solomon Kane, so I'm getting the new collection trade, Death's Black Riders. Of course, Usagi Yojimbo will be on my buy pile.
DC Comics - I've been disappointed by a lot
Read more…“Hey, True Believer! Remember how great the Captain America comic-strip was that ran nationally back in the 1940s that — what’s that? You never heard of it? Well, allow us to take you back through the mists of time when the USA was on the verge of wa
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In this first article, he discusses the Golden Age through Claremont's Uncanny X-Men...the second part will begin with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.
Read more…Hey, kids, welcome to Brightest Day! Can't wait for that parent to come into the shop with a seven year old looking for comics starring that cool Green Arrow from the Brave and the Bold cartoon!
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Major, major flashbacks...
Read more…I took yesterday off to give myself and extended Memorial Day weekend, in addition to going to see Iron Man 2 I made it to Lone Star Comics for the first time in years (really to buy some dice). I did find a couple of deals there that I just couldn't
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On Monday (4/19) I'm interviewing Andy Diggle, co-creator and writer of Vertigo's The Losers, which will premier as a major motion picture on Friday (4/23). This is for the newspaper column. Anything you folks would like
Archie #609 - Wow, the for-now ending to Archie and Val's romance was very well done and implies that she, not Betty or Veronica, could be Archie's true love. Nice.
Secret Avengers - Gave it chance because of Brubaker and Hank McCoy and really, re
Read more…Kevin will be a new student introduced in the Veronica title according to artist Dan Parent. Veronica really likes him, but can't understand why he isn't gaga over her. Jughead knows, but he cautions Kevin not to tell Veronica...primarily because h
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Hey, gang!
I'm supposed to interview Paul Levitz about his upcoming Legion of Super-Heroes run (his third -- and the second time he's followed Jim Shooter!) for Comics Buyer's Guide. So what should I ask him?
In other interviews he's stated that he's p
