General Comics Discussions (6880)
An Uncle Ben Question
I recently read the first trade of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man by Peter David & Mike Wieringo (Thank you Lone Star Comics).During the last story arc there was an Uncle Ben from another timeline introduced. In his time Aunt May died and he had li
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Scott Pilgrim
I know there are a lot of Scott Pilgrim fans on this board. Finally, I gave the series a shot. The movie trailer intrigued me and the concept of the series is one that I was pretty sure I'd like. I had flipped through the books before and it wasn't s
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A Thought on Comic Book Pricing
The jump from $2.99 to $3.99 is pretty substantial. First it was special issues with cardstock covers, then it was Marvel's most popular books, and then it was DC books (in the case of ongoing titles, they boosted value by adding backups, although so
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Avengers Masterworks Vol. 10 (The Kree/Skrull War)
When I was in the seventh grade I once used $35 of my paper route money to buy fifty issues of The Avengers between #9 and #104. In retrospect, it turned out to be one of the best comic book purchases of my life. Although the lot included all of the
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Spider-Man: Threat, Menace or Myth?
I'm up to issue #50 of Amazing Spider-Man, as research for my thesis, paying particular attention to Daily Bugle scenes and newspaper headlines. And yet, I have to find the fabled "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?" headline.
Does it only exist in the pop
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Heroes Con 2010
I've already posted about Fables & Bill Willingham in the Fables "Great Crossover" thread (since it was the active Fables thread). He was the guest I was most interested in, but there was an especially rich guest list this year. Top of the rest was
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Gilbert Hernandez Sighting
He was at the Midtown Comics near Times Square when I was in there on Saturday. I remember thinking, "Here I am, who's never read a single thing of his, and I bet there's a dozen guys on the board who'd love to meet him."
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Would Perry White keep Superman's secret?
Over on the "Questions" thread, one query was, "Where has Clark Kent been while Superman was on New Krypton? Was that explained?" Among the responses was this from Rob Staeger:
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The Death of Captain Marvel
(Not the original graphic novel; the recent Marvel Premiere Classic reprint.)
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What if Batman could team up with everybody?
http://braveandboldlost.blogspot.com/
Very, very cool...
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Veteran DC writers in the late 60's - blackballed or not?
Over at the Comics Should Be Good website, they have a regular Friday feature called "Comic Book Legends Revealed". The most recent one was all about the late Arnold Drake. Here's a link:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/04/22/comic-boo
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Toy Story 3 question
For those of you who have seen Toy Story 3. Which version did you see it in, 3D or 2D? Which would you recommend. Lately I've seen a few movies in 3D and have been less than impressed. I think I may see the film today but wasn't sure if I should give
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The purchase of ten.
I had to put off buying comics so that when I did make it into my LCS last week there was three weeks worth waiting for me. I still couldn't afford to clear the shelf so I selected just ten. Ten comics that I thought would be the best among all comic
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Krypto's Rejuvenation
I remember hearing about a story (in the 70s?) that Krypto the Superdog was getting old and unable to control his powers and Superman had to put him down!! But instead he got younger again! I think it involved Jimmy but I never seen it nor have it me
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I love Rags Morales' work, but...
...I really wish he'd get some references when he's doing a period piece like First Wave. As gorgeous as the art is, about the only things that he used to indicate a late '30s time frame were the double-breasted police uniforms and the fedoras on th
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Slott's Spider-man & FF Question
Spoilers for Spider-man 24/7 HC follow...
So I've just read Spider-man 24/7 HC. One of the stories is a 2-parter where the FF take Spider-man into the Macroverse and the Human Torch is miffed that Spider-man doesn't share his ID with them, and he
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