So I finally got the TPB of Batman: The Black Glove today, and on the cover it proclaims "The Prequel to Batman: RIP!" And that got me pondering a semantic point... It's always seemed to me that a prequel is a later-told story that precedes the even
Read more…(oh, you'll groan in a second) I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on two DC series from the 70's and early 80's - Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales. I don't much about either, except that "Western" for a time starred Jonah Hex before he g
Read more…It looks like the Sgt. Rock movie is back on, however it is now planned as a sci-fi movie. I'll pass.
Read more…Back in the Sixties, when the Superman Family were forever meeting/romancing doubles of themselves, I remember editor Mort Weisinger's lettercol telling us more than once that everyone on Earth has 17 doubles (so how many must there be across the uni
Read more…Another month, and some thoughts*:
I just read Cars: Radiator Springs #3 to Alex as his bedtime story. Well, I read it but I didn't understand half of it. I understood the English half just fine. It was the half in Italian that left me mostly clueless. Yep, this comic aimed at kids--A
Read more…Courtesy of Comic Book Resources Of biggest note to me: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comes to an end with #50. That will mark the second series I've collected entirely in trades.
Read more…We spent a lot of time on the previous board debating and discussing the Comics Should Be Good list of the top 100 comic book runs. Well, they're at it again, this time with a list of the top 100 comic book storylines. The master list can be found h
Read more…http://www.tcj.com/?p=1827 Fascinating stuff!
Read more…“Every… comic book version of the Bible that I’ve seen contains passages of completely made-up narrative and dialogue, in an attempt to streamline and ‘modernize’ the old scriptures, and still, these various comic book Bibles all claim to adhere to t
Read more…Has anyone read any of the following comic books?: Adventure Comics no. 4 http://ifanboy.com/comics/dc_comics/adventure_comics/4 Dark X-Men no. 1 http://marvel.com/catalog/DARK_X-MEN.2009.1 The Brave & The Bold no. 29 http://www.dccomics.com/dcu/c
Read more…Writer (and sometimes editor) Fabian Nicieza is 48 today.
Read more…I read all 31 (including #0) issues of John Byrne's X-Men over the weekend, almost accidentally. I bought the first volume of the Premiere Collection hardcover some time ago, and the second on shipped last week. I was waiting for all three, but I st
Read more…For me it's Greg Rucka's Stumptown...man, that was a great first issue. What about you?
Read more…I haven't been reading the books since Johns left, so I'm curious: Why did the JSA split into two groups? Was it the standard Outsiders/Cry For Justice rationale: "You're not proactive enough, so we're striking out on our own," or is there a differen
Read more…In the wake of Ultimatum, I've decided it might be interesting and/or fun to go back in time and read/re-read the Ultimate Marvel universe starting at the beginning, and I've decided to bring y'all along for the ride.
My plan is to more or less read
My biggest (and most pleasant) surprise of the week turned out to be my biggest disappointment. It’s not that this EYKIW was poorly written (by Tom DeFalco) or poorly drawn (by Ron Frenz) so much as it is a continuity implant that is wholly unnecessa
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